Curated OER
Sounds Like Science-Kazoo
Students demonstrate how energy is used to make a sound. For this sound lesson, students construct a kazoo from a comb and identify how a sound is made by using force.
Curated OER
SOUND VIBRATIONS
Student designs a test that uses their sense of hearing to judge the effectiveness of different solids to transmit sound vibrations. Students experience vibrations using several of their senses.
Curated OER
Sounds Like Science - Kazoo
Young scholars discover that energy is needed to produce sound. They see that identifying where the energy comes from enables us to control the type of sound produced. They play the kazoo and manipulate the sound in a variety of ways.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pitch: Straw Kazoo
This video segment, adapted from ZOOM, explores the different sounds that a simple drinking straw can produce when you cut the straw and blow into it. [1:56]
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.
Staten Island Children's Museum
Staten Island Children's Museum: Music Camp at Home
Enjoy doing these outdoor activities with your family such as making a Guiro or kazoo, or learning how to play the flute.