The 41 slides in a professional development seminar model how to use close reading techniques to examine the many layers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In addition to passages from the novel, slides provide biographical...

Thorough overview of hearing loss in children. Includes information on symptoms, prevention, treatment, and much more.

A very extensive site providing details on hearing and hearing impairment. Includes a diagram of the ear with details on how the ear works, as well as a definition, causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of hearing impairment.

By the end of this section, you will be able to define hearing, pitch, loudness, timbre, note, tone, phon, ultrasound, and infrasound; compare loudness to frequency and intensity of a sound; and identify structures of the inner ear and...

This video segment follows neurophysiologist Allen Counter as he studies an epidemic of hearing loss in Moriussaq, Greenland, one of the quietest places on Earth. Footage from NOVA: "Mystery of the Senses: Hearing."

What causes sound? How do our ears detect sound? How do our brains recognize sound? In this lesson students investigate hearing and discover that sensory receptors in the ears collect sound information and transmit it to the brain, and...

Students are introduced to various types of hearing impairments and the types of biomedical devices that engineers have designed to aid people with this physical disability.

This is a list of 84 problems and exercises to solve based on the content of Chapter 17: Physics of Hearing from the AP Physics online text.

This is a list of 15 questions based on the major concepts presented in Chapter 17: Physics of Hearing from the AP Physics online text.

Look at all the things a child can hear and listen to each day. Book includes audio narration in 19 additional languages with text in English.

This site on Noise-Induced Hearing Loss runs through a variety of topics on the subject and includes a diagram. The topics covered include: How do we hear, What sounds cause NIHL, What are the effects of NIHL, Can NIHL be prevented, What...

Ben's Guide is a fun way to present U.S. Government to students. This site presents a description of the court hearing step in the process of becoming a U.S. Citizen. Links to related sites are available.

This video lesson focuses on the strategy of hearing unfamiliar vocabulary said aloud. The advantages of hearing it said aloud include activating prior knowledge and the brain remembering it better. It offers ways to learn the...

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) distinguishes between the three types of hearing loss. Also provided is information on the seven categories of hearing loss and hearing loss configurations.

This article provides statistics and other information about hearing loss, especially due to listening to loud music with headphones or earbuds. It also focuses on how to prevent hearing loss caused by listening to music. This...

We deal with loud noises in our environment all the time - some we can control and some we can't. Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) can be a problem for kids and teens, especially with the prevalence of earbuds and handheld devices that...

To understand how hearing works, Douglas L. Oliver follows a sound on its journey into the ear. [5:17]

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What do listening to music and riding a bike have in common? It might surprise you to learn that both activities depend on your ears. The ears do more than just...

Read the passage "Pure Tone Audiometry in Diagnosing Hearing Loss," and complete the related five-question quiz.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains how we hear sound, how the ear works, and the different structures of the ear.

Understand the human sense of hearing and how it relates to balance.

How your ears and your brain turn the sound waves out there in the world into the experience of music in your head, remains a mystery to many, but yet we all experience and even enjoy sounds and music. If you're interested in doing a...

Come and learn more about one of the five senses? Hearing is an integral part of our everyday life. To learn more use the activities, experiments, models and more wrapped into this hearing website.

An illustrated explanation of the detection and diagnosis of hearing loss.