Kathleen Hoffman

Professor Alyce Gray

ECE 251

Lesson Plan

Can you hear that noise?

Activity Name: Hearing

Approximate Length of Experience: 30 minutes

Age and Number of Children: 1st grader/ 20 children

Goal: For students to understand their sense of sound and appreciate their sense of hearing.

Domain: Cognitive

Content:

Fact: How is hearing useful?

Vocabulary: useful, brain, senses, sound

Fact: How does hearing help you identify real world objects ?

Vocabulary: identify, world, protect, danger

Objectives:

1. Students will discover we use our senses to learn about the world around them.

2. Students will learn that our ears gather the sound and our brain make sense of what it is.
 3. Students will identify different things from the familiar sound that they make.

4. Students will understand that hearing helps them identify familiar things within their

world by sound rather than sight.

Outcomes/Abilities .. Physical: Increase understanding of hearing and sound,

Materials: Tape, chart paper, markers, pre recorded sounds on the Ipad, picture cards of the

sound objects, Hearing by Rebecca Rissman

Procedure: Students will gather on the carpet in whole group setting. Teacher will read book

Hearing by Rebecca Rissman.

“Your ears collect sounds and send messages to your brain. Without the use of your eyes your

ears hear a sound and your brain identifies it. Sounds can be loud or soft. We can hear different

sounds in different seasons. We can hear different sounds from home and school. Our hearing

can also protect us from dangers such as hearing a fire alarm if there is a fire that we cannot see.I

am going to play a series of sounds and ask you to identify what makes the sound.” Teacher will

identify the importance of hearing and how sounds help us learn about the world.

Teacher will ask the following question:

“ What object makes this sound?” (memory)

“Which picture matches the sound?” (evaluative)

Teacher will lay out picture cards in front of the students. Students will be asked to choose

picture card that correlates to the sound played. Teacher will play pre recorded sounds asking

students to identify the object that made the sound.

Extension: If time permits students can graph their favorite sound on anchor chart bar graph.

Teacher will have blank bar graph drawn on anchor chart and whole group students can graph

their favorite sounds.

Simplification: Students with language difficulties can answer the following questions: “ Where

would you find ___ ?” ( Convergent) Using pictures identified in activity students can verbalize

where they would find the different things pictured in their world.

What Next: If the lesson plan goes well students will learn how to protect their ears and how

ears protect them.

Evaluation of appropriateness of the category (type) of questions used:

In this lesson students had to identify sounds they heard and relate them to real world objects. I

introduced the lesson by reading the book Hearing by Rebecca Rissman. This opened up the

discussion about how hearing is useful. I feel that I have provided appropriate questions based on

the cognitive development of a first grade student. The picture cards relate to familiar objects in

real world applications for a first grader. The questions used are simple and open- ended so that

students of all abilities can participate. I could create further questioning that incites higher level

critical thinking using more divergent questions would create a higher level of thinking.