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Lesson Plan of Propagation of Sound General Science Grade IV
Lesson Plan of Propagation of Sound General Science Grade IV
Grade IV
Material / Resources
Table, alarm clock, paper bag, plastic container, metal can, wooden block, plastic bag, water tube, two steel
spoons, round bottom flask, bunch of keys, thread, cork, burner, textbook
Worm up activity
Activity 1
Activity 3
· Take a glass flask, with some water in it. As a student to tie a bunch of keys with a thread. Ask him/her to pass the
thread through a crock and suspend the keys inside the flask by fitting the cork on the mouth of flask. Shake the
flask. Ask the students weather they hear the sound of keys.
(Expected response: Yes)
· Now ask a student to heat the flask after removing the crock. When water starts boiling and flask is filled up with
steam, ask him/her to turn off the burner and again fit the cork tightly on the mouth of the flask. Leave the flask to
cool down. When all the steam has condensed into water, ask a student to shake the flask again. Ask the student
do they hear although the keys are shaking. Ask the students why it is so?
· Now explain that when water was boiled, the air inside the flask was replaced but the steam. On cooling, the
steam changed into water and vacuum was produced in the flask. Sound can’t travel through vacuum. Sound
requires a medium for its propagation.
Sum up / Conclusion
· Ask the students what they have learnt about sound in this lesson. Conclude their answers by writing on the board.
v Sound can travel through solids.
v Sound can travel through liquids.
v Sound can travel through gases.
v Sound can’t travel through vacuum.
v Material medium is required to carry sound from one place to another.
Assessment
· Ask the following question verbally at the end of lesson.
v How does the sound get to your ears from someone talking?
v Which materials can sound travel through?
v Why sound can’t travel through vacuum/
v How does sound travel when you have a conversion with your friends
Follow up
· Ask the students to think about what it is like to hear things under water.
· Debate whether travels sound better in liquids, gases (air), or a solids.