Format
1. Program begins with introduction to Rocky Mountain National Park.
2. Students are introduced to sounds by playing a matching sound game.
3. Students act as sound scientists to participate in 3 experiments to explore the properties of sound.
4. Students explore how animals in Rocky use sounds and listen to sounds.
5. Students apply their knowledge to a new activity: drawing sound waves between objects making sound and listening to sound.
6. 5 to 10 minutes is left at the end for questions and answers.
Objectives
Students will be able to:
1. Understand how sound feels, moves, and looks like.
2. Conduct experiments to provide evidence of what sound feels, moves and looks like.
3. Act as animals to be able to understand how animals listen to sounds and use sounds.
4. Apply their knowledge to new activities with sound waves.
Standards Alignment
National Standards
LS1A K-2 -- Structure and function
LS1B K-2 -- Growth and development of organisms
PS4A K-2 -- Wave propertiesNGSS-1-PS4-1: Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
NGSS-1LS1-1: Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.
State Standards
Colorado Academic Standards
Science:
SC.1.1.1: Sound can make matter vibrate and vibrating matter can make sound.
SC.1.2.1: All organisms have external parts that they use to perform daily functions.
SC.2.1.1: Matter exists as different substances that have observable different properties.
Reading, Writing, and Communicating:
RW.1.1.1: Communicate using verbal and nonverbal language to express and receive information.
RW.1.3.3: Recount real or imagined, sequenced events that include details and a sense of closure
RW. 1.4.1: Participate in shared research and inquiry projects, writing, recalling, or gathering information to answer questions.