Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Sound and Vibration
Using some basic items, you can demonstrate the basic principles of sound, pitch, and vibration. This will allow the elementary student to discover some basic principles of sound and vibrations.
Michigan Reach Out
Michigan Reach Out!: Making a Shoe Box Guitar
This site provides an experiment where students create a guitar to discover what variables will change sound.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: The Ear Guitar
This simple activity helps students understand the role of vibration in producing sound.
Hunkins Experiments
Hunkin's Experiments: Sound Experiments
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This group of...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Make a Guitar, Vibration Experiment
Experience how vibrations make sound by constructing a guitar using rubber bands and a cereal box.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Science Projects and Experiments: Sound Vibrations
Kids learn by experimenting with science. Project showing how sound vibrations work by making a kazoo.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Spooky Sound Frizzle Style
This lesson plan is designed to teach young children about how sound is heard in a three-step process using the Magic School Bus materials.
Other
Mostly Music: Music Physics
A discussion of a variety of physics topics related to music and sound. Topics include vibrations, sound waves, frequency and pitch, resonance and overtones.