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Kindergarten · Science · Unit 5 of 7

Light & Sound

Bright, dark, loud and quiet

What your child practices

Sources of light and sound, loud and quiet, high and low sounds, shadows, and how light passes through glass but not walls.

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: K.P2U1.1 · how our senses detect light, sound and vibration, even from far away

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. The sun and a lamp make their own light.
  2. A shadow forms when something blocks light.
  3. Hit a drum harder to make a louder sound.

Example: What makes a shadow? Light shines on you. Your body blocks the light. Answer: something blocks the light

Light & Sound in Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, this is unit 5 of 7 in Kindergarten Science, after Sky & Seasons and before Animal Survival.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Arizona Department of Education

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which light is natural (not made by people)?

    • 💡a lamp
    • 🔦a flashlight
    • ☀️the sun

  2. Question 2

    Which animal makes a low, deep sound?

    • 🐭mouse
    • 🐦little bird
    • 🐄cow

  3. Question 3

    Does it make its own light? Tap an item, then tap its basket.

    Sort into: ✨ makes light · ⬛ does not make light

    • 🔦flashlight
    • 📕book
    • 💡light bulb
    • 🪨rock
    • 🕯️candle
    • 🌙moon

  4. Question 4

    Is the sound loud or quiet? Tap an item, then tap its basket.

    Sort into: 📢 loud · 🤫 quiet

    • 📖turning a page
    • 🥁drum
    • ❄️snow falling
    • 🪶feather falling
    • 🎺trumpet
    • ✈️jet plane

  5. Question 5

    Which one helps you see in the dark?

    • 📕book
    • 🪞mirror
    • 🔦flashlight

  6. Question 6

    How can you make a drum sound louder?

    🥁
    • 💪hit it harder
    • 🤏hit it softly
    • 🚫don't touch it

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