These are asynchronous experiences for children in ELC settings and early level classes.

Option 1 – Digital quiz.

To participate in Scottish Digital Literacy Week 2025, we invite you to take part in The Big Listening Quiz, during Scottish Digital Literacy Week (Monday 12th- Friday 16th May).

The Big Listening Quiz is an audio quiz, where you will activate both your sense of sight and your sense of hearing.  What body parts do we need to pay particular attention to?

The quiz will have a variety of sounds (audio recordings) to listen to and a choice of pictorial answers. Once you think you have identified the sound, select the answer and move through each sound until you have reached the end.

You can try as many times as you like to try to beat your score!

Link to The Big Listening Quiz

 

Option 2 – Create your own digital Quiz

If you would like to recreate your own audio quiz you can use the template below:

Link to duplicate a copy of my own audio quiz 

This quiz was created using Microsoft Forms within Glow.

The audio clips were downloaded from the BBC Sounds Effects website.

The videos were collated in Adobe Express within Glow (using a generative AI image tool, then layered with the audio clip).

 

Option 3 – Capture your own sounds.

Using recording apps/voice memo apps or devices such as talking buttons, invite children to experiment with recording various sound clips in and around your setting or local environment. Or search for interesting sounds on the BBC Sounds Effects website.

Play back the sounds and ask others if they can identify them. Remember to take  a note of what sounds you capture.

You can also record a video and hide the screen when asking others to guess the sound.

If you capture lots of sounds, you could make your own matching or listening lotto game by taking photos or drawing pictures of what makes the sounds.

 

Option 4. Audio interpretation.

Using Screening Shorts within Glow or an alternative video streaming platform you can access in your local authority/organisation, select a short film clip appropriate for the children in your setting, cover the screen and invite them to listen to the audio and describe what they can hear and explain what they interpret is happening.

E.g.,

Invite children to carefully listen and describe the sounds that can be heard in the clip and take it in turns to mime/act out who or what they think is making the sound. Uncover the screen and play the clip again while watching the visuals and ask children to compare their initial predictions with the clip content.

Video clip examples:

Baboon On The Moon — Christopher Duriez, 2002 | Screening Shorts

Little Wolf — An Vrombaut, 1992 | Screening Shorts

Train of Thought — Jonathan Hogson, 1985 | Screening Shorts (abstract clip, shape, colour, pattern)