Exploring and Making Sounds
Experiment with sounds from voices, objects and instruments: make them louder or quieter, higher or lower, faster or slower; choose and combine sounds to match a mood, a story or a picture
What a learner can do afterwards
- Change a sound deliberately and describe how (e.g. tapping a glass harder to make it louder)
- Choose sounds to match a mood or story moment (e.g. slow low notes for a giant's footsteps)
- Combine two or more sounds and say what they were trying to make (e.g. shakers and tapping for rain)
The lesson
Sounds can change in fun ways. You can make a sound louder or quieter. You can make it higher or lower. You can make it faster or slower.
Mia taps a glass softly. It makes a quiet sound. She taps it hard. Now it is loud. Same glass, different taps.
Sounds can match a feeling or a story. Slow, low notes can sound like a giant walking. Fast, high sounds can sound like a mouse running.
Try mixing two sounds together. Shakers and tapping can sound like rain. Say what sound you were trying to make.
Change sounds on purpose, then pick and mix them to tell a story.
Watch it
Where it sits
Learn first
Nothing; this is a starting point.
This opens up
Where this leads
Jobs that lean on this skill. Follow one to see everything it is built on.
8 questions wait behind this lesson, each with its answer explained. Every answer feeds the sky: stars light as they are learned, and dim when it is time to come back.