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Hearing or Sound?
In this hearing worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer by filling in the steps between matter vibrating and hearing the sound.
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How Do Waves Transfer Energy?
In this energy transfer worksheet, students will write down the 4 steps in the sequence that shows how waves transfer energy.
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How is Sound Made?
In this sound worksheet, students will fill in the blank of 4 facts based on what sound different objects make. Based on those facts, students will write in a conclusion about how sound is made.
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Sound Crossword Puzzle Answers
In this sound worksheet, students are provided with the answers for a crossword puzzle containing 18 vocabulary terms related to sound.
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Acoustics and You: Learning About the Science of Sound
In this sound worksheet, learners engage in six different activities that familiarize them with terms related to sound. Activities include word search, word scramble, crossword puzzle, matching and maze.
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Phonemic Segmentation
Young scholars shown how to hear and manipulate the sound in words. They isolate the first sound in a word, the last sound in a word, and all the sounds in a word. Students are told that they are going to hear words and they need to...
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ABC Book
Students create a class alphabet book. They correctly illustrate a letter with a picture using the corresponding sound. Students also read and discuss various alphabet books and decide on what theme their book will have, for example,...
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Fifth Grade Lesson Plan
Fifth graders analyze and practice the musical concept tone color. They assess how the quality of a sound is affected by the material, shape and size of the source. Each student determines whether a passage is performed in a high or low...
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The Remarkable Farkle McBride
Second graders analyze and practice the musical concept of sound and assess how the quality of sound is affected by the way the sound is produced. They identify how a sound is produced from an instrument by relating it to an instrument...
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"Land of 1,000 Dances!"
Third graders distinguish between changes in pitch. They interpret and analyze different pitches being sounded at the same time. Students recognize and analyze a different style from a different ensemble. They listen to different melodies.
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Speed of Sound
Students investigate the concept of velocity and apply it to the velocity of sound and measure the velocity of sound by measuring the echoes produced in a tube. They show their calculation of time and speed, and then conclude that sound...
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How a Circuit Works
Students discover the basic principles of circuits by designing and testing some of their own. They are told that circuits usually have a power source such as a battery and a resistor such as a light. Students make a circuit using a...
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Drums and Sound
Through discussion, demonstration, and observation of
performances by drum groups, learners discover how vibrations
create sounds. Through exploration students can infer that when drums are struck they make noise due to vibrations.
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Science, Sounds And Hearing
Students examine various sounds that are played on musical instruments. They conduct an experiment to listening to different instruments. They define significant vocabulary like "vibration" and "oscillation". Students suggest ways that...
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Lend Me Your Ear
Students engage in a lesson to investigate some of the properties of sound. They create sounds and listen to the vibrations that are made while listing all the sounds that are heard. This is done while the eyes are closed to strengthen...
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Energy Source
Sixth graders work in groups. They are given one type of energy to research. Students look through the different magazines or newspapers to identify pictures that show their type of energy. Students glue their pictures to the...
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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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Sound
Second graders answer the question "What is a sound system?" They investigate sound systems and explain how sound is produced. Students visit the sound museum and at each station they predict how sound is made. They construct a simple...
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Good Vibrations
Students demonstrate sound waves and make changes in the waves
resulting in changes in pitch. Students associate changes in pitch in various "musical instruments"with size and shape and the sound waves they produce.
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Developing Cause & Effect Understanding in Severely Multiply
Students with severe multiple impairments determine ways to use a single access switch to create sounds and images on the computer screen. They follow a variety of teacher cues to access the sound card and images until they reach an...
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Icky, Icky, Sticky!
Students explore phonemes in spoken words as well as their corresponding graphemes in written words. They practice the short vowels /i/ and /e/. Students perform activities to practice sounds. They identify pictures with a particular...
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Curricular Correlations
First graders listen to prerecorded sounds and put them into categories. They discus the sounds that would be heard outdoors, and indoors. They go outside for a few minutes and take a "hearing walk." Then they come inside and close their...
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Sound
Second graders study how sound is produced by vibrations and is transmitted through matter in all directions. They observe how sounds are produced and identify the ways in which sound travels.
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The Sounds of Summer
Students experiment with measuring the speed of sound in an open field by clapping hands and measuring the time delay between the clap and hearing the sound at a long distance. Students practice solving equations at completion of activity.