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OpenSciEd

Open Sci Ed: Turn It Up!: Loudness

For Students 9th - 10th
A simulation that shows what happens to a sound wave when the pitch is changed.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Controlling Sound

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, students use a variety of materials to design and create headphones that absorb sound.
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Other

Fear of Physics: Sound

For Students 9th - 10th
Great animations showing how sound is produced.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sound and Light

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The Sound and Light unit provides students with an understanding of sound and light waves through the theme of the "Sunken Treasure," a continuous story line throughout the lessons. In Lessons 1-5, students learn about sound, and in...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sounds Like Music

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Music can loosely be defined as organized sound. The lesson objectives, understanding sound is a form of energy, understanding pitch, understanding sound traveling through a medium, and being able to separate music from sound, can...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Wave Characteristics Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the characteristics of periodic transverse and longitudinal waves such as wavelength, crest, trough, amplitude, expansion, and compression.
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Other

Confederation of Oregon School Administrators: Waves and Their Applications

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Every second billions of waves-sound waves, radio waves, light waves-pass through or bounce off our bodies. Over time people have developed technologies that make use of these natural phenomena to accomplish their goals such as creating...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Sound Makers

For Teachers K - 1st
For this activity, students make a sound cylinder using a cardboard tube, and investigate the sound wave vibrations they can feel at its end when they speak into it.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Physics for Kids: Sound Pitch and Acoustics

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn more about the science and physics of sound. Pitch, acoustics, and the doppler effect. How the frequency of the sound wave affects the pitch we hear.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Science Projects and Experiments: Sound Pitch

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn by experimenting with science. Project showing how sound waves effect pitch.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Sound (Primary)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This site provides two activities that can be used in the primary elementary classroom. The purpose is to "demonstrate different ways to produce sound."
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Activity
Hunkins Experiments

Hunkin's Experiments: Sound Experiments

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This group of...
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Other

Physics of Sound/image Analysis of Sound Pressure

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Sound, Pitch, and Conduction

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Lesson for primary elementary about sound. Students learn about pitch, air conduction, and bone conduction.
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Website
The Franklin Institute

Franklin Institute: Music to Our Ears

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover the connection between sound waves and hearing with this webpage tutorial. Be sure to click on the picture for detailed information.
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Lesson Plan
Intel Corporation

Intel Engage: Designing Effective Projects: Dangerous Decibels

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate sound in their environment, particularly how sounds impact their lives. At the beginning of the unit, students use online simulations to investigate the properties of sound and learn about the components of a...
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Activity
Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: Sound Like a Turkey

For Students 2nd - 5th
An activity where students investigate the sounds created by the friction of fingers moving along a wet string.
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Unit Plan
University of New South Wales (Australia)

University of New South Wales: School of Physics: Physiclips

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Concepts of waves and sound are thoroughly presented in animation and film clips.
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Unit Plan
University of New South Wales (Australia)

University of New South Wales: School of Physics: Physclips: Standing Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand how standing waves occur in this learning module that includes animations and videos.
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Unit Plan
University of New South Wales (Australia)

University of New South Wales: School of Physics: Physclips: Human Sound

For Students 9th - 10th
Get all the information you need to know about human sound in this learning module. Module covers voice production, ear's part in hearing, resonances, and pitch.
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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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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Energy of Music

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars 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...
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Waves, Sound and Light: Longitudinal Pulse

For Students 9th - 10th
The animation portrays a medium as a series of particles connected by springs. In this type of longitudinal wave the particles of the medium vibrate in a direction parallel to the direction of energy transport.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: "The Sound of Music"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will use tuning forks and the CBR to gather sound wave data for students to use to write Sine (or Cosine) functions. In this activity we study waves of known musical notes before studying waves of unknown musical notes. I...

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