SOUND (PHYSICS)

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Progression in Scientific

knowledge, concepts & skills

EYFS

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

KS3

Concepts

Cause and effect

Changes

Working Scientifically

Children know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things.

Children talk about features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another.

Children make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur and talk about changes.

Identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense (Animals including Humans)

Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with vibrations

Know how the vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear

Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produce it.

Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and the object that produced it

Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases

Waves on water as undulations which travel through water with transverse motion; these waves can be reflected, and add or cancel superposition

Frequencies of sound waves, measured in Hertz (Hz); echoes, reflection and absorption of sound

Sound needs a medium to travel; the speed of sound in air, in water, in solids

Sound produced by vibrations of objects in loudspeakers is detected by their effects on the microphone, diaphragm and the ear drum; sound waves are longitudinal.

Auditory range of humans and animals

Pressure waves transferring energy; used for cleaning and physiotherapy by ultrasound.

Waves transferring information for conversion to electrical signals by microphone

Possible learning questions

How is the sound that your favourite band makes enjoyed by you?