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.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: How Loud, How High?
What are ways to describe sound? Using the program downloaded called Sound Grapher and the microphone on the computer, students can investigate the frequency, wavelength, amplitude, and velocity of sound waves. Activity includes detailed...
Other
University of Cambridge: Ocean Odyssey
Deep beneath the ocean the underwater creatures need your help.Without you the future of the underwater kingdom will be bleak. Answer these questions about sound and sound waves to help Mel return to the ocean where she belongs.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Echo vs. Reverberation
Learn the difference between an echo and a reverberation on this reference page. Page includes an animation to show the difference.
Read Works
Read Works: A Loud Concert
[Free Registration/Login Required] Sound waves are discussed in this realistic fiction article. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for...
University of Texas at Austin
Mathematics Teks Toolkit: The Sounds of Music
In this lesson plan, students collect data, graph it, then determine the period and frequency of the sound waves made by a guitar.
Other
Silcom: Room Acoustics
A detailed discussion on the effect of reflection and absorption of sound waves by walls upon the audio quality of a room. Methods for inspecting the quality of a room are given and discussed.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Calls of the Wild: Bats and Echolocation
Explore bats' navigation systems by experimenting with echolocation. Approximate an object's distance by analyzing reflected sound waves, measuring the delay in sound and calculating the ratio to the speed of sound.
Curated OER
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Here are instructions for a simple demonstration showing how sound waves are passed from one molecule to another. Using only marbles, this experiment "mimics the way a sounds wave is produced."
Physics Central
Physics Central: Physics in the Tool Shed: Toolaballoonaphone
Learn about compression waves and amplification through constructing a toolaballoonaphone! The toolaballoonaphone is made out an exercise ball, fish nets, wrenches, strings, scissors, and a clean waste basket that allows students to...
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute: Sound Lessons by Fifth Graders
Resource provides five easy-to-follow lessons that you can do with your class to teach the science of sound.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Wave on String Lab
This lab is designed to help students discover the connections between the linear density of a string and the tension in the string with the speed of the wave along the string. The program can be set with six identical strings or six...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Wavelength
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What wavelength is and how it relates to the energy of a wave.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Seychelles: How Do We Hear?
This lesson teaches students about how sound vibrations are transmitted through solids, liquids, and gases, and about how materials may absorb sound.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra: Live Exploration
Take a special trip to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra with GPB Education! This interactive virtual exploration offers students a behind-the-scenes experience as they learn about the science of sound and the preparation it takes to put on...
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Brass Instruments
Understand the science of sound when performing with a brass instrument such as a trumpet or a trombone.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Pipes of Pan
An experiment to create a device using cardboard tubes that will separate a mixture of sounds in a background into their different frequencies, from low to high depending on the tube length.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Energy, Light and Sound: Light
A video and a short quiz on the basic concepts and vocabulary for understanding light energy.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: How Does Color Affect Heating by Absorption of Light?
Light is an example of an electromagnetic wave. Electromagnetic waves can travel through the vacuum of interstellar space. They do not depend on an external medium-unlike a mechanical wave such as a sound wave which must travel through...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Doppler Effect
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students investigate behaviors of waves, and explore the Doppler effect phenomenon.
NASA
Nasa: The Space Place: Have Super Hearing With a Super Sound Cone
This site from NASA provides an interesting approach to the subject. How do messages travel in space and how do we intercept those messages on Earth? Find out the answers as well as find out how NASA's giant dish antennas work.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Physics for Kids: Basics of Sound
Kids learn the basics of the science of sound, the speed of sound, and volume. What is sound and how does it move? It is a wave made from the vibration of molecules.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Practice Science Answers: Easy Light, Sound, Color
Take this quiz that contains basics questions on light, sound, and color.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Musical Instruments
Homepage for a hypertext about the different families of musical instruments. From this page, users can retrieve information on a the acoustics of a variety of specific instruments: stringed instruments, woodwind instruments, brass...
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