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Physics: Light and Sound
Students explore the concepts of light waves and sound waves. In this physics lesson, students complete activities that require them to investigate how light and sound waves travel.
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Hear the Wave!
Learners study sound and ear function. In this sound functions lesson, students investigate soundwaves by completing various experiments. Learners participate in a number of sound stations and complete the comparison chart with their...
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Sounds Like Science: Drums
Learners explore the science of sound. In this sound lesson, students craft drums from various materials and respond to questions regarding pitch, force, and volume.
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Sounds Like Science-Guitars
Students demonstrate the relationship between a sound and its frequency. In this sound and frequency lesson, students use an old tennis racket and nylon fishing line to create a guitar. Students observe the pitch and frequency.
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Pitch
Students experience sounds with different pitches. In this pitch lesson, students use open pipes as they are introduced to pitch, then make Straw Pan Pipes.
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Wave Motion
Students observe and identify various waves. In this wave motion lesson, student use a Slinky, noise, people, and musical instruments to create waves and observe how each type of wave moves.
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From Vibration to Sound
Young scholars observe a series of demonstrations to illustrate wave movement. In this sound wave lesson, students witness how objects create waves when dropped in a dish of water, use a rope and slinky to produce transverse and...
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Sound Environment Shapes
Students learn about a "sound environment" and how it is important when building a structure. In this sound environment lesson plan, students learn how acoustical engineering is important to building a structure and how sound waves...
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The Vibrational Nature of Sound
Young scholars explore the vibrational nature of sound. In this science lesson plan, students gain an understanding of sound frequency, pitch, and conduction using the string telephone, tuning fork and musical glasses experiments.
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What's Inside the Earth?
In this earth's composition worksheet, students read about the layers within the earth and they answer 3 multiple choice questions. They color a diagram of the earth's core using different colors to represent the solid metal, the liquid...
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Wave Action
In this waves instructional activity, students compare the characteristics of sound and light waves and determine the wavelength, amplitude, and speed of a wave. This instructional activity has 9 problems to solve.
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Wave Speed
For this waves worksheet, students use the equation for wave speed to calculate frequency or wavelength. This worksheet has 5 problems to solve.
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Radio Waves
In this radio waves worksheet, students read about how broadcasting uses radio waves to deliver sound and how radio signals are received. Then students complete 3 short answer questions.
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The Doppler Effect Lab
In this Doppler effect worksheet, students read information about the Doppler effect. Students answer questions as it relates to the pitch and wavelengths of a demonstration simulates what happens with the Doppler Effect.
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Physics 210: 24
In this physics 210 activity, students answer the question of the predicted modes of oscillations heard based on the information provided in the word problems. Students apply their understanding of sound waves to answer the questions given.
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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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Waves
For this wave worksheet, students will review the characteristics of waves which includes the parts of a wave, how waves are measured, and how waves are created. This worksheet has 8 vocabulary used in a word puzzle, 5 true or false, and...
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Radiation From Space
For this space worksheet, students will review different aspects of light, sound, and radio waves in space and the use of different types of telescopes. This worksheet has 17 fill in the blank statements.
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Wave Behavior
In this wave behavior worksheet, learners will read about how sound waves are formed and how air and water temperature affects sound waves travel. Then students will complete 2 short answer questions based on the information they read.
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The Senses
In this senses learning exercise, students describe the difference in sounds heard with a spoon. Then they describe how each object creates a sound and why. Students also explain the process of sound moving through the outer and inner ear.
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Initial Consonant Cluster
In this grammar worksheet, students read and identify squ- words and then, recognize that sq (and q) are always followed by u. They also read a story and highlight all the words that begin with squ. Finally, students complete a crossword...
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Waves And Sound Word Search Puzzle
In this language arts worksheet, students study 6 words which pertain to sound waves. Students locate the words in a word search puzzle.
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Importance of the Ear
In this biology worksheet, students identify six important reasons of the ears in humans. They complete a graphic organizer filling in each of 6 circles with one reason of importance.
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How the Ear Receives Sound
In this biology worksheet, students identify how the ear receives sound by using the information given to cut and paste each section to complete a flow chart that illustrates this. They lightly color each section of the flow chart to...