Education Standards
Good Vibrations (K-2)
Overview
This sequence of instruction was developed in the Growing Elementary Science Project to help elementary teachers who were working remotely. We developed a short storyline that ties together a few sessions to help explore a specific concept. We tried to include some activities that honored and included the student’s family and experience, and some that included the potential for ELA learning goals.
Unlike other units in our series, this was not developed as a complete stand-alone unit. Our intent, in this case, was to provide a set of options for the teacher, as well as some materials for consideration of opportunities to integrate reading in science.
It is part of ClimeTime - a collaboration among all nine Educational Service Districts (ESDs) in Washington and many Community Partners to provide programs for science teacher training around Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and climate science, thanks to grant money made available to the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) by Governor Inslee.
Storyline
( pdf version)
The unit of instruction is centered on answering the question:
Why can our bodies feel music?
| - Growing Elementary Science Learning Storyline - | |||
| Asking Questions & Defining Problems Introduce Phenomena or Problem | Explore Investigation – discussion questions- support student use of three-dimensions | Read/Model Ideas & Write Interactive read-aloud to introduce ideas -model ideas to organize thinking and support literacy connections | Professional Development |
Explore the Phenomena Video of Music Options: Suggestions:
Ask: Think and Write (partner talk): | Investigate Idea: Build guitars for home activity and then share during face-to-face with partners Model how homemade guitars produce sounds Notes: Pros and Cons of different instruments or drums or guitars Alternative Ideas: Sharing your homemade drum sets with partners. Segue to the book: Read: Pokko and the Drum (YouTube read-aloud) Dancing Rice activity to demonstrate sound making things move. | Data Analysis Where have you felt sound before? (Or saw sound move something.) How is this relevant to your lives? List the times. Tuning Forks/chime (Reading) Make a Model of Tuning Fork: (Jamboard) | Teachers Read and discuss “Opportunities for Integration.” |
Home Investigation Create your own homemade drum set
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| Storyline Launch → → → Investigating → → → → Sensemaking ⇢ → → → |
Materials
- Pokko and the Drum by Matthew Forsythe
- Publisher's Infro: https://bit.ly/3H3rAGQ
- YouTube Readaloud: https://bit.ly/3NyKCqN
- Scientists Make Models (Reading)
- Modeling Jamboard (Activity and Reflection)
- Build a Musical Instrument (Directions - pdf)
- Opportunities for Integrating Reading (Reading - pdf)
- Dancing Rice (Activity- pdf)
- Setting up a Bluetooth Speaker (Directions - pdf)
- Optional: Tuning Forks (Activity - pdf)
- Optional: Build a Telephone (Activity - pdf)
Standards Alignment
This document lists the Science AND ELA standards that are/can be addressed with these materials - at the Kindergarten, First Grade and Second Grade levels.