Planning for Teachers

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   * Example medium term planning of one subject for one week* 

 National curriculum P level descriptors 1-8

 
 

Class:

 

Term:

Teacher:

Teaching assistant(s):

Subject: Science unit 1f

Sounds and Hearing       (7½ hours per half term)

Theme: Senses

Curriculum links: ICT, Literacy, music

Week beg.

Focus

Learning objectives

Children should:

Activity (see lesson plan for more detail)

Learning outcomes

Children

3

Physical processes

 

There are many different ways of making sounds

P1(i)  encounter activities

 

P1(ii) show awareness of an activity

P2(i) show interest in objects

P2(ii)cooperate with supported participation

P3(i) participate in activities with less support

 

P3(ii) respond to options with gestures or actions

P4 imitate actions involving body parts

P5 join in experiments with a range of equipment

P6 recall sources of sound

 

P7 can communicate ideas

 

P8 make observations in changes in sounds that result from actions

 

Sing the song 'If you're happy and you know it clap your hands' as a start to using parts of the body to make sounds.

Children to make sounds themselves such as talking, whistling, clapping, Children to feel their own faces and throats while they are talking /singing and when they are not.

Explore different sounds made with their bodies. Child go behind a screen and make a sound with their body. Guess which part of the body was used to make the sound? Vary the sound by making it soft, loud, short, long etc?

Use a 'Sound Bag' with a variety of objects inside and pass it round. Children pull out an object and make as many sounds with it as possible. Find other things in the classroom that make interesting sounds.

Explore a variety of instruments. Look at how they are made - the material, construction and parts. Discuss what you have to do to make different sounds - bang, tap, scrape, shake, pluck etc.

Play a game where an instrument is passed around and everyone has to make a different sound with it.

P1(i)  have their hand put onto an adult’s throat as the adult makes sounds

P1(ii) look around as peers are making a variety of sounds

P2(i) put their hand into the sound bag

P2(ii)with help take an object out of the sound bag

P3(i) independently take an object from the sound bag, have help to make a sound with it

P3(ii) look briefly at one source of sound but look intently for another

P4 copy others making sounds with parts of the body in song and activity

P5 make sounds with a range of objects chosen from the sound bag

P6 know that they can shake or tap a tambourine to make a sound

P7 suggest which part of the body has been used to make a specific sound

P8 know that different instruments have to be played in different ways to enable a sound, and the same instrument can be played differently to get a different sound

 

Resources:

Words ‘If you’re happy and you know it’, objects in a sound bag, musical instruments, symbols of how different sounds are made on instruments,

 (click on words underlined to go to that resource or lesson plan)

 

Points to note:

All children will be able to participate (some with more help) if there is a suitable variety of objects in the sound bag

               

  

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