- sound
- source
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.2: Recall information for short periods of time and retell, act out, or represent information from a text read aloud, a recording, or a video (e.g., watch a video about birds and their habitats and make drawings or constructions of birds and their nests).
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Language Development/Expressive Language: Engages in communication and conversation with others.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving: Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 2: Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
Watch Together: “Tracking Down Sounds” (PEEP live-action clip)
STEM Key Concepts: Sounds have a source; Different objects make different sounds
ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Before You Watch
Tell children that they will be watching a video about children who are tracking down sounds, just like they did in their explorations.
Give children a viewing focus by asking them to listen carefully to the sounds the children in the video hear and follow. Play the live-action video PEEP and the Big Wide World “Tracking Down Sounds.”
After You Watch
Review the video with children. Ask questions to help them make connections to their own explorations of tracking down the sources of sounds. For example,
- What were some of the sounds the children heard? How are they like the sounds you heard?
- Were you surprised at the source of a sound? Did you think the source would be something different? Why?
- Were the sounds all in the same place? How did the children find out what was making the sound? Is that the same way you found out what was making a sound?
Educator Tip: Watching and discussing the selected PEEP stories and live-action video clips can spark and extend children’s interest and understanding of sound. We suggest that children watch the video clips after they have had an opportunity to do their own initial exploration of sounds. That way your children can compare their experiences and discoveries with those shown on the video clip and think about what additional sound explorations they might like to try.
