KS2 Primary Science: Sound and Hearing
This complete lesson provides everything you need to deliver the KS2 Primary Science: Sound and Hearing. Each lesson builds comprehension and literacy skills, reviews previous sessions for retention, and includes graded tasks with self-assessment slides. The resources need no extra preparation or specialist knowledge and are suitable for teachers, supply staff, remote learning, and home schooling.
Learning Objectives
- Describe how sound reaches our ears and causes the ear drum to vibrate
- State how we can protect our ears from loud noises
- Explain the difference between pitch and volume
Lesson Contains
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- Starter activity (retrieval practice/recall)
- Warm-up activity
- Introduction to the keywords
- Students’ complete cycles of tasks in their books to show they have met the learning objectives, following the Teach-Check-Practice approach (I do-We do-You do).
- Opportunities for assessment for learning and independent practice with scaffolded tasks building to independence.
- Self-assessment answer slides
- Challenge extension work for higher ability students
- Worksheet (optional)
- This lesson includes SEND adaptations by chunking content to prevent working memory overload. It uses a blue background for Irlens, provides word banks, breaks up text to support students with dyslexia, and maintains a consistent format for those with ASD. The teacher differentiates group reading by difficulty and reinforces keywords from previous lessons.
- Students connect their learning from previous lessons, which helps them catch up if they have missed a class.
- EAL adaptations: explicitly teach vocabulary, provide word banks, and use visual representations on the slides.
- The lesson incorporates careers, highlighting career links with a gold star in the corner for easy identification.
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