LESSON PLAN

Lesson Topic/Focus: Cluckers Date: 25/6/14

AusVELS Domain(s): Science Year level(s): 1/2
AusVELS strand (s): Science understanding Lesson duration: 60 mins
AusVELS sub-strand(s): Physical Science
AusVELS Dimension(s) or
Religious Education
Guideline:
Light and sound are produced by a range of sources and can be sensed (ACSSU020)
recognizing senses are used to learn about the world around us: our eyes to detect light, our ears to detect
sound, and touch to feel vibrations


Learning Standard(s)/Outcome(s):
Students will understand the relationship between sound and vibrations.

Assessment:
- Understand the relation between sound and vibrations.
- Creating a functional clucka by following instructions.


Teaching focus:
Ensuring all students follow directions.


Background to the learning:
A. Teacher
- AusVELS
- Previously conducted a lesson on sounds.
- http://www.sciencebob.com/experiments/chicken_cup.php

B. Student
- Students have previously had lessons on sounds.

Lesson resources:
- Whiteboard marker
- Whiteboard
- Template of chicken
- Plastic cups
- String
- Scissors
- Coloured pencils/textas
- Paper clips
- Wet sponge
- balloons

Lesson content:
A. Introduction _10___ mins
1. Remind students of science session yesterday. Have a quick recap.

2. Ding a triangle then ask;

- How was that sound made?
(This is a vibration; objects need to vibrate for sound to occur)

- How did the sound travel from the triangle to our ears?
(Soundwaves, the vibrating objects makes the air around it vibrate creating soundwaves
that reach our ears)

3. Lets feel sound:
- ask students to make a v sound loudly
Did you feel your lips tickle? That is the vibration of your mouth making the v sound
- Try making a z sound, can you feel that vibration?

B. Development __5__ mins
Students are to go in pairs; one person to hold the balloon, other person to talk into balloon.
Can you feel the vibrations in the balloon?
- Students to swap positions.


C. Consolidation, practice, extension _35___ Mins
Make your own sound: Today we are going to make our own sound tool.
- We are going to make a chicken clucker.

Show students a premade chicken clucker.

Demonstrate how to make a chicken clucker.

Early finishers/ extension
Students who finish early are encouraged to make different ones out of a different shape objects;
containers or bowls. So we can observe if the sounds are different.


D. Closure __10__ mins

Students are to gather on floor after cleaning up their mess, and share the sound of their cluckers.

Students can talk about how the cluckers make a sound.


The vibrations from the string would be almost silent without the cup, but when you add the cup, it spreads the vibrations and
amplifies them (makes them louder.) Pianos and music boxes use wood to act as a sounding board to make the instrument
louder.

Post-lesson review and evaluation:

Student achievement:












Teaching effectiveness: