Tim Harding

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Welcome to
Learning Science through Songs
Tim Harding
NAIGS Annual Conference 4th July 2008
tim_harding_at_hotmail.co.uk
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How do we learn ?
Seeing
Hearing
Auditory
Visual
graphic
verbal
verbal
musical
Doing
Kinaesthetic
Practical tasks
Body movement / actions
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The Water cycle

• Water is extremely important because it essential
  to all living things. It is a material which can
  change state. Liquid water evaporates to become
  water vapour- part of the air around us. When
  water vapour is cooled it changes back into
  liquid water. This can often be in the form of
  precipitation- rain, snow,sleet or hail.
• So water is all around, in the air- as vapour ,
  or perhaps as a liquid, such as puddles on the
  ground. These disappear when the water evaporates
  , a process aided by the sun and wind.
• Water can also change into a solid, which we
  call ice, when the temperature falls to 0. This,
  of course, melts again when the temperature
  rises.
• When water gets very hot ,steam is produced as
  the water changes into water vapour.
• These changes of state are called reversible
  changes.- Which means that the water can be
  returned to a former state.

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• Now let me tell you something bout Water,
• Cos if you dont know by now, then you oughta.
• We all need it so we think its great,
• And it can even change its state.

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Evaporation
Its part of the air
Gas
Condensation
Cool
Then a liquid is there
Precipitation
It goes to the ground
Falls
The Water Cycle goes round and round
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Cool
Condensation
Gas
Precipitation
Falls
Evaporation
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Water Cycle Calypso
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• Now let me tell you something bout Water,
• Cos if you dont know by now, then you oughta.
• We all need it so we think its great,
• And it can even change its state.

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Evaporation Condensation Precipitation
Its part of the air Then a liquid is there It
goes to the ground
Gas Cool Falls
The Water Cycle goes round and round
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• And did you know that water is around us,
• In vapour in the air or down on the ground, as
• Puddles which can vanish in the sun and the
  breeze,
• But watch the water freeze at zero degrees.

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Evaporation Condensation Precipitation
Gas Cool Falls
Its part of the air Then a liquid is there It
goes to the ground
The Water Cycle goes round and round
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• So water can be solid when its frozen as ice,
• Which melts into liquid when the temperatures
  rise.
• When it boils it makes steam as it turns into gas
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• Reversible changes of state dont last.

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Evaporation Condensation Precipitation
Its part of the air Then a liquid is there It
goes to the ground
Gas Cool Falls
The Water Cycle goes round and round
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• Song features
• Musical elements to aid thinking memory
  process
• Song Format
• Content Context characters visual
  reference-
• Style- emotional impact
• Links to movement- actions / dance / clapping

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Musical elements
Rhythm
Framework for thought patterns fluency
Rhyme
verbal clues prompts
Repetition
reinforcement
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The rain will fall And the Sun will glow Giving
water and light For the plants to ..
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And the rain will fall
and the Sun will glow,
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and light
Giving water
so the plants can grow.
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Familiar Songs involving repetition The wheels
on the bus If youre happy and you know it Old
MacDonald Frere Jaques
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Song format

• Provides brilliant opportunity to encapsulate
  what it is you want to teach within a particular
  type of structure

• Each section can focus on concise body of
  information- can be sequential- progressing from
  one concept / idea to the next (verses).

• Gives opportunity to revisit several times so
  emphasise the bits you really want to emphasise!
  (chorus)

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Weve got the Force
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• If you want pulling or pushing or spinning
  around,
• If you want upthrust or gravity to get to the
  ground,
• If you want stretching or moving, as a matter of
  course,
• Youll want us, cos weve got the force.

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• Well we meet with some resistance almost
  everywhere,
• In the water, on the ground and even up in the
  air.
• It slows us down, a bit of friction, and things
  get hot,
• But thats only on the surface and we like it a
  lot.

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• If you want pulling or pushing or spinning
  around,
• If you want upthrust or gravity to get to the
  ground,
• If you want stretching or moving, as a matter of
  course,
• Youll want us, cos weve got the force.

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Food Chain
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Everything around us, if its alive, Needs
nutrition to survive, And in an ecosystem in a
habitat, The animals know just where theyre at.
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Thats part of the Food chain - the transfer
of energy Food chain natures way Food chain
in a natural community, Producer
Consumer, A Predator eating its prey.
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All of Earths energy comes from
the Sun, And green plants can change it and
pass it on, Producing food for consumers in their
leaves, In a process called

photosynthesis.
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Thats part of the Food chain - the transfer
of energy, Food chain natures way. Food chain
in a natural community, Producer
Consumer, A Predator eating its prey.
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Meanwhile. Down in the pond, Theres
a little food chain on - From pondweed to bugs
and bugs to newt, Oh no! The newt got eaten by a
coot.
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Thats part of the Food chain - the transfer
of energy, Food chain natures way. Food chain
in a natural community, Producer
Consumer, A Predator eating its prey.
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Micro-organisms break down waste in the ground
below, Releasing nutrients into the soil that
help the plants to grow.
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Thats part of the Food chain - the transfer
of energy, Food chain natures way, Food chain
in a natural community, Producer
Consumer, A Predator eating its prey.
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Content context

• Familiar stories / rhymes
• Baa Baa Black Sheep
• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

• Science story characters
• / settings

• Mind Maps

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What its all about
Materials what things are made of
Physical processes- weve got the force
Thats Science
Grouping
Forces Movement
Living things part of the food-chain
Changing
Electricity
Separating
Animals
Light
Plants
Sound
Environments
The Earth and beyond
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Sound
Listen
air
made by (creation) vibration
ear
Hear it Travel round
some materials
hit
scrape
shake
ground
blow
high
shorter tighter thinner
pitch
harder
louder
further
low
longer looser thicker
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• Light Dark Objectives
• that light is essential for seeing things
• that objects cannot be seen in darkness
• that when it is dark other senses can be used
  to help us find things and identify things
• that there are many sources of light
• that light sources vary in brightness
• to observe and make comparisons of sources of
  light
• that sources of light show up best at night-time
• to observe and make comparisons of sources of
  light and to try to explain what they observed

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• that the Sun is the source of light for the Earth
  
•   that it is dangerous to look at the Sun because
  it is so bright
• to make observations and to try to explain
  these
• that shiny objects need a light source if they
  are to shine
•    that shiny objects are not light sources
• to suggest how to find out about where a
  reflective strip will shine brightly
• to make observations and simple comparisons and
  to say whether what they found out was what they
  expected
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Light Dark Vocabulary

•   words and phrases related to light and dark
  eg bright, light, dark, black, night, day,
  reflect, reflective strip
•    names of light sources eg torch, warning
  light, Sun, candle, lantern
•    words and phrases used to make comparisons
  eg darker/darkest, bright/brighter/brightest
• expressions giving reasons using because.

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Pose Questions
Scientific Enquiry
Observe
Experiment
Find out
Communicate
processes and skills
Science
Forces Movement
 
Electricity
Living Things
humans
Physical Processes
knowledge and understanding
animals
Environments interdependence
Light
Materials their Properties
Sound
green plants
variation classification
The Earth and beyond
Grouping
Changing
Separating
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Pose Questions
Scientific Enquiry
Observe
Experiment
Find out
Communicate
Does it grow? does it feed? does it reproduce?
have senses? does it move?
Can it push, can it pull, can it make things
move, does it have the force?
finding out
S T MATE
LIV
Science
FIZZ
Forces Movement
 
Electricity
Living Things
humans
Physical Processes
what it's all about
animals
Environments interdependence
Light
What is it made of, what can it do, what can we
use it for?
MATT
Sound
green plants
variation classification
Materials their Properties
The Earth and beyond
Grouping
Changing
Separating