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Colliding cogs
Fire a cog from the cannon. Different sounds are generated as it collides with the various objects. You can also click or tap around the objects to make sounds.
Discussion points
- What can you hear?
- Which object is your favourite sound?
- What happens when you fire out lots of cogs?
- What do you like about the different sounds you can hear?
- What do you notice when you fire out lots of cogs?
- What is the same/different about the sounds?
Teaching tips:
Let children explore and free-play with the different sounds which can be created. They could move their bodies to the sounds and develop vocabulary by describing them.
This is a great music introduction activity ready to move onto the other Noisy Things activities such as ‘Pitch play’ and ‘Bouncing beat’ which require a more structured approach.
Develop listening skills by asking children to close their eyes whilst you play one of the sounds. Can they guess which sound you played?
Pair with ‘Sound garden’ for more exploration of combining different sounds.
This is a great music introduction activity ready to move onto the other Noisy Things activities such as ‘Pitch play’ and ‘Bouncing beat’ which require a more structured approach.
Develop listening skills by asking children to close their eyes whilst you play one of the sounds. Can they guess which sound you played?
Pair with ‘Sound garden’ for more exploration of combining different sounds.
This activity is great for musical exploration and for children to hear the effect of combining sounds together. br>
Use this as an introduction activity ready to move onto the other Noisy Things activities such as ‘Pitch play’ ‘Bouncing beat’ and ‘Cog composer’ which require a more structured approach.
Develop listening skills by asking children to close their eyes whilst you play one of the sounds. Can they guess which sound you played?
Alternatively, offer a selection of instruments and allow children free-play time to explore and experiment with the sounds they make. Ask them to create a simple performance to share with the rest of the class.
Play with ‘Sound garden’ for more sound combination fun. Science: Children could try grouping untuned instruments which sound/look similar to each other.
Use this as an introduction activity ready to move onto the other Noisy Things activities such as ‘Pitch play’ ‘Bouncing beat’ and ‘Cog composer’ which require a more structured approach.
Develop listening skills by asking children to close their eyes whilst you play one of the sounds. Can they guess which sound you played?
Alternatively, offer a selection of instruments and allow children free-play time to explore and experiment with the sounds they make. Ask them to create a simple performance to share with the rest of the class.
Play with ‘Sound garden’ for more sound combination fun. Science: Children could try grouping untuned instruments which sound/look similar to each other.
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