Teacher PLD

Sounds of Aotearoa

In this recorded professional learning session, Greta Dromgool and educators from the New Zealand Association of Primary Science Educators (NZAPSE) explore fun ways you can learn and teach about sound. With simple activities using easy to source equipment they demonstrate how to engage students in discovering the science behind sound.

Sound is a fantastic topic to engage students with science and in this webinar there are lots of testable ideas for students to explore both in the classroom and at home.

This webinar is valuable for both primary and lower secondary school teachers, and also parents and caregivers supporting learning science at home.

Sounds of Aotearoa

This is an edited recording of the webinar Sounds of Aotearoa.

Rights: The University of Waikato Te Whare Wananga o Waikato

Thank you for all the great ideas!

Participant

Sounds of Aotearoa – slideshow

This slideshow, from the webinar Sounds of Aotearoa, provides additional support for the video tutorial.

Rights: The University of Waikato Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato

You can download the video and slideshow presentation.

I thoroughly enjoyed the webinar because it was very informative. Many thanks for organising these types of webinars because being a primary teacher I am always on the lookout for new ideas for science.

Teacher

Index

Topic

Slideshow number(s)

Video timecode

Welcome

1

00:00

Index

2

00:10

Introducing NZAPSE, The Science Learning Hub and purpose

3–6

02:35

Sound resources

7–9

03:36

Sandy Jackson: musical sounds activity

10

04:29

Chris Duggan: seeing sounds activity

11

12:11

Sterling Cathman: pump up the volume activity

12

18:07

John Marsh: grass sax, oboe and clucking chicken activities

13

29:30

SLH links, keep in touch and thanks

14–15

37:10

Activity ideas

Explore further with one or more of these activities:

This is the second webinar created in collaboration with NZAPSE, see Chemistry in the primary classroom for more hands-on science ideas.

Related content

You can also have a look at the Science Learning Hub’s Sound topic if you want to learn more.

We’ve made a partial r of Building Science Concepts Book 18 Exploring Sound: Using Sound-makers and Musical Instruments. This article and interactive explore the big ideas and science concepts for Physical World levels 1 and 2.

Sound – lower primary is a collection of resources and notes for educators. You are welcome to copy the collection to your own profile, where you can edit and curate additional resources. The article Creating collections tells you how to get the most out of a collection.

The PLD article Physical World – Sound curates Hub resources for the early years through to year 10.

Acknowledgement

This webinar has been created in collaboration with the New Zealand Association of Primary Science Educators.

New Zealand Association of Primary Science Educators NZAPSE logo

New Zealand Association of Primary Science Educators

New Zealand Association of Primary Science Educators (NZAPSE) logo.

Useful link

Find a range of engaging ideas and activities to support the 2020 Primary Science Week topic Sound on the NZAPSE website.

Published:21 May 2020