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A Cup of Sound
Students study sound and how it is created. In this sound waves lesson students complete a lab activity that shows students the variables that affect sound.
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Sounds Like Science - Guitars
Learners discover that all movement produces sound waves but not all sounds can be heard with the human ear. They experiment with a variety of substances to see which are audible and which are inaudible.
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Sounds You See, Hear, and Feel
Young scholars explore and create sound wave vibrations using musical instruments and common objects. They compare/contrast and describe actions that cause sound wave vibrations that can be seen, heard, and felt.
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How Does Sound Travel As Waves?
Seventh graders participate in a number of activities designed to increase their understanding of how sound is generated and how it travels.
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Sounds Good to Me
Young scholars determine density and hardness of wood samples based on several investigations. In this physical science and music instructional activity, students visit four centers and perform tests on wood samples to determine...
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Sounds Like Science: Drums
Students explore the science of sound. In this sound lesson, students craft drums from various materials and respond to questions regarding pitch, force, and volume.
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Pitch
Students experience sounds with different pitches. In this pitch lesson, students use open pipes as they are introduced to pitch, then make Straw Pan Pipes.
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Make a Sound Viewer
Learners see, and thus better understand, the vibrations that sound makes through this simple project.
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Vibration and Pitch
Fifth graders investigate the relation between vibrations and pitch. They observe and discuss an experiment involving a bicycle and a piece of cardboard in the spokes, listen to a comb with cardboard, and listen to various sounds and...
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Sound
Second graders investigate the production of sound through experimentation. Working in pairs, 2nd graders receive supplies to create a sound machine. Once they create their machine and record the differences in the sounds produced.
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Sounds Like Science - Kazoo
Young scholars discover that energy is needed to produce sound. They see that identifying where the energy comes from enables us to control the type of sound produced. They play the kazoo and manipulate the sound in a variety of ways.
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How Can Sounds Be Different
Second graders explore energy and motion. They investigate how sound energy moves in waves. Students explore how sounds are varied and how the instruments that make those sounds are built. They observe sounds being produced and predict...
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Properties of Waves
Third graders observe and investigate wave properties and compare the properties of particles and waves. They fill a pie pan half full with water, place a toothpick in the center of the pie pan, then drop a marble into the pan and...
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Changing Sounds
Students listen to sound. In this changing sounds lesson, students play instruments to help them hear volume and pitch. Students use the interactive whiteboard to experiment how change can make sounds go higher or lower.
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Let's Measure the Speed of Sound
Third graders measure the speed of sound using scientific investigative techniques.
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Sound for Sight
Students study echolocation and understand how dolphins use it to locate prey, escape predators, and navigate their environment. They view a video, "In the Wild-Dolphins with Robin Williams" and see first hand how dolphins communicate. ...
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Ears and Hearing
Learners explore vibrations and sound waves. In this lesson about hearing, students use experiments to determine how sound waves travel. Learners use a saucepan, rice, and a plastic cover for one experiment and a tube, plastic wrap, a...
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Do You Hear What I Hear?
Students study hearing and are able to differentiate between different sound waves. In this sound wave lesson students develop a cause and effect model that shows the parts of the ear.
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Mathematical Models with Applications: The Sounds of Music
Students use an electronic data-collection device to model the sound produced by a guitar string. They identify the graph of a periodic situation and use the graph to determine the period and frequency of sound waves.
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Hilarious Honker
Students investigate sound vibrations by experimenting with a cup. In this sound waves lesson, students utilize a paper or plastic cup, string, and different household items to create different sounds by plucking the string or dropping...
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Sizing Up Sound
Sixth graders are introduced to the concepts of sound waves and frequency. As a class, they listen to the differences between different types of instruments. To end the lesson plan, they practice identifying low and high pitches and...
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Sounds Like Christmas, Exploring Hearing
Students see that the sense of hearing helps us learn from each other through communication. Also, students explain that sound can produce patterns. They engage in a wide variety of activities that focus on the sense of hearing.
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A Stomping Good Time: Using Found Instruments and Invented Rhythms to Make Beautiful Music
Students work in small groups to use everyday objects to create performances inspired by the work of STOMP. They create a system of notation to document the music and movement of a 2-minute performance.