Unit
2
Chirping Crickets
Timeline
- Lesson 2A: 2 hours
- Lesson 2B: 2 hours
- Unit 2 Review
- Summative Assessment: 10 minutes
- Putting It All Together: 20 minutes
Essential Statements
- I can hear sound.
- I can feel sound vibrations.
- I can tell how sound gets to my ears.
Essential Questions
How do crickets make sound?
How does sound travel?
Vocabulary
- Communicate – to share information, news, or ideas (Lesson 2B)
- Insect – a small animal with six legs and a hard cover (exoskeleton) over its body. Most have three body parts, some have wings (Lesson 2A)
- Matter – anything that has mass and takes up space (Lesson 2A)
- Sound – vibrations that travel through air and can be heard by ears (Lesson 2A)
- Vibrate – moving quickly back and forth (Lesson 2A)
- Wave – to move back and forth (Lesson 2A)