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Sound and Noise

For Students 3rd - 8th
There are a variety of different activities provided by this resource. Directions for designing an experiment to see if your lab partner can detect objects in a closed container based on their sound along with an activity for making a...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Sound: A Lesson in Length and Pitch

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this classroom guided inquiry lesson, learners will rotate through five stations of various sound instruments to look at how length affects pitch. The five sound stations include: straw flutes, xylophone, water phone, palm pipes, and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Making Music

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this lesson, learners learn about sound. Girls and boys are introduced to the concept of frequency and how it applies to musical sounds.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Introduction to Sound

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson introduces fifth graders to the science of sound. Key concepts include sound waves, wavelength, amplitude, frequency, pitch, and intensity. There are many opportunities for student...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Wave Interference Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the key terms and skills related to wave interference, including how to predict wave interference patterns.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sound Extenders

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students are introduced to communications engineers as people who enable long-range communication. In the lesson demonstration, students discuss the tendency of sound to diminish with distance and model this phenomenon...
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Sound and Vibration

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Using some basic items, you can demonstrate the basic principles of sound, pitch, and vibration. This will allow the elementary student to discover some basic principles of sound and vibrations.
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Michigan Reach Out

Sounds Like Science: Guitars

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
At this site explore the relationship between audibility and frequency of sound, and the difference between frequency and volume.
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Michigan Reach Out

Sounds Like Science: Bottle Organ

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson plan students are able to manipulate sound to arrange a musical scale. Can be used by both science and music teachers.
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Other

Foss: Physics of Sound

For Teachers 6th - 8th
At Fossweb you can compare sound and distance by measuring the amount of time it takes for a sound to reach you. You can investigate sound in air and water! You can also look at pictures and video clips, or ask a question that a...
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HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Spooky Sound Frizzle Style

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson plan is designed to teach young children about how sound is heard in a three-step process using the Magic School Bus materials.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Boundary Behavior

For Students 9th - 10th
Educational tutorial features a physics tutorial on the behavior of sound waves specifically focusing upon boundary behavior. Be sure to view the attached animations for further understanding.
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: Lord Rayleigh Biographical

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the Nobel e-Museum, you can read about the scientific work of Lord Rayleigh (1842-1919 CE). This article includes information on his education and experiments with light and sound waves.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Audio Engineers: Sound Weavers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students are introduced to audio engineers. They discover in what type of an environment audio engineers work and exactly what they do on a day-to-day basis. Students come to realize that audio engineers help produce...
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Sound

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This site provides a lesson plan designed for primary learners over a three week period. Students learn concepts of vibration, communication,and pitch.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Sound, the Vibration of Materials

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Great activity for primary and intermediate students to learn why objects make noise. This can be organized in stations or in groups of students.
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Handout
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Water Tube Resonance Experiment

For Students 9th - 10th
Online physics lab experiment in which students use resonating waves inside of a closed-end air column to determine the speed of sound. The form allows students to check their answers and receive immediate feedback.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: The Doppler Effect and Shock Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
This high school physics lesson focuses on the application of the Doppler effect to sound. Discusses what the Doppler effect is, offers examples of its occurrence, and explains what shock waves and sonic boom are.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Waves: Behavior of Waves: Interference of Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
Students discover wave interference, the phenomenon that occurs when two waves meet while traveling along the same medium.
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: The Place Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
An indexing page for an elaborate and in-depth hyper-textbook on various physics topics. This page indexes several others which pertain to human ability to perceive sound and recognize pitch. Introduces and explains Place Theory.
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Other

Gcse: Sound Pitch

For Students 9th - 10th
Informational site on sound provides waveform illustrations of sound pitch. Provides additional information on ultrasounds, waves, reflection and much more.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Standing Waves Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Review key terms and skills related to standing waves including how to find standing wave harmonics.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Ears and Hearing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan investigates sound waves and how the ear hears. Students create a model of the ear using a cardboard tube, plastic wrap, and a sheet of paper.
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Energy4Me

Energy4me: Name That Tune

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students will learn that scientists use seismic technology (sound waves) to map patterns of rock formations below the surface of the earth and that different types of rocks affect sound waves.

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