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Lesson
Plan:
Class Time Required: 2-3 class periods
Overview and Purpose:
In this lesson students learn
about sound, starting with a class discussion on the
nature of sound. First ask students to close their eyes.
“What do you hear?… List all the different
sounds you can hear right now.” Next ask students
to imagine throwing a rock in a pond. What would happen?
Then talk about sound waves, wavelength and frequency.
Create a bubble map on the board for different ideas.
Then draw a sound wave. Have students think about how
sounds are different in quality, loudness, and pitch,
what makes music and what makes noise. Talk about the
different types of musical instruments and how they
produce sounds. Show examples of hand instruments made
of recycled materials. Then ask students to pair up
to design and create a percussion, wind or stringed
musical instrument from found materials. The students
need to collect their own found materials. The classroom
should be equipped with some basic tools and art supplies.
After completion of project students will present to
the class their instrument and demonstrate its sound
California Content Standards:
Science Standards
Standard 4: Understands
the different forms and sources of energy and how they
change. This unit is on one energy form-sound.
Standard 10: Knows how
observed patterns and relationships are used to explain
scientific phenomena
Language Arts Standards
Standard 5: The student
uses speaking and listening strategies to enhance learning
General Goals:
1. The students will understand
the nature of sound.
2. Students will use speaking and listening strategies
to enhance learning.
Specific Objectives:
1. Students will understand the
nature of sound.
2. Students will learn identify to the different vibrations
or waves patterns sounds create.
3. Students will work collectively to problem solve.
4. Students will experiment with sound through the making
of a musical instrument.
Materials Needed:
Paints, paint brushes, rubber
bands, sticks, small pieces of wood, paper clips, pebbles,
cans, paper, string Tools: hammer, drill, nails, hot
glue gun, saw, tape measure
Rubric
Handout-Quiz
Activities :
1. Start with a classroom discussions
about sound.
2. Have students look on the internet at handmade instruments.
3. Show examples of handmade instruments.
4. Put out art materials and supplies with tools.
5. Ask students to pair up to plan, discuss and experiment
with materials to create a musical instrument.
6. Student presents their instrument and class decides
if it can make music or just noise.
Teaching Strategies
1. Class discussions.
2. Internet research.
3. Show student examples.
4. Students experiment with materials.
5. Students make presentation.
Thought provoking question:
The Nature of Sound --- When is
it noise? When is it music?
Do we all think the same sounds are music or does one
person hear music when another hears noise ?
There is a popular bumper sticker out that proclaims,
“Life is music. Everything else is the details.”
Is there any scientific basis for this quotation? How
might you prove or disprove this thesis?
Resources and References
http://ilsi.ltc1c.k12.il.us/minvent/teacher.html
http://www.op97.k12.il.us
Science text on sound.
“Notes to self…”
Make sure students use tools in
a safe manner.
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