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Sounds like Science

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create sound effects to produce a radio drama. In this sound lesson, 2nd graders read a book and provide the sound effects to transform it into a radio drama. They discuss sound and the shape of sound waves based on their...
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Good Vibrations

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th Standards
Visualize vibrations within the classroom. Pupils see the connection between sound and waves. The learners use a tuning fork in two different ways to demonstrate the waves associated with sound. Scholars see how the sound waves from a...
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Sound: What is Sound and how does it travel?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners learn that vibration makes different types of sounds. In this sound lesson, students perform experiments to understand vibrations and high and low pitch sounds. Learners learn that sound travels differently through different...
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Sound

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify sources and importance of sound, discuss sounds heard on way to school, explain why sound waves can be "seen", and participate in various classroom activities and experiments that illustrate how sound travels.
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What Does Motion Have to do with Sound?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate and explore sound energy. They investigate how the vibrational motion moves through matter in waves. Students describe sounds and vibrations. They observe that vibrational motion creates sounds. Students record...
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Sound

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students identify sources of sound, explain why people can't see sound waves and change the tone and volume of sound waves.
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What is Sound?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss sound and describe them.  For this investigative lesson students observe sound through their eyes, bodies and ears.
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The Phenomenon of Sound: Waves

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore sound waves. In this sound waves activity, students brainstorm different sounds and how sounds move or travel. Students then create a KWL chart and work through six different lab activities to examine how sound waves...
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Sound Vibrations - Senses

For Teachers K - 5th
Students experience vibrations using several of their senses, and design a test that uses their sense of hearing to judge the effectiveness of different solids to transmit sound vibrations.
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Sounds

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars explore the concept of sound. In this sound lesson, students explore different sounds and the objects that create them. Young scholars will discover, through several hands-on activities, what vibration, pitch, and...
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Science of Sound- Music Sandwich

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate the science of sound. In this music lesson, students create sound and vibration by constructing a "music sandwich." Students use craft sticks, an elastic band, and a drinking straw to create the musical instrument.
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Sound Vibrations

For Teachers K - 5th
Students play their own straw kazoos and understand that vibrations are responsible for the sounds we hear. Additionally, they learn that sound vibrations can travel through different mediums. Students experience vibrations through...
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Strange Sounds

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students investigate sound as a form of energy. In this energy, forces, and sound lesson plan, students explore how different sounds may be made as they make a variety of materials vibrate. Students observe the effects of vibrations and...
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Sound

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify and explain these vocabulary words: vibration, volume, pitch, particles, tuning forks, waves and matter. They explain that sound travels through gas, liquid and solid. They be
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Sound/Pitch

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students explore how pitch changes when using instruments that are plucked, blown, and hit. In this sound and pitch lesson, students blow across the top of bottles that are filled with water to create sound. Students use recorders...
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Observing Sound

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study the five senses and the link between pictures and sound.  In this sound lesson students discover that sound is vibration, it is described by volume and pitch.
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Sound Observations

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore sound waves by conducting an experiment in class. In this sound frequency instructional activity, students utilize a tuning fork in class and identify which objects in class create different sound pitches on the fork....
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What is a Sound?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore the concept of sound. For this sound lesson, 2nd graders discover what sound, vibrations, and pitch are through several experiments. Students watch a Power Point presentation that allows them to complete a graphic...
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Finding Your Big Voice

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars use their diaphragm to create vocal vibrations, vocal sounds, and project sounds through an open space. In this sounds lesson plan, students learn how to use their voices to project through an auditorium.
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The Vibrational Nature of Sound

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students explore the vibrational nature of sound. In this science lesson plan, students gain an understanding of sound frequency, pitch, and conduction using the string telephone, tuning fork and musical glasses experiments.
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Vibrations

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore how vibrations create sound by strumming a rubber band. They feel the vibration of their own vocal chords. Then they explore the motion of sound waves and echoes. They rely on their own hearing to locate others in their...
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How Can Sounds Be Different

For Teachers 2nd
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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Changing Sounds

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to sound. In this changing sounds instructional activity, 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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A Cup of Sound

For Teachers K - 9th
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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