Background Four year pilot programme Led by Education Scotland - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Background • Four year pilot programme • Led by Education Scotland • Funded through a partnership between The Wood Foundation, Scottish Government and participating Local Authorities.

Local authorities

Core objectives • Build capacity at local authority level • Build the confidence, skills, knowledge and enthusiasm of primary school practitioners • Create opportunities for practitioners to network, share, collaborate, mentor and co-create • Raise attainment and achievement in primary science/STEM

External Evaluation Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change Key findings • RAiSE is adopting an effective CLPL model • Motivated PSDOs driving improvement • Sustainable models created • Complementary to broader educational priorities

Impact • Sustainability • Investing in practitioners • Building confidence • Innovative and exciting practice • Capturing the imagination of young people, developing their curiosity • Building partnerships

Learner Engagement

SCN 1-11a. Through play, I have explored a variety of ways of By collaborating in experiments on different ways of Through research on how animals making sounds. SCN 0-11a producing sound from vibrations, I can demonstrate communicate, I can explain how sound how to change the pitch of the sound. SCN 1-11a vibrations are carried by waves through air, water and other media. SCN 2-11a Prior Knowledge Suggested Learning Experience(s) Through play, I can identify sources of sound and describe how to make Create a play area with a tinker table with objects to make a sound . For them louder or quieter. example, pasta shapes, rice, beans, cups, containers, balloons, string, Benchmarks for Assessment nylon guitar strings, wool, tubes, water. Task the children with investigating how the “instrument” can vary the pitch of the sound. ● Demonstrates how sounds can be made higher or lower pitch by altering tightness, length, width or thickness or other physical Create stations for investigating sound within the classroom. Slide characteristics of the sound source. whistles, recorders, guitars/ ukuleles, drums, xylophones, flutes, bells, ● Explains that sound is caused by a vibration in a material. sound hoses (pipes). Ensure that for each instrument, the pitch of sound can be varied. For drums and bells this might mean providing different sized instruments. Avoid electronic instruments like keyboards as the children won’t be able to observe changes in pitch happening by a physical change (although this could be used to demonstrate hearing what a change in pitch means). Skills Common Misconceptions Loudness and pitch of a sound are often confused with each other: hitting • Inquiry and investigative skills : Plans and designs scientific investigations an object harder does not change the pitch. In wind instruments it is the and enquiries; Carries out practical activities in a variety of learning internal column of air that vibrates not the instrument itself. environments;Analyses, interprets and evaluates scientific findings;Presents scientific findings. Glossary of Key Vocabulary • Scientific analytical thinking skills. • Pitch - the highness or lowness of a tone. • Skills and attributes of scientifically literate citizens. • Sound frequency - number of sound waves per second. A high pitched sound will have a higher frequency than a low pitched sound. The range of human hearing is from around 20 Hertz to 20,000 Hertz. • Hertz - the unit of frequency.

Key Questions Online Links • • What causes sound? Sound is caused by vibrations. These vibrations https://www.bbc.com/teach/class-clips-video/music--science-ks2-how- result in sound waves which transmit the sound to our ears. string-instruments-make-sound/zfmd7nb String instruments • How does sound made higher or lower? By altering tightness, length, https://www.bbc.com/teach/class-clips-video/music--science-ks2-how- width or thickness or other physical characteristics of the sound woodwind-instruments-make-sound/zk3py9q Woodwind instruments • https://www.ducksters.com/musicforkids/how_brass_instruments_wor source. (Specific examples of how this achieved in common musical instruments is contained in the ‘online links’ opposite. ) k.php Brass instruments • https://method-behind-the-music.com/mechanics/percussion/ Percussion instruments • http://info.sserc.org.uk/cfe-organiser/forces-electricity- IDL Opportunities waves/vibrations-waves/461-scn-1-11a-experimenting-with-sound • Link geometric patterns in Art to sound pitch. Watch this clip Extended Learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJAgrUBF4w and create Invite guests who play musical instruments to come into the class to geometric patterns in a media of your choice for high and low pitches. demonstrate how their instrument makes and changes the pitch of EXA 1-02a, EXA 1-03a. sound. Allow learners to hypothesise how the instrument(s) change the • Rhythmic fractions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEL5jMuempg pitch. investigate fractions in numeracy using sound. MNU 0-07a, MNU 1- Science Capital 07a,b,c . Real Life Links • Attend a musical performance and listen to the volume and pitch. Developing the Young Workforce • Sound Engineer/technician for a television, radio or theatre company. Suggested Assessment • Audiologist. • Hearing Aid Dispenser. • MAKE a video or poster and SAY how an instrument makes sound louder, quieter or higher and lower. • Home Learning Ideas Present the learners with an instrument that is not common • http://www.cafemuse.com/soundgarden/makingmusic/percussion.htm https://artsandculture.google.com/theme/-gJiyqdl_D_BIQ and allow Try out some of the activities on this website for percusions them to identfy the source of the sound and describe how the sound instruments. may be altered in pitch and volume. Bibliography Light and Sound for Science Kids by Mike Goldsmith ISBN-13: 978- 0753462812

Further information Email gayle.duffus@educationscotland.gov.scot https://www.thewoodfoundation.org.uk/developing-young-people-in-scotland/raise/

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