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Introduction
In the unit 'Sound and hearing' # developed ~ understanding of the huge variety of sounds and sources of sound ^ has encountered. ^ has related the sounds to ~ sense of hearing and has been introduced to the idea that sounds travel away from a source. ~ experimental and investigative work focused on making, recording and presenting ~ own observations and drawing ~ own conclusions from ~ experiments. The work in this unit also offered opportunities for * to relate ~ understanding of sound and hearing to everyday experiences.
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Sounds
Section 2: Listening to sounds & Section 3: Making different sounds.

^ was able to identify a range of familiar sounds e.g. that's water trickling, that's us singing in assembly.
^ is able to listen carefully to identify different speakers. 
^ is able to identify different ways in which simple musical instruments can make sounds.
^ has grouped instruments and objects and compared how many there are in each group.
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Description
Section 4: Describing sounds

^ was able to describe the sounds ~ had heard using a range of appropriate vocabulary.
^ has recognised that some sounds give us pleasure and others do not.
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Body
Section 5: Body sounds

^ has identified how ~ can make sounds.
^ has recognised that when ^ makes a sound some parts of ~ body moved.
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Hearing
Section 6: How we hear

^ is able to state that ^ hears sounds through ~ ears.
^ has recognised that ~ ears also gave * information about where the sounds were coming from e.g. I pointed to where the buzzer was when I had my eyes shut, I didn't need to see.
^ has suggested how to find out about hearing e.g. you could cover one ear and both ears and listen to the sound .


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Safety
Section 7: Hearing and safety

# recognises that ^ uses ~ hearing to sense danger as well as to communicate and to hear pleasant sounds.
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Loud sounds
Section 8: Loud sounds

^ has identified some very loud sounds.
^ was able to recognise these sounds were louder when ^ was nearer to the source.
^ recognises that loud sounds can be harmful. 


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Testing sound
Section 9: Testing sound and distance

^ is able to state that when ^ is far away ^ can't hear people talking.

^ has measured the distance from ~ position to a sound source using a non-standard measure and recorded ~ measurement.

^ has measured the distance from ~ position to a sound source using a metre stick and recorded ~ measurement.

^ has measured the distance from ~ position to a sound source using a tape measure and recorded ~ measurement.
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Presentation
Section 10: Presenting the results

^ was able to contribute to a chart e.g. a block graph when ^ was presenting ~ results.
# was able to compare different measurements e.g. I stopped nearer to the sound than John stopped.
^ has compared how far ^ was from the two sources when ^ stopped hearing them e.g. I went five metres with the loud source and two metres with the soft source.
# has stated that ^ could hear the louder sound further away than the softer sound.
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