Lesson

Hearing City Mouse and Country Mouse

Date

11/26/14

Subject/Gra
de Level

Science/Grade 1

Time
Duratio
n

35-40 minutes

Unit

The Five Senses

Teacher

Freya Longland

OUTCOMES FROM ALBERTA PROGRAM OF STUDIES

General
Learning
Outcomes:
Specific
Learning
Outcomes:

19 Use the senses to make general and specific observations, and communicate
observations orally and by producing captioned pictures.
110 Describe the role of the human senses and the senses of other living things, in
enabling perception and action.
1. Identify each of the senses, and explain how we use our senses in interpreting the
world.
2. Identify ways that our senses contribute to our safety and quality of life.
5. Recognize that other living things have senses, and identify ways that various
animals use their senses; e.g., sensing danger, finding food, recognizing their own
young, recognizing a potential mate.
6. Describe ways that people adapt to limited sensory abilities or to the loss of a
particular sense; e.g., colour blindness, inability to see objects at close range.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Student will:
Use their hands and bodies to make a Rainstorm.
Understand how making a Rainstorm is achieved by using our senses.
Make sound effects in the appropriate places of The Country Mouse and The City Mouse.
Recognize a connection between the story The City Mouse and The Country Mouse and our
hearing sense.
Complete a Country and City Sounds worksheet.

ASSESSMENTS
Observations:

Key Questions:

Products/Performan
ces:

Listen for contributed answers to questions about the hearing sense.

Observe as students they create a rainstorm.
Observe as students they contribute sound effects to the story.
Observe as students complete Country and City sounds worksheets.
What are the five senses?
What do we use our ears for?
Why do you think the noises of the city bothered the country
mouse and not the city mouse?
What might a mouse use his hearing sense for?
A Rainstorm using hands and body.
A reading of The City Mouse and The Country Mouse with sounds effects.
City Mouse Country Mouse Worksheets (2).

LEARNING RESOURCES CONSULTED

Alberta Programs of Study Science

?City and County sounds lesson plan.

MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT

The City Mouse and The Country Mouse

story.
iPad (to record story)
City Mouse Country Mouse worksheets
(2).

PROCEDURE
Prior to lesson

Consider:

Attention Grabber
Assessment of Prior

Have book and worksheets ready.

Introduction
Ask students if they remember what we have been learning
in science?

Time
2 min

Knowledge
Expectations for
Learning and Behaviour
Advance
Organizer/Agenda
Transition to Body

Consider:
Variety of Learning
Styles
Questioning throughout
Differentiation for
students
Focused formative
assessment

Help students recall the five senses Lets point to our

five senses.
- Students might recall both eyes and seeing, for
example.
Ask students, Which sense have we been learning
about? hearing. What do we use our ears for?
What have you heard with your ears today?
Body
Rainstorm
We will do this while students are sitting on the carpet.
Have students create a rainstorm. First, start by quietly
rubbing our hands together, then lightly snap or clap, slap
their thighs, stomp their feet. Do the actions backwards and
return to quiet, light rain.
Repeat one more time, this time with students standing up.
Make sure students are listening and copying me before we
start.
Afterwards, have students put their chairs back, and have a
seat crisscross.
Ask students, What senses did we use to make a
rainstorm?
Town Mouse, Country Mouse
Tell students, I am going to tell us a story today about
a City mouse and a Country mouse.
- Discuss the two places ask students where do they
live? What do we know about the city? The country?
Read the story of The City Mouse and The Country Mouse.
Explain to students that sometimes, we dont have pictures
and we have to listen carefully with our ears and use our
hearing sense.
Re-read, and this time encourage the students to make the
sound effects. Use cut-outs on popsicle sticks to help:
- City sounds
- Jackhammers
- Police Officer
- Country sounds
After rehearsing the play, we will sit in a circle on the carpet
area and record the story using an iPad. Explain that before
television was invented, people used to gather around the
radio to listen to plays and stories. Have students gather
around and listen back. Ask them what they heard with their
ears.
Ask students: Why do you think the noises of the city
bothered the country mouse and not the city
mouse?
Why do you think the noises of the country
bothered the city mouse and not the country
mouse?
What might a mouse use his hearing sense for?

Time

6 min

12 min

12 min

County sounds and City sounds worksheet

We will compete the City/country sounds worksheet first as
a class, and make the drawings together. When they are
finished, students will work on the other side, I live in the.

Students can color the pictures when they are done.

Closure

Time

Consider:

Consolidation of
Learning
Feedback from
Students
Feedback to Students
Transition to Next
Lesson

Sponge
Activity/Activities

Reinforce that we can use our ears to hear so many things.

When we dont have pictures (like in the book we read),
can we still understand the story? How? using our
ears.

2 min

Rainstorm OR listen to recording again. OR read City and Country

mouse book.