Hearing or audition is the sense of sound perception. Hearing is all about vibration. Mechanoreceptors turn motion into electrical nerve pulses which are located in the inner ear. Since sound is vibrations propagating through a medium such as air, the detection of these vibrations, that is the sense of the hearing, is a mechanical sense because these vibrations are mechanically conducted from the eardrum through a series of tiny bones to hair-like fibers in the inner ear which detect mechanical motion of the fibers within a range of about 20 to 20,000 hertz, with substantial variation between individuals. Hearing at high frequencies declines with an increase in age. Sound can also be detected as vibrations conducted through the body by tactition. Lower frequencies than that can be heard are detected this way. The inability to hear is called deafness.
ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN:
- VOCABULARY
- ACTIVITIES
Use Your Ears
Use your ears, use your ears,
Listen now and hear!
Use your ears, use your ears,
What kind of sound do you hear?
Use your ears, use your ears,
Listen now and hear!
Use your ears, use your ears,
What kind of sound do you hear?
Language: Discuss with the children what part of the body we use to hear with. Talk about the different sounds they hear with in the classroom. (speaking and listening)
Outside: Noise hide and seek. Supply each child with a whistle or a bell. Have one child count to ten and the other children hide with their instrument. The seeker must follow the sounds that the hidden children make with their instrument.
Object Sounds
Set out four or five objects that make different sounds in front of you and have your children close their eyes. Tap on one of the objects and see if they can guess which object it was by the sound it made. If you have time, let your children take turns tapping the objects. Make the game harder for older children by just walking around the room and tapping on random objects for them to guess. (speaking)
Rhyming Time
Prepare the children by reading stories and poems with rhyming words. Provide the children with a box of small toy objects. Ask the children to name each object.
When the teacher is certain the children can correctly identify each object, the children can be asked to find objects with names that sound alike, for example, cake, rake; boy, toy, etc. (reading and listening)
ONLINE ACTIVITIES:
1. Listen and repeat the sounds of the instruments!
2. How does this sound?
FINALLY... LISTEN TO THE STORY!
