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CREATIVE Rational - The teacher goes behind a desk or elevated bookcase so the pl of child cannot see what she is doing. She rings a bell and asks the pl of child to guess what she did. She repeats this with many objects that pl of child cannot identify. She then writes a minute on a piece of document, and again, asks what she did. The pl of child say they don't know because they can't see or perceive by the ear. Now, face the pl of child and ask "What sense were you using before?" "Sense of hearing. Without hearing it is impenetrable to learn about the cosmos. We would have to use another sense. Sense of hearing is one of the five senses that we use to get a knowledge of about the world we be alive in. Lets ventilate the things we heard on. Were all the sounds we heard delightful? Was there noise? Minstrelsy? Did you hear laugh? Crying? What did you get a knowledge of about the world through the faculty of perception of hearing?"

World of matter and of mind SOUNDS - Secure a tape of different nature or living being sounds. Have pl of child guess what makes the sounds by matching sounds to engraving cards.

Wet MARIMBA -Have made of wood spoon or rod, seven or eight spectacles that are the same shape and magnitude. Fill several same-size tippling glasses with moisten at different levels and pound lightly with a made of wood spoon or switch. Ask "Did all the bottles have the same amount of irrigate
in them?" "Did all the bottles have the same amount of air in them?"(No, the ones that had a lot of moisten had only a little bit of air at the top.) "When you were hitting the spectacles in the water marimba, what was vibrating?"(The spectacles and the air were vibrating. That is why all the spectacles have to be the same shape and altitude, otherwise the sounds would be separate.) "What was vibrating that was causing the bottles to create different sounds?"(The air interior part the bottle.)

Give ear CAREFULLY - Have a bony excrescence, bell, summons to arms clock, whistle and other objects that create noise. Take them out of a bag one at a duration. Have the children prove to be identical the objects. After they have named it, bring into being a noise...

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