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Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Science Projects and Experiments: Sound Pitch

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn by experimenting with science. Project showing how sound waves effect pitch.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Sound (Primary)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This site provides two activities that can be used in the primary elementary classroom. The purpose is to "demonstrate different ways to produce sound."
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Other

Physics of Sound/image Analysis of Sound Pressure

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion on how to locate the sound image based upon the incident and reflected pulse of sound heard at a given location. For those looking for a challenge, follow the links to view derivations of wave equations for sound (uses...
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Hunkins Experiments

Hunkin's Experiments: Sound Experiments

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This group of...
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Sound, Pitch, and Conduction

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Lesson for primary elementary about sound. Students learn about pitch, air conduction, and bone conduction.
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The Franklin Institute

Franklin Institute: Music to Our Ears

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover the connection between sound waves and hearing with this webpage tutorial. Be sure to click on the picture for detailed information.
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Intel Corporation

Intel Engage: Designing Effective Projects: Dangerous Decibels

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate sound in their environment, particularly how sounds impact their lives. At the beginning of the unit, students use online simulations to investigate the properties of sound and learn about the components of a...
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Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: Sound Like a Turkey

For Students 2nd - 5th
An activity where students investigate the sounds created by the friction of fingers moving along a wet string.
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University of New South Wales (Australia)

University of New South Wales: School of Physics: Physiclips

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Concepts of waves and sound are thoroughly presented in animation and film clips.
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University of New South Wales (Australia)

University of New South Wales: School of Physics: Physclips: Standing Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand how standing waves occur in this learning module that includes animations and videos.
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University of New South Wales (Australia)

University of New South Wales: School of Physics: Physclips: Human Sound

For Students 9th - 10th
Get all the information you need to know about human sound in this learning module. Module covers voice production, ear's part in hearing, resonances, and pitch.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Measuring Your Threshold of Hearing

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Energy of Music

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to sound energy concepts and how engineers use sound energy. Through hands-on activities and demonstrations, students examine how we know sound exists by listening to and seeing sound waves. They learn to describe...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Waves, Sound and Light: Longitudinal Pulse

For Students 9th - 10th
The animation portrays a medium as a series of particles connected by springs. In this type of longitudinal wave the particles of the medium vibrate in a direction parallel to the direction of energy transport.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: "The Sound of Music"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will use tuning forks and the CBR to gather sound wave data for students to use to write Sine (or Cosine) functions. In this activity we study waves of known musical notes before studying waves of unknown musical notes. I...
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Other

University of Rhode Island: How Sounds Are Characterized

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource explains how sound is characterized. It provides links to sound properties and their perception as well as properties of waves.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Physics of Hearing: Sound

For Students 11th - 12th
describe sound as a longitudinal wave.By the end of this section, you will be able to define sound and hearing and
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Teachers TryScience

Teachers Try Science: Musical Coat Hangers

For Students 3rd - 8th
From the National Science and Technology Centre in Australia comes this easy experiment that shows how sound waves travel and what materials are good conductors of sound.
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Other

Byju's: Physics: Reflection of Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what happens to a wave when it hits a fixed end or a free end.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Anti Sound Spring

For Students 9th - 10th
Get a visual of how waves travel and interact by using a spring in this activity.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Standing Wave Patterns

For Students 9th - 10th
Educational tutorial highlights standing wave patterns. Discover more about them and be sure to click on the animations for additional study.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Plumbing the Deep: Using Sound Waves to See

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students learn about echolocation: what it is and how engineers use it to "see" things in the dark, or deep underwater. Also, they learn how animals use echolocation to catch their dinner and travel the ocean waters and...
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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Applications of Waves in Your Everyday Life

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a variety of everyday activities and everyday experiences in which waves or sound waves play a role.
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: What Is Sound?

For Students 2nd - 8th
Defines sound, how it travels, the components of a sound wave, the different types, and other fun facts.

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