Sound Ideas

Light and sound are the running themes of a read-aloud anthology. Over three weeks, third graders listen to discuss readings in preparation for completing extension activities. Pupils work through the writing process to compose an...

Students are introduced to raptors and their role in the environment. They identify three characteristics of raptors and list several types of raptors found in nature. They discuss their positive and negative experiences with raptors and...

Learn about communication engineers. Students observe a demonstration using a slinky of how to diminish sound with distance. They also learn about Alexander Graham Bell and his invention of the telephone.

For this lesson, students are introduced to communications engineers as people who enable long-range communication. In the lesson demonstration, students discuss the tendency of sound to diminish with distance and model this phenomenon...

After you talk on the telephone, you might want to thank Alexander Graham Bell, the man who made it all possible. He built the first telephone over 100 years ago. Learn more about Alexander Graham Bell in this well-constructed overview...

Students investigate sound as a form of energy. In this energy, forces, and sound lesson plan, students work in pairs to examine how sound travels through solid things as they construct a telephone exchange system using string and tin.

Students study the animal senses. In this animal senses instructional activity, students act out animal movements and make animal sounds. They use "see and hear" cards to play a game in which they find another child with a either "make a...

Students determine the sources of sound. In this auditory discrimination instructional activity, students listen to animal noises and various other noises. As students listen, they identify the sounds that they hear.

Students target which sounds can warn us of danger. Several objects are hidden behind a box or board. They have to listen to the sounds each object makes and guess what it is. They then make a graph of the number of students that prefer...

Pupils discuss how their five senses help to identify objects. They select items from a mystery box and with their eyes closed they attempt to identify the object. They give answers in complete sentences.