Curated OER
Echolocation and Communication
Students participate in a role-play activity to determine how whales use the properties of echolocation to communicate.
Curated OER
Creating a Character
In this creating a character learning exercise, students identify an interesting person from their written sources. Students will create details to describe their character's physical characteristics, clothing, speech, and personality...
Curated OER
Baseball Terms
In this interactive sports worksheet, students answer 14 multiple choice questions by selecting the answer from the drop down menu. This quiz is based on their knowledge of the sport of baseball.
Curated OER
Sounds Like Science - Guitars
Learners discover that all movement produces sound waves but not all sounds can be heard with the human ear. They experiment with a variety of substances to see which are audible and which are inaudible.
Curated OER
Science, Sounds And Hearing
Students examine various sounds that are played on musical instruments. They conduct an experiment to listening to different instruments. They define significant vocabulary like "vibration" and "oscillation". Students suggest ways that...
TeachEngineering
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.
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...
Arizona State University
Arizona State University: Natural Horn & Its Technique
Arizona State's descriptions of the horn are broken up by illustrations of the horn, players, and music. There is a big discussion of crooks (not the kind that go to jail), but the kind that are made when you bend metal! The author notes...