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Curated OER

The Sound Monster - Words That Make Sounds

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars watch as the teacher makes sounds with her hands. They think of a word to describe the sound. Students discuss the way the word sounds like the sound. They complete the "The Sound Monster Activity." Young scholars are...
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Curated OER

Fun With Sound

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders make predictions. In this sound instructional activity, 2nd graders listen to various sounds, and write down and draw what they think that sound is. Students make a chart of their predictions.
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Curated OER

Sound

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine ways to produce sound. In this sound science lesson, students brainstorm ways to make sound and participate in several centers to demonstrate sound. An example of a center is using a clothes hanger and a thin rope to...
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Curated OER

The Sound of Music: Do-Re-Mi

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders create a simple melody using the Solfedge syllables. In this melody lesson, 7th graders watch the movie The Sound of Music and focus on the "Do Re Mi" clip. Students examine solfege syllables and create a melody using the...
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Curated OER

School-Home Links: Listen for Sounds in Short Words

For Students K - 1st
In this word sounds worksheet, students cut out the words in the boxes. Students then look at one word at a time and name the sounds they hear. Students say the word.
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Curated OER

Bats Do It-Why Can't I?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore echos and how they are utilised in navigation.  For this sound lesson students calculate the amount of time between a sound and its echo.
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Curated OER

The Rocket Sled

For Students 9th - 12th
For this secondary mathematics worksheet, students use the given information regarding a rocket’s distance and time to calculate the speed of sound.  The one page worksheet contains one problem with the solution. 
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Curated OER

Applied Science - Science and Math Lab

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students explore the senses. In this Applied Science lesson, students investigate the items in "feely" boxes with their hands, both touching the items and shaking the boxes to hear the sound the items make. Students also smell and taste...
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Curated OER

Scientific Methods in Biology

For Students 4th - 8th
In this scientific methods learning exercise, students will study a graph comparing the hearing range of humans to the range of sounds elephants make. Based on this graph, students will complete 3 short answer questions.
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Curated OER

Echolocation

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore echolocation. In this bats science lesson, students compare sunlight reflecting off a mirror to sound waves hitting a bat's ears. Students complete a worksheet about bats.
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Curated OER

Music Technology: Adding a Voice to a Cartoon

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars add their voice to a cartoon character and review sound waves using music technology software. They record specific information into the computer using a microphone and import their voice into the Flash program and apply...
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Curated OER

Design an Instrument

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students design an instrument. In this sound, vibration and pitch lesson plan, students learn about the characteristics of sound, vibration and pitch.  Students design a guitar using the assembled craft materials and demonstrate how they...
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Curated OER

Pigs Love Pink Pancakes

For Teachers K
Students explore the grapheme along with phoneme it represents. The teacher teaches letter reconginition by having the students write the letter and practice the sound. This helps studens investigate the letter faster (p). Students...
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Curated OER

Woodwind Instruments and Pitch

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore musical pitch. For this cross curriculum musical instruments and "sound" physics lesson, students identify and describe common traits of woodwind instruments. Young scholars research "pitch" and what causes pitch...
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Curated OER

Keep It Quiet!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders study about sound waves and how they behave in various media. They create a soundproofed container. They explain that velocity describes a change in distance over time.
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Curated OER

Name That Tune

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students complete a fingerprint oil lab in order to simulate how geologists use the oil and natural gas in rocks to hear sound waves that signify there are oil in those rocks. In this rocks lesson plan, students learn that the rock...
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Curated OER

High Frequency Words--Long "A"

For Students K - 1st
In this high frequency words worksheet, students read and write the eight given words and use the words in sentences. The words focus on the long "a" sound.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Spring Is Here: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 9)

For Teachers K Standards
Spring is the theme of this unit of extra support lessons. Your early readers enhance their skills using chants, practice worksheets, picture cards, and alphabet cards. Topics include identifying syllables, beginning sounds /w/, /g/,...
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Curated OER

Identify the Sound

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this science worksheet, students identify the sound that different animals and objects make. Students also identify the sounds they would hear at different locations.
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Curated OER

Rosie's Roses Lesson Idea: Practice Hearing the R

For Teachers K - 1st
Students focus on the sound of the letter /r/ after listening to Rosie's Roses by Pamela Duncan Edwards. In this letter /r/ lesson, students identify animals in the book that contain the /r/ sound. They sort /r/ words into groups by the...
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Curated OER

The Sound of Letter N-- Picture of Ship

For Students K - 1st
In this phonics worksheet, students identify where they hear the sound of the letter N in 6 words. Students examine the pictures of words containing letter N (at the beginning, middle or end) on a drawing of a ship. Beside each picture...
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Perkins School for the Blind

What Do I Hear?

For Teachers K - 6th
Being able to give positive reinforcers to a child starts with knowing what the child likes. Intended for children with blindness, this lesson gives you a way to determine the types of music your learners like best. You are given a set...
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American English

Welcome to the Color Vowel Chart

For Teachers 4th - 12th Standards
Focus English language learners' attention on word stress and phrase stress with a pronunciation chart that breaks the sounds into moving and non-moving vowel sounds. The chart tool uses colors and key words to indicate where to put the...
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Literacy Connects

Activities to Build Phonological Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Begin your reading program each day with a mini lesson on phonological awareness using these engaging activities listed in the resource. Young ones will enjoy word families, clapping and counting syllables, identifying single sounds and...

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