Students explore how vibrations create sound by strumming a rubber band. They feel the vibration of their own vocal chords. Then they explore the motion of sound waves and echoes. They rely on their own hearing to locate others in their...

Get a little batty with life science! This fun simulation game replicates how bats use echolocation to hunt moths in their native Hawaiian habitat. After creating blind folds and discussing some basic principles of echolocation, learners...

Much like Simon Says, this activity will require your class members to remain focused, pay close attention, and to mimic lots of movements from the leader. Consider using this on a rainy day for a PE class, or as a transitional or...

Students explore their five senses by experimenting with classmates. In this blindness lesson, students utilize blindfolds while performing everyday activities and discuss the inherent challenges of not having vision. Students view a...

Teach your young learners some basic line dance steps. Get them moving to increase their heart rates and to have fun. This dance consists of a few steps and there is a part that is for free-style moves. While the written description is...

Students practice with the underhand toss in a fun culminating activity. First, 4-5 students make a circle. All circles should be close enough to the instructor to easily hear the story. Explain that each group be given an object to toss.

Students explore the outdoors. For this poetry lesson, students spend time outdoors and write a poem about what they felt and saw. Students can do this activity in pairs or alone. Students blindfold their partner to focus on sounds and...

Students sing a song while clapping their hands and listening for the first letter of their name. In this attendance activity, students participate in locomotor activities such as turning around and squatting down. Students jump up and...

Students create a dance based on the sounds they hear during a recording of rainstorm. They learn the elements of dance and explore the environment.

Students hold onto a pole in the pool that represents a fireman's pole. When they hear the ding, they go down under the water as far as they can blowing bubbles. They "put out" the fire when they have gone all the way down to the end of...

Seventh graders explore spatial awareness and then choreograph a dance.

Students demonstrate the ability to use basic walking steps in several body directions while demonstrating rhythmic accuracy with their steps. Students discover that dancing makes their heart go faster and is good exercise.

Students practice recognizing and getting into proper position when playing defense.

Learners practice recognizing and getting into proper position when playing basketball defense.

A research paper on the effects of noise pollution on the unborn and the newborn. Prepared by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

This lesson plan investigates sound waves and how the ear hears. Students create a model of the ear using a cardboard tube, plastic wrap, and a sheet of paper.

Very comprehensive, easily indexed site on the technical, ecological, and physiological effects of aviation noise.

A large dictionary of words and terms related to noise control and pollution. A good starting place and/or excellent reference site.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explains the path of a sound wave as it travels through the ear and is interpreted as sound in the brain.

Understand how humans can focus on familiar voices and language over other sounds, by experimenting with what classmates hear when conversations are taking place simultaneously.

An informative site that deals with the parts of the ear and their functions. Text is complemented with pictures.

Find out how your ears work and try an experiment involving your hearing.