Unit 3B: Manipulating sound Section 2: SHORT FOCUSED TASKS
Objectives
Children should learn:
key idea: that sounds can be stored on CD-ROM
technique: to use ICT to record sounds
Activities
Outcomes
Children:
Discuss families of instruments, such as strings, wind and percussion. Demonstrate sounds and features of these instruments using classroom instruments and a CD-ROM.
Give children the opportunity to search the CD-ROM for themselves. Ask them to find an example of an instrument from each family and to write its name and family on a card. Then ask them to use a tape recorder to record a sound sample and to sketch an instrument. Ask the class to make a display which includes an invitation to listen to instrument families on cassette.
locate and record sounds
Points to note
Children will have learnt to search a CD-ROM in Unit 2C 'Finding information'. These two activities may be combined.
This activity provides an opportunity to make comparisons between different ways of recording and storing sounds, such as on tape or CD-ROM.
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