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Resources
Tangible Resources
Students’ works prepared during the project.
Preparation
Arrange the date of the event, draw up the programme, invite guests, gather equipment, instruments and materials, run tests prior to the event.
Goals, messages & concepts
Specific goals
- To celebrate the completion of the project.
- To present the results of their work.
- To raise awareness about the sounds that accompany us in our daily lives and their impact on our health and wellbeing.
- To promote the project in the city’s educational environment.
Specific messages
- Researching and observing natural and scientific phenomena is fun.
- Project-based learning is an effective tool to learn scientific phenomena in their real-world tangible context, to see that knowledge has purpose.
Main terms
- disseminate
Practices & skills
STEM practices
- Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Developing and using models
- Engaging in argument from evidence
- Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
Soft skills
- Dealing with uncertainty
- Learning failure is a part of learning
- Teamwork and collaboration
Management skills
- Planning
- Use of resources
Course of activity
step 1
Students will prepare a promotional event poster with the programme on social media and on the school’s website.
step 2
They will put together a presentation of their work for parents and science teachers from various schools in the city.
step 3
They will demonstrate selected activities and present the results of their observations and research.
step 4
They will organise an exhibition of their model soundproofed houses, share their knowledge about acoustic conditions in rooms for listening to music and for recording sounds, and show the acoustic screens they have designed and made.
step 5
Their acoustic screens will be used to make a recording studio in the school.