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Interactive
Physics Classroom

Name That Harmonic: Strings

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Don't string your class along! Physics scholars discover the fascinating forces behind the music of stringed instruments using an interactive. From a series covering sounds and waves, the interactive asks users to identify nodes and...
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California Department of Education

Instruments of Change: Making a Simple Stringed Instrument (CTE)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What materials and skills does a person need to build a simple working instrument? With the first of four lessons from the Changing One's Tune: A Music Therapy STEM Integrated Project series, scholars learn about the basic structure of...
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Interactive
PhET

Wave on a String

For Students 6th - Higher Ed Standards
The sound waves of thunder are made when lightning very quickly heats the air surrounding it, expanding faster than the speed of sound. Learners explore waves through their own movement of string or set waves to constantly oscillate....
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Assessment
Concord Consortium

Strings and Areas

For Students 9th - 11th Standards
You'd be surprised what you can do with a string! The constraint is the length of string, and the task is to maximize area. Given a series of composite shapes, learners must create a formula for the maximum area for a specified...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Peter's Third String

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Explore the solution to a word problem involving area and perimeter. Learners read and discuss how to approach the problem. In small groups, they determine the maximum area of a rectangle with a given perimeter using a piece of string....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Number Lines and Bead Strings

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students solve addition and subtraction problems using strings of beads and number lines. They mentally perform addition and subtraction problems, and write and solve story problems involving whole numbers.
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Activity
It's About Time

Sounds in Strings

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
How many of your pupils play an instrument? A musical science lesson will help all of them understand how string instruments work. Young scientists construct a string-and-pulley system to test frequency and pitch. The lesson ends with a...
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Lesson Plan
Code.org

User Input and Strings

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils learn to apply strings in computer science. They master two new user interface elements and also use string type data to represent ASCII characters. Finally, individuals create an app for Mad Libs in the eighth instructional...
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Lesson Plan
Exploratorium

Rotating String Shapes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Here is a very interesting way of studying triangles and polygons. Pupils work together and use pieces of string to create a variety of shapes. Depending on how many kids are manipulating the string at any one time, the number of...
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Lesson Plan
Exploratorium

String Shapes

For Teachers K - 2nd
You'd never have guessed it, but simple pieces of string make a fabulous manipulative for the study of geometry! In the fine lesson here, young mathematicians use string to make a variety of polygons. Pupils sit in various configurations...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The World On a String

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students connect a string to one another where they each represent a country and share problems of their imports and exports. In this imports and exports lesson plan, students pull on strings and the students that feel the tug realize...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

String Games

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders show that they can follow directions by successfully making "The Worm" with a string. They reate a string game that they can share with students in Africa.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

String Instruments and Pitch

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students make predictions and explore how pitch is altered in string instruments. For this acoustic science lesson, students learn the types and parts of string instruments and create their own. They listen to classical music and...
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Music Fun

Musical Instruments

For Students 2nd - 12th
Membranophones? Aerophones? How about strings? Percussion? You need not be a music instructor to benefit from a packet of 24 worksheets that introduce aspiring musicians to the various instrument families.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Hooke's Law, Vibrations, Mechanical Waves, and Sound

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Dangle a spring to experiment with vibration and discover if period is dependent on amplitude. Strum a guitar and adjust the strings to compare displacement and sound. Use a Slinky® and guitar strings on a ring stand to uncover the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Musical Instruments - Strings

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore various string instruments in this multi-week music lesson for the upper-elementary grades. Emphasis is placed on group violin lessons, listening to and identifying string instruments, and researching non-European...
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Curated OER

Peter's Second String

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders determine the maximum area and range of areas of a rectangle with a given perimeter. They discuss a word problem involving perimeter and area as a class, investigate the word problem using a piece of string, and in small...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Feel the Vibrations

For Students 3rd - 4th
How does sound travel in a string walkie-talkie? Third graders read about the way vibrations act between two cups and a string. Next, they put the steps in order, and experiment with their own walkie-talkies.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Tall is that Tree?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students use their feet to measure distance between themselves and a tree trunk.  In this distance lesson, students use the number of steps, and string to measure distances and height of the tree.  Students can get the tree height when...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Lines and Strings

For Students 4th - 6th
In this lines and strings worksheet, students connect the letters along the outside of the box with string to create different kinds of lines. Students complete 4 problems.
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Activity
Curated OER

Painted String Art

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students dip string in black paint. In this art lesson, students take a piece of construction paper and fold it in half putting the string on one side of paper making a design with string making lots of circle shapes. Students fold the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

String Telephone

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students construct a string telephone. In this communications lesson, students use a cup, lead pencil, and a piece of string to construct a string telephone. The students test their telephone with a classmate.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

String Eggs

For Teachers K - 8th
Pupils follow instructions to make a string egg and work appropriately and neatly with art materials.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

String Quartet Instruments

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this string quartet music worksheet, students label pictures of a bow, violin, viola, and a cello after reading the definition of a string quartet. They answer 4 multiple choice questions and can complete an extra credit assignment by...

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