Sounds Around

Clop, clop, clop goes the coconut shell! By cutting a coconut open and removing the insides, you can create a percussion instrument for your elementary music class or to use with a lesson on sound.

Long, rippled, plastic tubes are swung around in circles, making air pass through them, and creating sound waves. This is a simple and inexpensive toy that you can let learners experiment with as they learn about sound and pitch. Go...

Long, rippled, plastic tubes are swung around in circles, making air pass through them, and creating sound waves. This is a simple and inexpensive toy that you can let learners experiment with as they learn about sound and pitch. Go...

Students learn that sound waves can be directed and collected. In this sound wave experiment, students create and collect sound waves. Students learn sound waves travel differently through different states of matter.

Students observe a variety of sounds which can be heard within their schoolyard habitat by sitting quietly by themselves for five minutes, listening, and then recording the sounds around them by drawing them.

Young scholars observe and hear sound being created in two simple experiments. In this sound lesson, the students listen to the vibration of a swinging hanger and hit blocks together to create a percussion sound.

Students learn that vibration makes different types of sounds. In this sound lesson, students perform experiments to understand vibrations and high and low pitch sounds. Students learn that sound travels differently through different...

First graders construct a KWL chart on sound. In this physics instructional activity, 1st graders describe different ways to produce sound. They explain how sound waves propagate.

Students make predictions about how sound is formed. They view and discuss a video that explores sound formation and attempt to identify the origin of different sounds.

Students explore the world of sound by discovering inside and outside sounds, animal sounds, silent sounds, and more. In this sound lesson plan, students draw pictures, listen and write, and find their "mate" by using the sounds they hear.