Over the next few weeks, we will consider sound. We have looked at this topic before in science and with the music teacher, but we will extend it a little to consider
How drums make sounds How woodwind instruments make sounds How string instruments make sounds How brass instruments make sounds
This week, we will remind ourselves: What is sound? watch the video clip below.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/music–science-ks2-what-is-sound/zbnmhbk
Activity:
- Experiment with making sounds using just your own bodies and voices.
- Sound needs a medium to travel through, for example, water. Have you ever tried to talk underwater? What other mediums can you list that sound can travel through?
- Find two pencils of different lengths. Knock them against a table, what do you notice?