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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Antarctica: How Are Sounds Useful to Us?

For Students K - 1st
Paul is a researcher on Antarctica. The topic of his research is sounds. Identify which objects make sounds, and learn to recognize different sounds.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Let's Hear It for the Ear!

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to learn about the body part that is responsible for collecting sounds, processing them and sending them to your brain. See all the inner workings of the ear through great diagrams. Available in Spanish.
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Other

Bscs: Sound Lesson 1: Sound Makers

For Teachers K - 1st
How can you tell if something is making a sound? This lesson will show that to produce sound, an object must vibrate. Included are a minute-by-minute lesson plan, activities, and teacher discussion points and questions.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Seeing and Feeling Sound Vibrations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the existence of sound by listening to and seeing sound waves while conducting a set of simple activities as a class or in pairs at stations. Students describe sound in terms of its pitch, volume and frequency. They use...
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National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: Language and Linguistics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The language we use everyday reveals a great deal about who we are and where we come from. However, did you know that language is linked to psychology, biology, and other sciences? Explore the "science" of language: how the brain...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Growing Up Different: In Tune

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the science of sound and the human ear, and explain how this applies to the operation of cochlear implants for the deaf. Observe how structures can be "tuned" to respond to different frequencies.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Word Families: Ig and Ip

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This technology-based lesson will help students develop their phonemic awareness by teaching students to hear the sounds in the -ig and -ip word families. It also leads students to apply what they have learned.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Biology for Kids: Hearing and the Ear

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the science of hearing and the ear. A sense that detects sound.
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Songs for Teaching

Sciences Songs All Day Long: Nocturnal Animals

For Students Pre-K - 1st
By listening to this song your students will learn all of the animals that are awake during the night. They will equate the sounds they hear at night with the animals and their sounds in the song.
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Treehut

Suzy's World: Ears

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find out how your ears work and try an experiment involving your hearing.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Killdeer

For Students 9th - 10th
The Killdeer is famous for using the broken wing diversion to lure predators away from its nest. Find out more interesting facts and hear the sounds of this interesting bird on this detailed site.
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Other

Arizona Sonora Desert Museum: Animal Fact Sheet: Anna's Hummingbird

For Students 9th - 10th
This fact sheet on Anna's hummingbird provides details on physical characteristics, adaptations, range, habitat, conservation, diet, and other interesting facts. Click the link to hear how Anna's hummingbird sounds.
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Music Education

Learn About Instruments: The Winds

For Students 3rd - 8th
This tutorial teaches students about the flute, piccolo, and saxophone. It features sound clips so that you can hear examples of each instrument being played.

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