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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Abe Lincoln's Log Cabin

For Teachers K
Students study Abe Lincoln and make a log cabin out of pretzel sticks and chocolate frosting.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Oceans: A Sensory Haiku

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create an ocean haiku. In this haiku lesson, students use their five senses to write a haiku. Students watch videos about the ocean, make a sensory portrait, and create a class haiku.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Little Alliteration

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders study rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration in poetry by completing various activities. In this language arts lesson, 2nd graders practice recognizing alliteration and then create their own poem using alliteration.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Homonyms Worksheet 3

For Students 7th - 9th
In this grammar learning exercise, students choose the appropriate homonym to complete twelve sentences grammatically correct. Students check their answers when done.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lightning and Thunder

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars conduct an experiment. In this lightning and thunder instructional activity, students learn how to figure out how far away a thunderstorm is.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Little Alliteration

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
In this poetry lesson plan, students listen to stories that contain alliteration. While listening to stories, student pairs make a list of words that they then use to construct "silly sentences" that contain alliteration. Each student...
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Antarctica: How Can We Hear Sounds?

For Students K - 1st
James lives on Antarctica and loves the unique sounds he hears there. He is curious to know how it is possible that we hear sounds. Join him to help figure this out.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Hearing Loss

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores what deafness is, how loud sounds cause hearing loss, and how to prevent hearing loss using hearing protectors.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Measuring Your Threshold of Hearing

For Students 9th - 10th
How your ears and your brain turn the sound waves out there in the world into the experience of music in your head, remains a mystery to many, but yet we all experience and even enjoy sounds and music. If you're interested in doing a...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Extreme Sounds: Lessons in a Noisy World

For Students 9th - 10th
Just how loud does a sound have to be for us to hear it? And how loud is too loud for our ears? Learn to measure levels of sound in this project, and discover the amazing auditory range your ears can detect in the noisy world around you.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Measuring Vibrational Frequency With Light

For Students 9th - 10th
Strike a key on the piano, and you hear the string vibrating. Just about any object vibrates when it's knocked, but how much and how fast? This project helps you find out. You'll build a simple light-sensing circuit for measuring the...
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Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Radiohead

For Students 9th - 10th
Try this experiment to see how sound transmits as vibrations through solid matter. You will use a toothbrush to listen to the radio.
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Handout
Curated OER

Kids Health: Let's Hear It for the Ear!

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to learn about the body part that is responsible for collecting sounds, processing them and sending them to your brain. See all the inner workings of the ear through great diagrams. Available in Spanish.
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Science of Sound

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource is for teachers who are looking for information, activities, experiments, and more pertaining to the science of sound.
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Project Britain

Primary Homework Help: Sound Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th
Read some fast facts about sound energy first, then try a fourteen question review quiz. Check your answer after each question.
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Article
Creative Science Centre

Creative Science Centre: A Voice on a Sunbeam

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is described a simple process to 'put a voice on a sunbeam' and transmit it over a distance. It is a fascinating example of amplitude modulation of light using sound vibrations. It then describes how the modulated light is detected...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Sound Bites: Tasting the Texture of Classical Music

For Students 9th - 10th
Did you know that your sense of hearing can determine texture? This Science Buddies science fair project has you experiment with four major eras in western music to determine the texture of the music. The Science Buddies project ideas...
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Seychelles: How Do We Hear?

For Students 3rd - 5th
This lesson teaches students about how sound vibrations are transmitted through solids, liquids, and gases, and about how materials may absorb sound.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Science of Hearing

For Students 9th - 10th
To understand how hearing works, Douglas L. Oliver follows a sound on its journey into the ear. [5:17]
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Lesson Plan
Other

Siemens Science Day: Life Science: Hear Ye! Hear Ye! [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Through this hands-on science activity, learners make a model of the human ear as well as explore the parts of the ear and their roles in transferring sound.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Hearing and the Ear

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains how we hear sound, how the ear works, and the different structures of the ear.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Sounds of Baseball

For Teachers 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An descriptive text about the sounds a person would hear at a baseball game. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Effects of Ear Canal Acoustics on Hearing Ability

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a five-question quiz related to the passage "The Effects of Ear Canal Acoustics on Hearing Ability."
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Antarctica: How Are Sounds Useful to Us?

For Students K - 1st
Paul is a researcher on Antarctica. The topic of his research is sounds. Identify which objects make sounds, and learn to recognize different sounds.