Activity 1: Hear,
make and feel tones / noises |
Catagory: Sound / cassette-recorder |
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Target group: 35 to 6 year old children in kindergarten or
daycare |
Aim: -
hear and classify noises - make
sounds with the body and the voice - build an
instrument („stringed boxes") |
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Where: Outside / the group’s room |
How long? Approx. 1 hour |
What? Listen to sounds, build an instrument |
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Preparation: material: symbol cards, a
triangle, different boxes, rubber bands colour pencils
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Steps: Situation / Problem: We are surrounded by different sounds. At different
places outside the children close their eyes, listen to noises and tell the
others what they have heard. Exploring – Developing Phase: The children make noises with their bodies, make
loud and soft tones only with their voice, put their fingers on their neck
and feel their vocal chords. The children imitate sounds of animals they see on
the symbol cards. The children hear the tone of a triangle and they
follow the tone with closed or bandaged eyes. The children build an
instrument – the nursery school teacher supports them - with boxes and rubber
bands, they experiment with the instrument by shoving colour pencils under
the rubber bands. Different sounds are produced. |
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Scientific Explanation: When you put a finger on your neck you feel that the
vocal chords tremble more when the tone is low and that they swing less when
the tone is high. Boxes of different sizes
produce different tones. The rubber band emitts a tone by vibrating. The
empty box serves as an orchestra. The rubber bands can swing better this way. |
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Attention! |
Source: Aerdley, Neil und Burnie, David: Spannende Experimente aus
Natur und Technik. Bindlach 1998 |
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