🔬 1st Grade Science · Unit 2
Sound
9 short narrated lessons in 2 chapters, each with pictures, a quiz with a hint and a second try, and an explanation for every answer.
Standards: 1-PS4-1
1st Grade Science · 6 units
What your child will learn
Sound and vibration
- What Makes Sound?Explain that sounds are made when something vibrates, or moves back and forth very quickly.
- Feel the VibrationDescribe how touching your throat while humming lets you feel vibrations.
- Loud and Soft SoundsCompare loud and soft sounds and explain that bigger vibrations make louder sounds.
- High and Low SoundsCompare high and low sounds, like a small bell and a big drum.
- Sound and Vibration Review ReviewReview how vibrating things make sounds that can be loud, soft, high or low.
Sound makes things move
- Dancing Rice on a DrumExplain how a loud sound near a drum can make rice on top of it bounce.
- Sound TravelsDescribe how sound moves through air, water and even solid things like walls.
- How We HearExplain that vibrations travel to our ears so we can hear sounds.
- Sound Makes Things Move: Review ReviewReview how sound can make materials vibrate and how sound travels to our ears.
Try a question from this unit
From the lesson “What Makes Sound?”
Which one is making a sound right now?
Show the answer
[object Object]. The ringing bell is vibrating, so it makes a sound.
Hint kids see after a wrong try: “Look for the thing that is moving back and forth.”
Key words
- sound
- vibrate
- vibration
- loud
- soft
- high
- low
- pitch
- drum
- bounce
- travel
- ear
- hear
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