Starfall
Starfall: Digraph (Sh) Activity
Come and learn more about the consonant digraph "sh" when you visit this interactive activity. This site features an audio component.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Do You Hear What I Hear?
Students will perform an investigative activity in which they will identify sounds. The teacher will play several different sounds through the computer and sound system. Students will listen and act as "detectives" to relate sounds to...
PBS
Classics for Kids: Match the Rhythm
Match the rhythm you hear by hitting a section of the drum set.
PBS
Peep and the Big Wide World: Sound
In this interactive, children learn about sounds and practice putting sounds together to make music.
University of Maryland
University of Maryland: Thinking Problems With Sound
A series of thought-provoking multiple-choice questions from the University of Maryland on the topic of sound and acoustics. One question pertains to the acoustics of a furnished room with two speakers; demands a basic understanding of...
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Literary Term: Onomatopoeia
For a clear explanation of onomoatopoeia and several examples from well-known poets, use this page.
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Reutilizar Y Tocar
Like conventional musical instruments, objects such as brushes can produce unique sounds. Behind each one is the imagination and creativity. In this site you will be able to build musical instruments by using your imagination.
Other
Mc Squared: Church Acoustics and Sound Systems
A series of pages written by a sound system design group; the pages provide excellent background information about acoustical topics related to the design and analysis of both sound systems and rooms. Contains a lot of good physics in an...
Other
Physics of Sound/image Analysis of Sound Pressure
A discussion on how to locate the sound image based upon the incident and reflected pulse of sound heard at a given location. For those looking for a challenge, follow the links to view derivations of wave equations for sound (uses...
Other
Arab Physics
While some of the pages on this site have yet to be filled, the pages that are complete are comprehensive. For example, pages on friction, heat, and the Doppler effect are illustrated and explain relevant formulas. A biography page...
Fundación Cientec
Cientec: Modelo
This page includes suggestions for experiments that allow you to explore the transmission of waves, the stability of structures, the resistance of materials and more.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Alphabet Chart
Use this graphic organizer to help students review and better understand letters, sounds, phonemes, and word formations.
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Canada Science and Technology Museum: Materials
Test your skill and find out which materials absorb sound well.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Onset Rhyme
[Free Registration/Login Required] A one page flipchart that has an activity for students to create words. Have students move initial letters to appropriate endings to create words.
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Class Flow: Rosie's Walk
[Free Registration/Login Required] A rewritten version of Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins. In this flipchart many of the animals have sounds attached to them. The bird in the top right hand corner of each page will read the text for that...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sounds
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps students identify /ou/ and /ow/ sounds in words.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sounds in Sequence
[Free Registration/Login Required] Have students close their eyes and identify the sound that you make. -When the sound has been identified, repeat it and add a second sound. Have students tell you in complete sentences using first and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sounds of C
[Free Registration/Login Required] Discuss the sounds that the letter C makes at the beginning and in words. Hard C versus Soft C.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Captivating Cc
[Free Registration/Login Required] This kindergarten flipchart focuses on the letter Cc. Each page allows the students to interact using the reveal tool, highlighter, and pen tool to write words, create sentences, and draw pictures.
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Class Flow: Abc Test
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will practice beginning sounds.
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Class Flow: Beginning Letters
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is good to use toward the beginning of first grade or the end of kindergarten. It has children look at pictures and match the beginning letter with the pictures. A pretest and posttest is...