56 The Five Senses: Supplemental Guide 2B | I Use My Ears to Hear
Does a fire alarm have a loud volume or soft volume?
[Have a student place the picture in the correct column. Show
students the different types of pictures you have prepared. Ask them
if it has a soft or loud volume. Have different students place the
pictures in the correct column.]- Talk with your partner using the word volume and what you have
learned about the word volume from the Word Chart. Try to use
complete sentences.
[Throughout this domain, encourage students to continue thinking
about the word volume and add additional pictures to the Word
Chart.]
Optional Extension
Hand out magazines and have students identify pictures that resemble
loud or soft sounds. Ask students to cut them out and put them in the
correct column on the chart.
End-of-Lesson Check-In
I Use My Ears to Hear
Choose four students to focus on and record their scores on the Tens
Recording Chart. For this kind of informal observation, you should
give a score of zero, five, or ten based on your evaluation of students’
understanding and language use.0 Emergent understanding and language use
5 Developing understanding and language use
10 Proficient understanding and language use- Remind students that they have learned new words and information
about their ears and the sense of hearing. - Ask them to talk to their partner about what they have learned today
using as many new words and new information as they can. - Students may also use this time to ask their partner about unknown
words in the read-aloud. - Have students use the Response Cards for The Five Senses to
answer questions you have made up about the five senses; e.g., What
do I use my ear for? Where do sound waves come in from?