In this module, students investigate the properties and behavior of different types of waves.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the intensity of sound and how it relates to loudness, the decibel levels of different sounds, and factors that affect sound intensity.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What the speed of sound is and its variation in different media, and the effect of temperature on the speed of sound.

Sound Burst is a fun way to experiment with sounds, colors and patterns. Simply tap the keyboard letters and the space bar to reveal different sounds and colorful artworks.

In this interactive demonstration, students will observe while the teacher creates two sound frequencies using open tube resonators of nearly identical length. The nearness in length produces two slightly different frequencies which...

Light travels as transverse waves and can travel through a vacuum. Sound travels as longitudinal waves and needs to travel through a solid, liquid or gas. Read about the properties of light and of sound, and learn the differences between...

In this Physical Science experiment, young scholars investigate how sound travels through different mediums, including solids, liquids, and gases. This particular experiment deals with solids by using a wire hanger and two pieces of...

In this lesson, students explore where sounds come from and the different sounds that animals make.

In this investigation the student will learn about sound waves and vibration. Students will use pipes to understand that the slower an object vibrates the lower the pitch and the faster an object vibrates the higher the pitch. Next...

Here are two tools to use in assessing student understanding of final sounds. One deals with phoneme isolation and one deals with phoneme matching.

This resource provides three different examples of sound boards, and allows you to play them.

In this classroom activity, young scholars will discover that when objects vibrate a sound is produced. Students will first observe different sound sources such as a music box, a sucker toy that has a stick coming out of it, etc. They...

Students learn the connections between the science of sound waves and engineering design for sound environments. Through three lessons, students come to better understand sound waves, including how they change with distance, travel...

A simple, yet effective activity to teach students to identify the same sounds in different words. The teacher says a word and the students give a thumbs up or thumbs down. This site also includes a Word Generator list link as a resource.

The Sound and Light unit provides students with an understanding of sound and light waves through the theme of the "Sunken Treasure," a continuous story line throughout the lessons. In Lessons 1-5, students learn about sound, and in...

Students follow the steps of the engineering design process to create their own ear trumpet devices (used before modern-day hearing aids), including testing them with a set of reproducible sounds. They learn to recognize different...

Learn about the different sounds in English. For adult learners.

This lab is designed to have students investigate the relationship between the distance from an explosion and the time it takes the sound of the explosion to reach the observer. The temperature of the air can be changed by changing the...

This site provides two activities that can be used in the primary elementary classroom. The purpose is to "demonstrate different ways to produce sound."

A useful chart containing computer sound card drivers from different companies. Also answers the questions "How to determine what type of sound card I have?" and "Where do I locate motherboard sound drivers?"

A slideshow and a short quiz on the different types of renewable energy sources.

In this succinct lesson plan, students will compare the sounds produced by tuning forks and observe the behavior of sound waves in different media.

Students will perform an investigative activity in which they will identify sounds. The teacher will play several different sounds through the computer and sound system. Students will listen and act as "detectives" to relate sounds to...

Homepage for a hypertext about the different families of musical instruments. From this page, users can retrieve information on a the acoustics of a variety of specific instruments: stringed instruments, woodwind instruments, brass...