Learning Steps

Brainstorm - Skills of a Scientist - First Think
Overview of skills you will need to use

• Observation skills
• Listening and communication skills
• Read and follow instruction
• Cooperate with others
• Use equipment safely
• Ask questions
• Investigate and explore ideas
• Explain and give reasons
• Record results
• Theorise

Part 1 - How Sound Travels

• Human sound line experiment
• Race sound
• Sound vs Light
• Hand squeeze

Record an experiment

• What we did
• What you saw
• What you think
• Include diagrams

Videos

Sonic Boom

Thrust 2 

Part 2 - What Makes Sound?

Voice box touch

Grease proof paper

Tuning fork in water

Singing glass

Ruler on a table

Blow across the top of a plastic  bottle

Record an experiment

• What we did
• What you saw
• What you think
• Include diagrams

Videos

Sound and Salt experiment

Cornstarch Monsters

Standing wave with a skipping rope - slinky

Part 3 - What Sound Needs to Travel

String and fork

Telephones

Ear on the table

Ear on ruler

Sound gun - candle

Record an experiment

• What we did
• What you saw
• What you think
• Include diagrams

Part 4 Using New Knowledge

Make Music

Video inspiration - musical vegetables

Bottle orchestra

Straw oboe

Elastic band guitar

Grease proof paper

Membraneaphone

Perform Your Composition

Review 

Brainstorm - Skills of a Scientist - Second Think