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Light and Sound

Packed full of exciting lessons and activities, these KS2 'Light and Sound' lessons are the perfect way to delve into a new cross-curricular topic with your class. With lessons across a range of subjets, your children will have the chance to improve their scientific, technological, artistic and musical knowledge of light and sound, and enjoy themselves as they do so!

Designed for Year 3/4 but easily adaptable for other age ranges, this 'Light and Sound' cross-curricular topic is great for any KS2 class to develop their knowledge of everything relating to light and sound.

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Please note that the Science lessons in this topic are identical to the 'Light and Shadow' lessons in the Science section.

Cross-Curricular Topics
Lesson Units: 17
Year 3,4
Key Stage 2
   

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Light and Sound: The Complete Series The complete 'Light and Sound' includes all the Art, DT, ICT, Music and Science lessons including: Colour Spectrum; Shady Art; Looking at Sound; Making Instruments; Circuit Games; Sound Bytes; Stained Glass Windows; Describing Instruments: Making Noises; Pitch and Volume; Sound Stories; Light Sources; Forming Shadows; Night and Day; Shadow Predictions; Shadow Sticks; and Transparent, Translucent and Opaque. £40.00 Add

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Art

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Light and Sound: Colour Spectrum 1 What colour is light? This lesson shows your class how a prism splits white light into different colours and goes on to look at primary, secondary and tertiary colours and how they can be made by mixing primary colours together using a colour wheel. These colour wheels can also be used to investigate complimentary colours. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets, a Colour Wheel and Picture Cards. £2.99 Add
Light and Sound: Shady Art 2 This lesson starts by exploring how and why artists incorporate light and shade into their work and goes on to develop your class's sketching skills as they practise their shading using pencils and paints. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets, Shading Sheets and Picture Cards. £2.99 Add
Light and Sound: Looking at Sound 3 What does sound look like? After pondering this question, your class will explore sound waves and how they can be represented and then go on to create their own artwork to represent sound waves. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas and Picture Cards. £2.99 Add

Design & Technology

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Light and Sound: Making Instruments 4 This project looks at how different musical instruments could be made using a variety of different materials and techniques and then gives your class the chance to make and evaluate their own musical instruments, either from their own designs or using the step-by-step help sheets as a guide. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets, differentiated Help Sheets and Picture Cards. £2.99 Add
Light and Sound: Circuit Games 5 After reminding your class how to construct electrical circuits to include bulbs and buzzers, this fun lesson allows them to put their design skills to the test as they design, make and evaluate a game including a circuit that lights up and makes noises. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets and a Help Sheet. £2.99 Add

ICT

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Light and Sound: Sound Bytes 6 This lesson looks at what a multimedia presentation is and what it might include before looking in more detail at how to insert sounds into a PowerPoint presentation. Children will then have the chance to try this out for themselves and even record their own sounds to include in their presentations. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, differentiated activity ideas, a Presentation Template and an Animal Sound Bytes file. £2.99 Add
Light and Sound: Stained Glass Windows 7 This creative lesson looks at a variety of stained glass windows before giving your class the chance to design and create their own stained glass 'window' with the help of ICT. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, a worksheet and Picture Cards. £2.99 Add

Music

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Light and Sound: Describing Instruments 8 This lessons gets your class thinking about all the musical instruments they are familiar with and challenges them to identify a variety of instruments, some of which may not be so familiar, before listening to different intruments to find out what they sound like. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets and Musical Sounds Templates. £2.99 Add
Light and Sound: Making Noises 9 I'm afraid there is no way around it...this lesson will get noisy! Your class will investigate different ways of making sounds to match a description using the objects they can see around them. Can they make low, booming noises? Can they make a high, tinkly sound? Find out if you dare! This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas and differentiated worksheets. £2.99 Add
Light and Sound: Pitch and Volume 10 After defining the terms 'pitch' and 'volume', your class will then improve their listening skills as they identify high, low, loud and soft notes on tuned instruments. They can even explore how jars with different amounts of water in have a different pitch...a great science link! This unit a contains a lesson plan, slides, differentiated activity ideas and a worksheet. £2.99 Add
Light and Sound: Sound Stories 11 This lesson consolidates the learning over the last 3 music lessons by giving your class the opportunity to compose, rehearse and perform a sound story by adding sounds to a written story. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets and Picture Cards. £2.99 Add

Science

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Light and Shadow: Light Sources 12 The first lesson in this series looks at different light sources, both natural and artificial, as well as exploring how light travels in a straight line and what would happen if an object blocked the light's path. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas and differentiated worksheets. £2.99 Add
Light and Shadow: Forming Shadows 13 Torches at the ready in this lesson as your class explore how to form shadows and examine the shape and position of the shadows they create. There is even the option of children creating their own shadow puppet theatres. This lesson contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets and a Help Sheet. £2.99 Add
Light and Shadow: Night and Day 14 This lesson explores the differences between night and day and how the rotation of the Earth brings about both. It also explores why countries in different parts of the world have different time zones. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets and Poem Template sheets. £2.99 Add
Light and Shadow: Shadow Predictions 15 How does the position of the sun change throughout the day and how does this affect shadows? This lesson gives your children the opportunity to explore this question as they make and check predictions about how the positions of their shadows change at different times of the day. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas and differentiated worksheets. £2.99 Add
Light and Shadow: Shadow Sticks 16 Building on their knowledge of how the position of shadows change throughout the day, this lesson gives your class the chance to plan, carry out and evaluate an experiment to see how the length and position of shadows change throughout the day using a shadow stick. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas and differentiated worksheets. £2.99 Add
Light and Shadow: Transparent, Translucent and Opaque 17 The final lesson in this Science series introduces your class to the terms 'transparent', 'translucent' and 'opaque' and challenges them to identify materials of these descriptions but examining the type of shadow they create. This unit contains a lesson plan, slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets and an End of Unit Quiz for the Science section of the topic. £2.99 Add

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