2+planning+&+preperation

**2. Planning and Preparation ** **//Planning //** Students will watch a video on the human ear. Students will complete an online worksheet on the parts of the ear.

Students will work in partners. Students will be given five items differing in size and matter. Students will predict what sounds each item will make when dropped form two feet above their desks. Student A will listen to each item dropped by student B behind a poster board. Student A will guess which item made the sound and record their predictions. Student B will record what the actual item is. The students will repeat these steps for both partners.

Students will make a table that has item #, sound description, guess of item, and actual item. Students will fill in hearing and ear diagram on wikispaces and submit for review. Students will create drop code and try guess partners code word.

Students will get onto Wikispaces and record their data for other partnerships to see and compare. They will write up a brief explanation of why the findings were the way they were. Were the other groups findings the same or different? Why were there similarities/differences? **//Preparation //** The students will talk about sound in the classroom and will read a book on sound.

Before the project begins the students will watch a video on the human ear which is found on a website.