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What can we hear?

Science Year 1
This unit is part of Year 1 Science Ourselves

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Objectives

Listen for sounds all around us - what can we hear with our ears? Can we hear the playtime bell? Consider simple factors affecting how well we hear the whistle and explore what happens when we change just one thing at a time.

Science Objectives
i) Identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which parts of the body is associated with which sense.

Working Scientifically

  1. Ask simple questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways.
  2. Perform simple tests.
  3. Use their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.
  4. Gather and record data to help answer questions.

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Understand that we hear sounds with our ears and that hearing is one of our senses.
  • Investigate their ideas about hearing by going outside and asking and extending questions and noticing patterns.
  • Together, draw up instructions for optimum hearing of the playground whistle, to demonstrate their learning and understanding.

Activities

  1. Understand that we hear sounds with our ears and that hearing is one of our senses.
  2. Offer suggestions for what might make a difference to how well they can hear a whistle when it is blown.
  3. Investigate their ideas by going outside and asking and extending questions and noticing patterns.
  4. Together, draw up a list of 'Top Tips for Hearing the Playground Whistle'.
  5. Be aware of the meaning of the scientific language: ears, senses, hearing, spotting patterns.

Investigation - pattern seeking, exploring over time
Talk to each other about what makes a difference to how well they can hear a whistle when it is blown.
Investigate ideas by going outside and asking and extending questions and noticing patterns.

Vocabulary
Test, ears, senses, hearing, patterns

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