Sound – Common Core Lessons & Activities

The Common Core Series is the 2014 winner of the Smart Book Award from Academics’ Choice.



How to Use the Sound - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Click HERE to view sample pages from this book.

Tips:
• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
• Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
• To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click HERE.
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Sound - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes: • Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities

Here is the Table of Contents for the Sound - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
What Is Sound?: Reading Informational Text
Words on Sound: Comparison of Primary Sources
Sources of Sound: Applying ConceptsGO4
Vibrations through Matter: Main Idea
Hearing Sound: Concepts & Processes G
Speed of Sound: Reading Informational Text
Transverse and Longitudinal Waves: Concepts & Processes
Ringing of the Bell: Graphical Analysis
Sound: Cause & Effect GWavelength: Applying Concepts
Amplitude: Graphical Analysis
Pitch and Frequency: Applying Concepts
A Sound Experiment: Experiment Analysis
Hearing Hertz: Interpreting Visual Information
Useful Sounds: Compare & Contrast G
Communication: Reading Informational Text
Reflection of Sound: Reading Informational Text G
Making Music: Research & Writing G
Sound Vocabulary: Vocabulary G
Common Core Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8.5" x 11" online download HERE.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)