ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Moving Sound [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, 4th graders will use movement and dance composition to aid their comprehension of sound and sound waves.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Intensity and Loudness of Sound
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the intensity of sound and how it relates to loudness, the decibel levels of different sounds, and factors that affect sound intensity.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Sound Waves
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of sound, what sound waves are, how they are generated and what media they can travel through.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Energy and Its Forms
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students explore the different forms of energy and investigate how the law of conservation of energy plays an important part of those forms.
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: Turn It Up!: Loudness
A simulation that shows what happens to a sound wave when the pitch is changed.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: First Grade Science: How Do I Make Sounds?
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses how sounds are created through vibrations.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Physical Science: Characteristics of Sound
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses sound waves and properties of sound.
PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Estuaries
Learn more about estuaries when you visit this informative site. This resource provides locations of and weblinks to estuaries in the United States.
Teachers TryScience
Teachers Try Science: Musical Coat Hangers
From the National Science and Technology Centre in Australia comes this easy experiment that shows how sound waves travel and what materials are good conductors of sound.
Other
Noise Pollution Clearinghouse: Aviation Noise Effects
Very comprehensive, easily indexed site on the technical, ecological, and physiological effects of aviation noise.
Other
Noise Pollution Clearinghouse: Protective Noise Levels
Condensed and less technical document by the Environmental Protection Agency covering noise pollution in the United States.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Vibrations We Can See, Feel and Hear
This four-part lesson allows students to explore the question of how sounds are made. Using wooden rulers, tongue depressors and tuning forks, students will explore and experience sound. Students will use what they have learned to create...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Sounds: What We Hear!
Students will create a descriptive writing about the sounds they hear in a favorite place. This is a good follow-up to a science unit on sound.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Do You Hear What I Hear?
Students will perform an investigative activity in which they will identify sounds. The teacher will play several different sounds through the computer and sound system. Students will listen and act as "detectives" to relate sounds to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Echolocation Stations: Exploring Sound
During this lesson students will have the opportunity to explore sound. This lesson should be taught during an ongoing unit about whales. Students will navigate different websites to learn more about whales and sound. This lesson is...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Animal Communication
Learn how animals communicate with visual, sound, touch, and chemical signals.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science for Middle School
This digital textbook covers core physical science concepts and includes interactive features, real world examples, and videos.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Interactive Physics for High School
This digital textbook covers core physics concepts and includes interactive features, real world examples, videos, and study guides.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: First Grade Science
This customizable digital textbook covers topics related to first-grade science. It is Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) aligned.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science
This customizable digital textbook covers topics related to fourth-grade science. It is Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) aligned.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Transverse and Longitudinal Waves Review
Overview of key terms and skills for waves, including how to identify longitudinal and transverse waves.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Sound Questions
Test your knowledge of sound with this ten-question quiz.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Sound Questions
Test your knowledge of sound with this ten-question quiz.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Resonance in a Tube
Read the passage "Resonance in a Tube" and complete the five-question quiz to test your knowledge of sound.