Professional Materials: Sound and Music

Music is an integral part of most cultures. Music can have deep meaning and provides historical information about a group of people. Sound is the essence of music, making these two concepts go hand in hand. Throughout a unit on sound and music, discoveries abound around the physical sciences (waves and their application to technology) through the Crosscutting Concepts of patterns, cause and effect, scale, proportion and quantity, energy and matter, and structure & function.

Volume – Pitch – Duration Resource

This classroom poster offers a basic reminder of the aspects of music to emphasize with children as well as engaging prompts.

Sound Cards

These handheld picture cards are great to support children’s observation of sound inside and outside of school. Providing children with something tangible and visual can engage and focus them, supporting multiple styles of learning. Simply print and cut.

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Exploring the properties of sounds using various materials

In this unit, teachers and children explored different properties of sounds such as loudness and pitch by using a variety of household objects, as well as real instruments.