Sounding out nature

Sounding out nature

Lesson 4 of 13 in this unit

  • Primary
  • Year 3 - 4
  • English
  • Science
  • Environmental
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  • Climate Change
  • Sustainability
  • ...

Lesson summary

In this activity students get out into an ecosystem and record the sounds that they hear. The sounds can be recorded (e.g. on a tablet), or through drawings or brief explanatory notes.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • use their audio observation skills to identify the kind of activities occurring. They sort the sounds into natural and those are not natural.
  • interpret what they have heard as an indication of some aspects of the local biodiversity.

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Lesson details

Curriculum mapping

Australian curriculum content descriptions:

Year 3 Science:

  • Living things can be grouped on the basis of observable features and can be distinguished from non-living things (ACSSU044)

Year 3 English:

  • Learn extended and technical vocabulary and ways of expressing opinion including modal verbs and adverbs (ACELA1484)

Year 4 Science:

  • Living things, including plants and animals, depend on each other and the environment to survive (ACSSU073)

Year 4 English:

  • Incorporate new vocabulary from a range of sources into students’ own texts including vocabulary encountered in research (ACELA1498)

Syllabus Outcomes: EN2-9B, ST2-10LW. 

Indoor or outdoor activity: Outdoor

Time required: 40 mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: Guide students through activity and lead discussion around findings.

Resources required

  • Outdoor habitat locations where students can sit undisturbed for a short period of time
  • Clip boards
  • Paper
  • Pencils
  • Camcorder or a sound reordering device e.g., tablet (optional).

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