CURRICULUM RESOURCES
Year 1 | Physical sciences | Look! Listen | NEW – fully aligned to the Australian Curriculum
Light and sound surround us, bringing a wealth of information about our world. We use light and sound to communicate with each other. Sounds can be as different as beautiful music or screaming sirens. Light can transmit the pictures from a television screen or the expressions on someone’s face. Almost continuously, light and sound affect what we think and do, and how we feel.
The Look! Listen! unit is an ideal way to link science with literacy in the classroom. It provides opportunities for students to investigate sources of light and sound, how they are produced and how light and sound travel. Students’ understanding of the role of light and sound in our lives and our community will be developed through hands-on activities. Through investigations, students explore why we have two eyes instead of one.
Unit at a glance (PDF)
Equipment lists (PDF)
Alignment with the Australian Curriculum: Science (PDF)
Alignment with the Australian Curriculum: English and Maths (PDF)
Factual and narrative texts
Useful websites
Factual:
All about sound (Read-about Science series)
Trumbauer, Lisa (Scholastic, 2004, USA)
ISBN 0 516 25847 8
Hearing sounds (Its Science series)
Watts, Franklin (Children's Press, USA, 1998)
ISBN 0 516 26339 0
Light and Sound (Kingfisher Young Knowledge series)
Goldsmith, Dr. Mike (Kingfisher, London, 2007, 48pp)
ISBN 978 0 7534 1518 4
Sound and Music (Science Starters series)
Dixon, Malcolm & Smith, Karen (Evans Brothers Limited, London, 2005, 30pp)
ISBN 0 237 53020 1
Sound: From whispers to rock band (Science Answers series)
Cooper, Christopher (Heinemann, Australia, 2004, 32pp)
ISBN 1 40343553 7
Narrative:
Sounds all around (Let's-read-and Find-out Science series)
Pfeffer, Wendy (Harper Collins, New York, 1999, 32 pp)
ISBN 0 06 445177 1
Engineering Interact
An interactive science and engineering website for 9-11 year olds. Contains a number of interactive modules, split into three sections: learning, testing and engineering applications
Scholastic.com
An interactive game where students identify and match sounds.
Interactive sound ruler
An interactive ruler that compares the decibel level for everyday sounds.