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How Do Sounds Change?
In this sounds worksheet, students compare how different pitches and volumes of sounds are created. This worksheet is a graphic organizer.
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Experimenting with Sound
Young scholars explore physical science by completing a worksheet. In this sound perception instructional activity, students collaborate in small groups to research sound properties on the Internet and in libraries. Young scholars...
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Sound
In this physics activity, students use the clues given on the bottom of the sheet to complete the crossword puzzle on sound. There are 18 clues to solve in the puzzle.
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Sounds Good to Me
Middle schoolers determine density and hardness of wood samples based on several investigations. In this physical science and music lesson, students visit four centers and perform tests on wood samples to determine densities and...
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How We Hear
Students study how sounds are transmitted from the environment to the brain. In this investigative lesson students participate in activities that show them how we hear, what sound waves are and the difference in seeing and feeling...
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When It Comes to Sound, I'm All Ears!
Students discover how sound is produced and how sound travels. Through inquiry, problem solving and hands-on activities, students explore high and low sounds and the mediums in which sound travels best.
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Sound
Young scholars 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
In this sound learning exercise, students understand how sound is created and how the human ear "hears." Students compare the frequency, amplitude, and speed of sound. Then students complete 10 matching, 7 fill in the blank, and 11 short...
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Sounds Good To Me - Instrument Creation
Third graders differentiate between pitch and volume and explain how sound travels through different materials. They analyze sound waves for their basic characteristics. Students design an instrument based on the principles of sound...
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Vibrations
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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Make a Sound Viewer
Students see, and thus better understand, the vibrations that sound makes through this simple project.
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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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Design of Music Instruments for a Rock Band
Can you create a rock band? Scholars learn about the creation and transmission of sound in a hands-on STEM activity. First, they explore the transmission of sound using a tuning fork. Then, they must solve the problem of missing...
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Sound and Hearing
Students explore how sound travels. In this sound lesson plan, students complete seven activities where they observe the different characteristics of sound. Students make sound, watch sound happen, and learn about the ear. Students gain...
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Standing Waves
For this standing waves worksheet, high schoolers read about standing waves, their nodes, their anti-nodes and their wavelengths. They are given diagrams of harmonics and the equation to find the frequency of harmonics. Students match...
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Sound for Sight
Young scholars 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...
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Sound and Hearing
In this sounds activity, students will review how sound is created by vibrations. Students will understand what creates vibrations and how the ear receives those sound waves. This activity has 10 fill in the blank, 9 multiple choice, 1...
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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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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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Sounds Like Science - Guitars
Students 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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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 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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Make a Speaker
Make science come in loud and clear. Pupils learn about how a speaker works by building one. The scholars first learn about electromagnetic fields by building an electromagnet. Using that knowledge, they build a crude speaker using a...
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Kinetic and Potential Energy
In this kinetic and potential energy learning exercise, students read for information and evaluate comprehension. In this multiple choice and fill in the blanks learning exercise, students answer fifteen questions.