All About SoundHunter College

Competency 13: Create effective digital presentations

Overview:After teaching this Unit, Students will be able to:

• Know that sound travels in waves

• Recognize different sounds for different objects e.g. “roar” belongs to a lion and “choo choo” belongs to a train

• Be able to discriminate between different types of sounds (high pitch (freq.), low (freq), loud (intensity), soft)

• Have an awareness about people who cannot hear at all and need another mode of communication or as well as others without Assistive Technology

Common Core Standards- Pre K

New York State Standards-Pre K

NYSS Contd.

• Cognition and Knowledge of the WorldScience:• Child makes predictions based on

background knowledge and previous scientific experience

• Child identifies cause and effect relationships

• Child verifies predictions by explaining “how” and “why”

• Child makes age-appropriate, logical conclusions about investigations

NYSS Contd.

NYSS Contd.

NYSS Contd.

Special Ed Standards

• Scientific Thinking-Poses questions, seeks answers and

develops solutions; observes, investigates and asks questions about the world around them around him/her; collects, records and describes data; compares, contrasts and classifies objects and events; uses equipment for investigation; makes and verifies predictions

Phew that’s it!

Ask children for prior knowledge of the subject:

• E.g. “What part of the body do we use to hear sounds with?”

• Answer: Your ears

Lesson 1- Intro: Text

The ear is divided into 3 parts:

1)Outter Ear

2)Middle Ear

3)Inner Ear

How do our ears work:

Process of Hearing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkPj4IGbmQQ&feature=related

How the Human Ear Works

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCyz8-eAs1I&feature=related

Lesson 2: How is Speech/Language produced:

• We breathe in air• Air passes through your vocal

cords• Vocal Cords in throat vibrate

(tactile approach)

Lesson 3:“Doppler Effect”:• Activity: “Near and Far”

Construct a megaphone by making a cone with heavy paper. Point the megaphone at your classmate. Whisper through the megaphone with your classmate walking towards you until they hear you. Whisper again without the megaphone. Can your classmates hear you?

Responses recorded (SmartBoard or WhiteBoard)

“Loud and Clear”•

• Construct a string phone using two cups and a string. Punch a hole in the bottom center of each cup, attach one end of the string to each hole and tie the end to a paper clip to prevent the string from slipping from the hole. Pull the string tight, and hold the phone on the side of each cup but do not touch the bottom of the cups or the string. Whisper until the other person can hear you. Now whisper with the same loudness without using the string phone. What do you observe?

Lesson 4: Resonance

Resonance- the result if the driving (forced) frequency and the natural frequency of vibration are the same. – Yahoo Answers UK and Ireland http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080110020639AA4G7QT

Sound Shatters Glass• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17tqXgvCN0E

Voice Breaks Glass• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amuPoPkAlx8&

feature=related

Tacoma Bridge Collapse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw

Lesson 5: Pay Attention!!

• The “Walking Game”

• “Broken Telephone”

What’s That Noise? (Computer)

Listening Lotto Sounds Games:

Lesson 6: Guess Who?:

• Blindfold one student and see if he/she can figure out who is talking to them (teacher, therapist, classmate, parent)

• Can try to trick them by disguising voice

Sample Worksheets What type of sound will this object make?

Lo ud Soft

Does the object make a sound?

Yes NO

Lesson 7: Music• Strike up the Band!

• Music all around the World

Make Your Own Music

• Bottle Activity

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2YSo8Z_-a4

Lesson 8: Healthy ears keep you balanced (Vestibular System)

Problems that can affect our ears/body:

• 1. Ear Infections- (Otitus Media)• 2. “Swimmer’s” Ear • 3. Buildup of Wax• 4. Fluid in the ears also disrupts your balance

How we can protect our ears:

• Avoid loud music when possible

• Concerts

• Ipods, MP3’s

• Cotton Balls

Headphones: Insert vs. Aural

Lesson 9: How do deaf people hear/communicate?

• Sign Language, Facial Expression

• Lip Reading

• Cochlear Implant

• Hearing Aid

How Cochlear Implants Sound:

• http://www.utdallas.edu/~loizou/cimplants/cdemos.htm

Sound and Fury : Deaf Culture with Sign Language

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvvDf4RUtc8Sound and Fury- 6 Years Laterhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKCuoESmLpk

Famous Deaf People

Marlee MatlinBeethovenHelen Keller

Great Texts:

Great Texts 2

Field Trip

House Ear Institute

http://www.hei.org/exhibit/

Per missio n Sl ip

Attention Parents: As many of you know, we just finished a Unit on Sound/Hearing. I have arranged for the children to go on an amazing trip to: The House Ear Institute on Tuesday May 1st 2012. You are welcome to join your children on this trip just please check off the box at the bottom. However, in order for us to have a smooth and enjoyable time, we are asking for parents to be chaperones on the trip. Please check the other box on the bottom if you can. We will provide lunch and snack so none is necessary to send in with the children. However, we are asking for parents to send in $10 to pay for the cost of busing. Please sign at the bottom to allow your child to come on this amazing trip.

Lo o kin g fo r war d t o a gr ea t day!

-Miss Rochelle Weber I ________________________ allow my child___________________ to attend the trip to The House Ear Institute on Tuesday, May 1st 2012.

I will be coming on the trip

I can chaperone on the trip

Sample Permission Slip

References:• Elementary Science Core Curriculum Grades K-4 www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/mst/pub/elecoresci.pdfCommon Core Standards- Pre-kwww.p12.nysed.gov/.../common_core_standards/.../prekstandards_Senses Experiment: Model Eardrumhttp://kidshealth.org/kid/closet/experiments/experiment_eardrum.htmlActivity for Rainstick:http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/music/rainstick/Listening demos of acoustic simulations of cochlear implants

http://www.utdallas.edu/~loizou/cimplants/cdemos.htmHouse Ear Institutehttp://www.hei.org/exhibit/Hearing Worksheet-www.tlsbooks.com

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