Sound

Year 4

Unit Overview

This project teaches children about sound and how sounds are made and travel as vibrations through a medium to the ear. They learn about pitch and volume and find out how both can be changed.

❇ MEMORABLE MOMENT

Investigations!

️✏️ WRITING OPPORTUNITIES

Questions, predictions, equipment list, method, results.

🌳 LEARNING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM

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Unit Sequence: Learning Intentions

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Scientific Enquiry: Investigations

  1. Can we block sound?

    • Use scientific vocabulary to report and answer questions about their findings based on evidence collected, draw simple conclusions and identify next steps, improvements and further questions.

    • Begin to choose which observations to make and for how long and make systematic, careful observations and comparisons, identifying changes and connections.

    • Construct operational simple series circuits using a range of components and switches for control.

    • Explain how sounds are made and heard using diagrams, models, written methods or verbally.

  2. How can we change a sound?

    • Use scientific vocabulary to report and answer questions about their findings based on evidence collected, draw simple conclusions and identify next steps, improvements and further questions.

    • Compare and find patterns in the pitch of a sound, using a range of equipment, such as musical instruments.

    • Explain how sounds are made and heard using diagrams, models, written methods or verbally.

  3. How far can sound travel?

    • Use scientific vocabulary to report and answer questions about their findings based on evidence collected, draw simple conclusions and identify next steps, improvements and further questions.

    • Compare how the volume of a sound changes at different distances from the source.

    • Take accurate measurements in standard units, using a range of equipment.

    • Compare and find patterns in the volume of a sound, using a range of equipment, such as musical instruments.

🏁 BIG FINISH

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📖 FOCUS TEXT(S)

The BFG by Roald Dahl.