Curated OER
Are You My Mother Game
Students identify unknown sounds using their sense of hearing. They predict what objects were for the "Mother" game.
Curated OER
Determining Red-Shift in a Receding Star
Students practice manipulating algebra formulas with more than one variable. They examine the topics of velocity, wavelength and frequency. They determine the amount of red-shift in a receding star.
Curated OER
Earthquake!
Students study causes, probability and location of earthquakes. They complete a number of activities and look at web pages to examine the characteristics of earthquakes.
Curated OER
Locate-a-quake
Student, use seismic readings of the same earthquake from three recording stations and locate the epicenter of an earthquake on a map.
Curated OER
Talking Tubes
Students study the theory that sound travels through a variety of instruments. They explore all the channels of the ear and its various purposes. Students test objects to see which ones were vibrating to make sound heard.
Curated OER
Energy: Light -- Spinning Color Wheel
Second graders make spinning color wheels to determine how energy effects what colors look like. They paint or color a color wheel with the seven colors of the spectrum. Next, the spin the wheel to determine what happens. In order to...
Curated OER
The Human Ear
Students explore the human ear. For this biology lesson plan, students develop a better understanding of the various parts of the human ear as they explore a hands-on apparatus.
Curated OER
Tomography
In this tomography worksheet, students read about how tomography is used to help oceanographers learn more about the Earth's surface below the ocean. Students complete 3 short answer questions based on the reading.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sound Waves: Interactive Lesson
Learn about sound waves, which move vibrations from one place to another through liquids, gases and solids, with this interactive lesson.
Utah State Office of Education
Utah Science: Properties and Behaviors of Heat, Light and Sound
How can scientists lump heat, light and sound together when investigating properties and behaviors? This learning module will address that question through a series of activities.
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: 8.2 Sound Waves
Eighth graders develop ideas related to how sounds are produced, how they travel through media, and how they affect objects at a distance.
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: Unit 8.2 Sound Waves
In this unit, 8th graders develop ideas related to how sounds are produced, how they travel through media, and how they affect objects at a distance.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Vibrations of Sound
Lesson about sound waves of high and low sounds. Students learn through a website, activites with rope, rulers and rubber bands on cups, and with Audacity software. Lesson is written for early elementary music students but could also be...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Waves and Sound: Slinky Lab Interactive
Manipulate this virtual slinky that consists of a collection of dots to represent its coils. Grab a coil, and shake it back and forth to create vibrations which travel through the slinky from the location where it is shook to the ends...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Beats and Interference of Sound Waves Review
Review of how to produce beats through the constructive and destructive interference of sound waves.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Pitch and Frequency
Use this interactive physics tutorial to introduce students to the concepts of pitch and frequency in sound waves.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Transverse and Longitudinal Waves
The physics tutorial illustrates and explains the distinction between transverse and longitudinal waves. Related links provided.
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Nasa Online: Matter and Molecules
An animation briefly explaining how vibrations create sound waves.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Waves and Sound: Standing Wave Patterns Interactive
Students investigate the formation of standing waves, the vibrational patterns associated with the various harmonics, and the difference between transverse and longitudinal standing waves.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Forced Vibration
With videos, illustrated diagrams, and informational text, students learn about sound waves as forced vibrations.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Energy, Light and Sound: Sound
A video and a short quiz on how sound travels in waves, its properties, and how to measure it.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Natural Frequency
Through animations, videos, and text, students discover that all objects have a natural frequency or set of frequencies at which they vibrate.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Sound Waves
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of sound, what sound waves are, how they are generated and what media they can travel through.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Waves and Music: Resonance
The focus of this physics tutorial is on the application of mathematical relationships and standing wave concepts to musical instruments in three general categories of instruments: instruments with vibrating strings, open-end air column...