NASA
Rxte Learning Center: Frequency, Wave Length, and Energy Activity
Resource focuses on the relationship between the frequency, wavelength and speed of light. Has a link to an interactive activity relating frequency, wavelength, and energy.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Light & Sound, Light Reflection Relay
In this exploration, students will investigate how light reflects off smooth surfaces, learn about angles of reflection, and apply that knowledge in a relay experiment.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Doppler Effect: Lesson 2
This lesson will describe how the doppler effect is created by moving sound waves. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Doppler Effect."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Doppler Effect: Lesson 3
This lesson will describe how the doppler effect is created by moving sound waves. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Doppler Effect."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Doppler Effect: Lesson 1
This lesson will describe how the doppler effect is created by moving sound waves. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Doppler Effect."
Michigan Reach Out
Michigan Reach Out!: Drums (Sounds Like Science)
This site is provided for by Michigan Reach Out. Students experiment with the variables of force, pitch and volume after making a drum.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: To Absorb or Reflect, That Is the Question
This is the last of five sound lessons, and it introduces acoustics as the science of studying and controlling sound. Students learn how different materials reflect and absorb sound.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Sound for Sight
Echolocation is the ability to orient by transmitting sound and receiving echoes from objects in the environment. As a result of a Marco-Polo type activity and subsequent instructional activity, students learn basic concepts of...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Make a Phonograph From Everyday Items
In this physics science fair project, the student will use common materials to play back sound from a vinyl record album. The student will investigate what kinds of materials produce the best sound. The Science Buddies project ideas are...
Other
Deafness Research Uk: How the Ear Works
A collection of several images explains how the ear makes us hear sound.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Signal Horn
Build a signal horn to make low-frequency sounds that can be heard from far away in this STEM lesson. Use this interactive site to document your design process. Included on the site is a video explaining a possible solution to the problem.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: The Doppler Effect
Visit this page to see an animation demonstrating the Doppler Effect. How do sound waves and electromagnetic waves behave similarly with this effect?
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Seafloor: Sonar Boats
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site includes a brief example of how sound detector boats work. It also includes an assessment for students to show their knowledge of using sound waves to predict the depth of water.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Wave Interference: Lesson 1
This lesson will discuss the differences between constructive and destructive wave interference. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Wave Interference."
Other
Dan Sloughter: Trigonometric Series Approximations
Understand how trigonometric functions can model periodic behavior. See the application of periodic behavior, amplitude, frequency in sound waves. Make sure to turn up your sound to load an audio file to play the given tone of the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Wave Interference: Lesson 2
This lesson will discuss the differences in constructive and destructive wave interference. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Wave Interference."
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Standing Waves and Wind Instruments
To explain how musical sounds in aerophones are created by standing waves
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Auditorium Acoustics
Home page for a hypertext physics course on auditorium acoustics and acoustical design.
Science Fun for Everyone
Science Fun: Balloon Speakers
Learn about sound waves with this science experiment. All you need is a balloon!
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Richard Feynman Lecture on Nanotechnology: Tiny Machines
A video lecture from Dr. Richard Feynman exploring tiny machines. Webpage breaks down the lecture into twelve segments. Videos vary in length and explain the science behind nanotechnology. Understand computer chips, sound waves, and the...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Working With a Handmade Oscilloscope
For this activity, students use an oscilloscope to explore the behavior of sound waves.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: String Telephone
Discover how sound vibrations travel across a string by making a telephone from paper cups, string and paper clips.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Resonance
This hypertext physics course surveys sound resonance in musical instruments. Illustrated.
BBC
Bbc: Bitesize: Gcse: Physics: Reflection and Refraction
All waves will reflect and refract in the right circumstances. The reflection and refraction of light explain how people see images, color and even optical illusions. This tutorial discusses each concept and presents an experiment to try...
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