TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Energy of Music
Students are introduced to sound energy concepts and how engineers use sound energy. Through hands-on activities and demonstrations, students examine how we know sound exists by listening to and seeing sound waves. They learn to describe...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Audio Engineers: Sound Weavers
In this lesson plan, students are introduced to audio engineers. They discover in what type of an environment audio engineers work and exactly what they do on a day-to-day basis. Students come to realize that audio engineers help produce...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Sound Extenders
In this lesson, young scholars are introduced to communications engineers as people who enable long-range communication. In the lesson demonstration, students discuss the tendency of sound to diminish with distance and model this...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Sound Environment Shapers
In this lesson plan, students are introduced to the sound environment as an important aspect of a room or building. Several examples of acoustical engineering design for varied environments are presented to students. Students learn the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Plumbing the Deep: Using Sound Waves to See
In this instructional activity, students learn about echolocation: what it is and how engineers use it to "see" things in the dark, or deep underwater. Also, they learn how animals use echolocation to catch their dinner and travel the...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Sound and Music
Introduce some activities that introduce students to the physics of sound. They will also learn how various instruments produce sound. Included are downloadable pdf worksheets and answer sheets to use.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Wave and Music Table of Contents
Learners investigate the nature of a sound wave, sound properties, resonance, musical instruments, and standing waves. The tutorial consists of lessons and problems to check for understanding.
Read Works
Read Works: A Loud Concert
[Free Registration/Login Required] Sound waves are discussed in this realistic fiction article. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Frequency and Pitch of Sound
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores the pitch of sound, how it relates to the frequency of sound waves, and what infrasound and ultrasound are.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Doppler Effect
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses what the Doppler Effect is and how it occurs.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Ultrasound
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What ultrasound and echolocation are, and how sonar and ultrasonography are used.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Wavelength
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What wavelength is and how it relates to the energy of a wave.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Goals of Science
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduction to the goals of science.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Is a Mechanical Wave
This physics tutorial invites users to discover that sound is a mechanical wave. Be sure click on the animation for further study.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Sound Is a Pressure Wave
This physics tutorial invites users to discover how sound is a pressure wave. Be sure to view the animation.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Echolocation in Action!
In this activity, students will experience echolocation themselves. They actually try echolocation by wearing blindfolds while another student makes snapping noises in front of, behind, or to the side of them.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: The Phenomenon of Sound Waves
A lab activity on sound waves is presented on this website. Students will learn about sound waves produced by different objects in this activity. There are also a set of discussion questions and two other variations of the lab exercise.
Middle School Science
Middle School Science: Tuning Fork Lab
In this succinct lesson plan, students will compare the sounds produced by tuning forks and observe the behavior of sound waves in different media.
Teachers TryScience
Teachers Try Science: Catch the Wave!
A resource that explores sound waves and how they work. Offers activities online and offline. Requires Adobe Flash.
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Nasa Online: Sound: Wave Traits
An introduction to wave traits and how they affect sound.
Miss Bupp's Class
Miss Bupp's Class: Waves Science Unit
Enter Miss Bupp's class as she teaches a unit on waves. This extensive unit includes lesson plans, videos, assessments, and hands-on activities to make learning about waves and their characteristics fun and engaging.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Catch a Wave
This lesson encourages students to model a wave in a variety of ways using ropes and rubber bands. Resources included are videos of the lesson in action, a student worksheet, and examples of student work.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Waves Performance Assessment Part 1
Students will use a variety of objects to participate in a partner activity and communicate using light and sound waves. Resources include a video, pictures and videos of the lesson in action, and examples of student work.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Waves Performance Assessment Part 2
Learners will use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance. Resources included are videos of the lesson plan in action, a student worksheet, and an...