IBS&E: AS SOUND AS A BELL

SCIENTIFIC PRACTICES DISCURSIVE PRACTICES SOUND CHART

Music
instruments
Describing

APLICATION CONTEXT:
Developing
Identifying Questioning SOUND CONTEXT
and using Environment Sound
models al sound pollution
SOUND PROCESSES
Planning and
Asking
questions
carrying out Pitch
investigations
(High-Low)
Defining
Oral skills/ Hypothesizing
Sound
Reading production SOUND PROPERTIES Sound
Speaking reception
SCIENTIFIC OR TECNOLOGICAL CONTEXT:

Alarms and
Communication
signals Loudness
Analyzing and
(Loud-soft)
Vibration
Communicating interpreting (Frequency, Amplitude, Duration
data
Oral skills/ Time, Speed, Sound
(Long-short)
Argumenting
InteractingExplaining Writing level)
Constructing
explanations SOUND MODEL
Justifying Sound and Others
Phonology/ health Timber Noise
Graphology (Sound (Unwanted
quality) sound)
Lexical
Grammar
Pragmatics Sound travel

EXPLORATION INQUIRY APLICATION

Primary school: Ciutat dAlba (Sant Cugat del Valls) Level: 6th Teachers: Merc Aguas and Sheila Reina Co-teacher: Carla Codina School year: 2016-17

HYPOTHESIS: We think about how we can build

different bells, what materials we will need, how
we will register the data and we also imagine what
will be the result of our experimentation.

CONTEXT: Throughout the humans life

the sound of the bells has been used to
express joy, sorrow, danger
ASKING QUESTIONS: Bells make
different sounds. Could we build bells that
CONSULTING WITH EXPERTS: sound different with these materials?
Sometimes we do not know how to
interpret the results or how to elaborate
explanations about what we have
observed. Experts can help us find other
ways to explore.

AS SOUND
BUILDING UP EXPLANATIONS: Once the AS A BELL
results are analyzed, we build explanations of EXPERIMENTATIONS AND COLLECTING DATA:
why we think it has happened and we also refer We put into practice the hypotheses we have raised. We
to the sound model. take notes of all the results obtained.
Sometimes we have to refocus our hypothesis and look
for other paths.
ANALYSING AND INTERPRETING DATA: We reflect
on the results obtained and think if our hypotheses were
Our assumptions fulfilled.
have not been Our assumptions have been fulfilled
fulfilled