EiE: Seeing Animal Sounds - set 2 Check Availability

This unit brings new excitement to the study of sound. The storybook  Kwame’s Sound introduces a young drummer from Ghana who is blind; his father, an acoustical engineer, shows Kwame that sound is vibration and can be represented with both visual symbols (such as musical notation and spectrograms) and tactile symbols. Hands-on activities in this unit lead students to explore the properties of volume and pitch, investigate ways to damp sound, and develop their own novel way to represent the key elements of sound. Download a unit preview to further explore this teacher guide and storybook.

Engineering is Elementary Unit Components

Engineering is Elementary units consist of three components: teacher guides, storybooks, and materials kits. Teacher guides include four detailed lesson plans, one context-setting storybook, background content, teacher tips, suggestions for English Learner differentiation and grade level adaptation, and duplication masters for student handouts and assessments. Find additional unit-specific resources below to enhance student learning with Spanish translations, content area connections, standards alignment, extension lessons, classroom videos, and more!