48 The Five Senses: Supplemental Guide 2A | I Use My Ears to Hear
You may wish to take small groups of students to a room or a place
that can create echoes. For example, there may be an empty (or mostly
empty) room within the school or a handball wall outdoors. Allow
students to observe sounds at different locations and figure out which
places create echoes and which places do not.Introducing the Read-Aloud 15 minutes
Lesson Introduction
Show image 3A-1: Different kinds of ears- Remind students of the previous lesson and how they learned about
the different parts of their eye and the sense of sight. - Tell students to look at the pictures as you point to the different kinds
of ears. - Ask students if they can guess what today’s lesson will be about.
- Explain that many animals have ears that help them hear; ears are
used for hearing.
Making Connections
- Tell students that today they are going to learn about the sense of
hearing. - Have students repeat the phrase sense of hearing while pointing to
their ears. - Ask them to close their eyes for a moment, be very quiet, and listen
to all the sounds around them. Then tell them to open their eyes and
think about the sounds that they heard. - Ask them what they heard. They might have heard the hum of the
overhead lights, the birds and insects outside, the students in the
classroom next door, or someone walking down the hall. - Encourage students to brainstorm as many sounds as they might
have heard. You might even ask them to close their eyes and listen
one more time. - Point out that sound can be really loud—like a lion’s roar—or really
quiet—like a whisper. Have them roar like a lion and whisper quietly to
their neighbor.