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Science Friday

Make a Model Eardrum to Detect Sound Waves

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Make sound waves visible with an experiment that asks middle schoolers to build a model ear drum using plastic bottles, rubber bands, plastic wrap, and sand-like substances.
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A Story About the Ear

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Travel through the ear! Use this comprehensive presentation to cover hearing, hearing loss and the treatments paired with different types of hearing loss. Slides are too text-heavy for learners to copy, so provide them with a...
Unit Plan
Next Generation Science Storylines

How Can We Sense so Many Different Sounds from a Distance?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Dive into the mystery of sound waves!  Scholars brainstorm questions about how sound travels and why different items make different sounds. They then conduct experiments to answer their questions.
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TE Activity: Sound Line

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the decibel readings of various noises. They determine why high-level readings damage hearing. Students arrange sound from the lowest to highest decibel levels when they written on a piece of paper.
Lesson Plan
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Sense of Hearing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Create a graphic organizer to review parts and systems of the body, then present a new topic. Special education students grades 3-5 learn about the sense of hearing. They draw parts of the ear, sign a song, read Perk Up Your Ears, and...
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The Jovian Basketball Hoop

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A radio receives radio signals, converts them to an electrical signal, then converts this signal to a sound signal, and amplifies the sound so people can hear it. Class members use this information to create a short-wave radio antenna...
PPT
Mr. E. Science

Sound

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Since light travels faster than sound, some people may appear bright until you hear them speak. The presentation covers what sound is, how fast it travels in various mediums, properties of sound, hearing, and the parts of the human...
Lesson Plan
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The Halls are Alive with the Sound of Music

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss physical places in which had good or bad acoustics. After reading an article, they discover the relationship between the physics of sound and concert hall acoustics. They calculate the speed of sound and compare their...
Lesson Plan
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Now Hear This!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create a model of the inner ear. In this hearing lesson, students follow a series of directions to build a working model of the inner ear, then observe how the parts react to a variety of sounds.
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Directing Sound Waves

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students learn that sound waves can be directed and collected. In this sound wave experiment, students create and collect sound waves. Students learn sound waves travel differently through different states of matter.
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Sound Energy

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders understand properties and behavior of heat, light, and sound. They describe the production of sound in terms of vibration of objects that create vibrations in other materials. Students describe how sound is made from...
Lesson Plan
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The Human Heart

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the human heart and the circulatory system. They observe how exercise affects the heart rate and how blood vessels carry blood through the heart and body. Students observe how the blood is carried to and from the...
Lesson Plan
Kenan Fellows

Sensors, Sensors…..Everywhere! Middle School Meteorologist Create Weather Bots!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
My forecast is that you'll want to use the resource. Pupils design and create a weather bot as part of a project-based unit. These bots should be able to measure temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed and direction, and...
Worksheet
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How the Ear Receives Sound

For Students 4th - 8th
In this biology worksheet, students identify how the ear receives sound by using the information given to cut and paste each section to complete a flow chart that illustrates this. They lightly color each section of the flow chart to...
Worksheet
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Sounds Around

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this sounds worksheet, students choose one of five activities to do at home with parents. Students experiment with making sounds with natural objects, list "noisy" foods or count all the outdoor sounds that can be heard.
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Science, Sounds And Hearing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine various sounds that are played on musical instruments. They conduct an experiment to listening to different instruments. They define significant vocabulary like "vibration" and "oscillation". Students suggest ways that...
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1 - 3 - 6 Plan!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a variety of activities in order to increase knowledge about The Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program. They build a model of the ear and demonstrate to the instructor the anatomy of the ear and explain the...
Worksheet
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Wave Speed

For Students 9th - 12th
For this waves worksheet, students use the equation for wave speed to calculate frequency or wavelength. This worksheet has 5 problems to solve.
Lesson Plan
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Come to Your Senses

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore their senses. For this biology lesson plan, students will learn about their senses, what affects them, and how the brain works to control our senses in a series of lab activities.
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Treacherous Trash

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students recognize the harmful effects people have on the environment. For this environmental lesson, students simulate water pollution clean-up by using tangled objects and untangling them in a cooperative group. Students identify why...
Lesson Plan
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Science: Why Animals Hibernate

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the reasons animals hibernate. They measure their own heart rates and compare them to those of a hibernating bear. In their journals, 2nd graders record facts about and characteristics of hibernation and...
Worksheet
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Ear Parts

For Students 3rd - 12th
In this ear parts worksheet, students match parts to definitions and label an ear diagram. Students complete 12 problems on this worksheet.
Lesson Plan
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Nature Reflections

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students have a greater appreciation for the nature around them. They participate in a series of reflection exercises. Students encounter blindfolds, and bandannas with cardboards as bases.
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Learning About Weather

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students decide what type of weather they would like to write about such as tornadoes, hurricanes, snow, hail, floods, or another type of weather. Then, they look up the information and jot down notes about that particular subject....