What can I hear?

Kogia finds his food by listening. What can you find?

ScienceAges 2–312 minutes3 pagesEnglish textInk-light

Being written

This one is planned but not finished yet. Everything below is what it will contain.

Not drawn yet

I can sit still and name three sounds I hear.

How the fifteen minutes go

The five steps on this sheet, in the order a child meets them. This is what you will actually be doing, not a description of the method.

Print the one that fits today. Same skill, three depths — and on this sheet they differ like this.

Support

Thirty seconds, and tick from six pictures.

Fewer items, more pictures, hints included, parent reads the instructions.

Core

One minute, tick and draw one extra.

The standard task, recognition, practice and explanation.

Challenge

Do it twice, inside, then outside, and compare.

Open-ended. Explain why, make your own example, use it somewhere new.

The same guide that is printed on the back page, so you can read it before you decide to print anything.

The answers

Whatever they heard. If they heard something you did not, believe them; children's hearing is better than ours.

If they get stuck

Close your own eyes too and name one sound yourself to start it off.

Common mistakes

When they finish early

Do it at bedtime and again first thing. The house sounds different.