Lesson Plan: 4P.4.09


LESSON PLAN
Teacher Subject Period Date Year Ability LSA/Other Support
Science

Context and
Landmark
Assessment		 4P.4.09
Landmark Assessment: Progress Observation Opportunity
Remember to have high expectations
Lesson Title: Today we are learning about
How does Sound travel?
Remember to check for PROGRESS
Focus on Knowledge, Skills and Understanding
Success Criteria: You will show your learning by...
  1. Sound is produced by the back and forth vibrations of objects such as loudspeaker diaphragm.
  2. Sound waves are longitudinal as the motion of the particles is along the direction the wave is travelling.
  3. Sound needs a medium of particles to travel, as the energy in sound waves is passed on by the collision of particles.
  4. Sound travels fastest in solids and slowest in gasses.
  5. Sound travels fastest in solids as the particles are closest together and so the collisions are passed on faster. Sound travels slowest in gasses as the particles are farthest apart and so the collisions are passed on slower.
  6. When air particles vibrating with sound energy collide with a microphone diaphragm or an ear drum, their energy is passed on.
  7. The sound energy is absorbed by the diaphragm and ear drum.
  8. The microphone and the inner ear transform the sound energy into electrical signals.
  9. SET HOMEWORK: Revise keyword meaning and concepts for POO.
Think about how you can match the needs of ALL students
Keywords:
  • Sound (8)
  • Energy (4)
  • Collide (3)
  • Particles (3)
  • Electrical (1)
  • Absorbed (1)
  • Particle (1)
  • Gas (1)
  • Solid (1)
  • Medium: An area populated with particles. (1)
  • Vibration (1)
  • Wave (1)
  • Longitudinal: Where the direction of motion is parallel with the direction of oscillation of the particles. (1)
  • Direction: A straight course along which something moves. (1)
Links: Literacy, Numeracy, SMSC, British values
Memory Anchor:

AFL/Key Questions:
  1. What type of wave is a sound wave?
    Sound waves are longitudinal waves.
  2. Why does sound need a medium to travel?
    Sound needs a medium of particles to travel, as the energy in sound waves is passed on by the collision of particles.
  3. In which of state of matter (solid, liquid, gas) does sound sound travel fastest?
    Sound travels fastest in solids.
  4. Why does the sound travel faster?
    Sound travels fastest in solids as the particles are closest together and so the collisions are passed on faster.
  5. What happens when sound waves collide with an object such as an ear drum?
    The sound energy is absorbed by the ear drum.
Identify questions for high, middle, low and identify questioning techniques- Challenge questions

Learning Phases/Episodes
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Differentiation: AGT, SEND, LLL, Disadvantaged
Remember to check for PROGRESS
Starter Activity Differentiation and Challenge question/task
  • Students to copy and complete the keywords.
  • Teacher reveals missing letters; Students correct mistakes;
  • Discuss the scientific meanings of the words.
  • Students to write down the definitions of the most important / new keywords.
  • Discuss the 'Memory Anchor'.
    • What does it show?
    • How does it relate to the what we are learning about today (title)?
Think about PACE – Develop, consolidate and deepen knowledge, skills and understanding
Teacher or Student lead? Differentiation and Challenge question/task
Progress Check Extension
Remember to give time to apply knowledge, skills and understanding
Teacher or Student lead? Differentiation and Challenge question/task
Progress Check Extension

Teacher or Student lead? Differentiation and Challenge question/task
Progress Check Extension

Teacher or Student lead? Differentiation and Challenge question/task
Progress Check Extension


Plenary Differentiation and Challenge question/task
  • Students to answer the 'Key Questions' with learning partners.
Progress Check
  • Teacher to reveal and discuss the answers to the questions.
 Extension
  • What have learnt about the 'Big Ideas' today?

Homework Differentiation and Challenge question/task