In this activity, students work with partners to create four different instruments to investigate the frequency of the sounds they make. Students may chose to make a shoebox guitar, water glass xylophone, straw panpipe or a soda bottle organ.

Concepts

engineering, frequency, waves, stem, sound waves

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Additional Tags

musical instruments, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, music connections to science

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)