Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Sound: Using Pipe Music to Understand Pitch and Length.
In this investigation the student will learn about sound waves and vibration. Young scholars will use pipes to understand that the slower an object vibrates the lower the pitch and the faster an object vibrates the higher the pitch. Next...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Experimenting With Sound/compression Waves Through Vibration
Through inquiry, students will use various objects/materials attached to strings to investigate how vibration causes sounds waves.
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University of Cambridge: Ocean Odyssey
Deep beneath the ocean the underwater creatures need your help.Without you the future of the underwater kingdom will be bleak. Answer these questions about sound and sound waves to help Mel return to the ocean where she belongs.
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Easyphysics: Chapter 9 Sound
Learners investigate sound. Some topics examined are Doppler effect, interference of waves, and sound waves. The resource includes example problems with solutions and a chapter quiz.
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The University of Salford: Sounds Amazing
This site has several lessons all about sound. It introduces sound, then covers major principles of waves and the wave equation. Each lesson has interactive activities to keep you interested, and there are even some test questions.
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Open School Bc: Sound and Light
The Sound and Light interactive investigates these two forms of energy. Students will enjoy exploring how sound and light are created, travel, and can be controlled.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Mysteries of the Universe
Consider the issues surrounding the world of space exploration including the new fields of archaeoastronomy and astrobiology. Investigate zero gravity, the Big Bang theory, life in space and how sound travels in a vacuum.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute: The Science of Sound
This Franklin Institute webpage provides an introduction to understanding sound waves based on 5th grade science lessons.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Growing Up Different: In Tune
Explore the science of sound and the human ear, and explain how this applies to the operation of cochlear implants for the deaf. Observe how structures can be "tuned" to respond to different frequencies.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Calls of the Wild: Flies and Stereo
Explore the characteristics of binaural hearing and discover how two ears are utilized in determining the direction of a sound's origin. Produce auditory illusions by reversing and extending the detection site for each ear.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Energy, Light and Sound: Sound
A video and a short quiz on how sound travels in waves, its properties, and how to measure it.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Pipes of Pan
An experiment to create a device using cardboard tubes that will separate a mixture of sounds in a background into their different frequencies, from low to high depending on the tube length.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Secret Bells
An experiment demonstrating how sound vibrations transmit through metal.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Vocal Visualizer
Create a vocalizer device out of PVC piping and, with the help of a laser pointer, use it to project a visualization of the sound vibrations you make with it.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Seychelles: How Do We Hear?
This lesson teaches students about how sound vibrations are transmitted through solids, liquids, and gases, and about how materials may absorb sound.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Conversation Piece
Did you know a balloon filled with carbon dioxide can act as an amplifier? In this activity test how sound travels through carbon dioxide molecules.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Groovy Sounds
Using a paper, pencil, and pin students will build a phonograph in this activity. Students will be able to listen to their favorite record with this homemade record player.
NASA
Nasa: Probing Earth Through the Clouds
This site from the National Aeornautics and Space Administration provides a fun activity for the subject. "Clouds often hide large areas of the Earth's surface. We can use radar to make detailed maps of Earth right through clouds or...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Seeing and Feeling Sound Vibrations
Students examine the existence of sound by listening to and seeing sound waves while conducting a set of simple activities as a class or in pairs at stations. Students describe sound in terms of its pitch, volume and frequency. They use...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Traveling Sound
Students explore how sound waves move through liquids, solids and gases in a series of simple sound energy experiments. Understanding the properties of sound and how sound waves travel helps engineers determine the best room shape and...
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Teach Engineering: Pitch and Frequency
To further their understanding of sound energy, students identify the different pitches and frequencies created by a vibrating ruler and a straw kazoo. They create high- and low-pitch sound waves.
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Teach Engineering: Simple Instruments
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Controlling Sound
In this activity, students use a variety of materials to design and create headphones that absorb sound.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Wind Chimes
Using their knowledge of physics, students will build a wind chime. Mathematical computations will be done to determine the length of the pipes.