This short unit is based on the Year 2 Australian national science curriculum. In it, students learn what sound is, how they hear it, the difference between musical sounds and noise and then learn how to create their own musical noise with instruments they make in class.
The unit has also been designed to help teach and reinforce the 'Science Inquiry' and 'Science as a Human Endeavour' skills outlined in the curriculum by incorporating experiments and scientific thinking throughout. These experiments are optional; you can either remove them to shorten the unit's running time or put them in their own time block to stretch the unit through a whole term.
Explore different actions to make sounds and how to make a variety of sounds, and recognise that sound energy causes objects to vibrate
Suggest and follow safe procedures to investigate questions and test predictions
Make and record observations, including informal measurements, using digital tools as appropriate
Compare observations with predictions and others’ observations, consider if investigations are fair and identify further questions with guidance
Write and create texts to communicate observations, findings and ideas, using everyday and scientific vocabulary
The key concepts in this unit include:
This presentation has been created to support lesson 1 of the Hearing Sounds unit. It allows the teacher to walk students through visual exa...
This presentation has been created to support lesson 2 of the Hearing Sounds unit. It allows the teacher to walk students through visual exa...
This engaging display poster explains how sound is made by vibrations. As these vibrations move around, they push the air around them, creat...
This presentation has been created to support lesson 3 of the Hearing Sounds unit. It allows the teacher to walk students through visual exa...
These charts show a wide variety of woodwind, brass, string and percussion musical instruments. There are 33 instruments in total. Students...
Students will identify a variety of musical instruments in this game of bingo.
This presentation has been created to support lesson 4 of the Hearing Sounds unit. It allows the teacher to walk students through visual exa...
This worksheet has been created to support lesson 1 of the Hearing Sounds Unit. It allows students to consolidate their knowledge by working...
This worksheet has been created to support lesson 1 of the Hearing Sounds Unit. It allows students to consolidate their knowledge by working...
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This worksheet has been created to support lesson 2 of the Hearing Sounds Unit. It allows students to consolidate their knowledge by working...
This worksheet has been created to support lesson 3 of the Hearing Sounds Unit. It allows students to consolidate their knowledge by working...
This worksheet has been created to support lesson 5 of the Hearing Sounds Unit. It allows students to consolidate their knowledge by working...
This quiz has been created as an assessment item for the Hearing Sounds unit, letting you check your students understanding at the end of th...
This rubric has been created as an assessment item for the Hearing Sounds unit, letting you assess your students’ understanding throughout t...
