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Sound Bite

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners use their teeth for more than just eating. The activity shows class members how to send sound through their teeth by using an electric motor connected to a radio to generate vibrations. Biting on the motor transfers the...
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Sound Waves

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Using a karaoke machine, a guitar, and other devices, learners explore the way sound waves travel. Using this hands on approach, learners can get a better understanding of wavelength, frequency, and more.
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Beginning and Ending Sounds - Lesson 1 of 2

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Stamp, slap, and clap! Emergent readers demonstrate their awareness of the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds in spoken, short vowel, single-syllable words with a stamp/slap/clap activity. After identifying the letters and sounds of...
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Sound

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore sound. They describe sounds in terms of their properties and explain how sounds are made. Students discuss how various sounds sound to their ears and how sound travels in waves.
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Final Consonant Sounds: Review - ft, ld, lt, mp, nd

For Students K - 3rd
These are challenging phonics review sheets. On the first page, learners match the end sounds to the pictures and write a rhyming word for each word. For the second page, pupils choose an end sound to complete a series of incomplete...
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What is Sound?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss sound and describe them.  For this investigative lesson students observe sound through their eyes, bodies and ears.
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Phonics: Segmenting Sounds in Short Words

For Teachers K
F-u-n spells fun. It is a simple word that little learners can sound out as they build phonemic awareness and those early reading skills. This short scripted lesson provides teachers with the basics for teaching how to sound out words. 
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Introduce Last Sound Segmenting (Mico Version)

For Teachers K - 1st
What is Mico trying to say? Use a puppet to make this final-phoneme activity more engaging for kindergartners. Using three picture cards at a time (included), they listen to him say a final sound. To which of the three images is he...
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Audio Engineers: Sound Weavers

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners explore audio engineering. In this career education and "sound" science lesson, students define related vocabulary and make connections between the music they listen to and the job an audio engineer does after listening to...
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Last Sound Segmenting (Mico Version)

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Get your scholars excited about phonemes using Mico the puppet; they use the picture cards to examine three words at a time. Mico says the ending sound of one of the words, and learners determine which of them is a match. You'll want to...
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First Sound Segmenting Accuracy

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
What's the sound, Mico? Use your class' favorite puppet (in this example, Mico) to teach them about initial sounds in single-syllable words. Using the picture cards provided, choose three and lay them out in front of learners. When Mico...
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Introduce Middle Sounds Segmenting (Mico Version)

For Teachers K - 1st
Mico the puppet offers a phoneme challenge for emerging readers: can they find the object with the middle sound they hear? Use the fantastic set of full-color picture cards to play this game with small groups or even the whole class....
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Animal Sounds Cut and Paste

For Students K - 1st
Grrr! Practice animal sounds with this engaging cut and paste instructional activity. Young readers can color six black line picture of animals including a cow, a cat, a duck, a bird, a dog and a bear, before cutting them out and glueing...
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Music: Sounds on the Farm

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Singing is a great way to build memory, music, and verbal communication skills. Little ones sing the song, "Old Mac Donald had a Farm." They make the sounds of each animal on the farm paying attention to signaling cues, singing high, and...
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Identifying Matter by Sound and Feel

For Students 4th - 6th
In this identifying matter by sound and feel activity, students participate in an experiment to identify a wide variety of different types of matter in film containers supplied by each student.
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Long e Sound

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Use this presentation for a quick review of the long e sound. While just a quick review of this topic, learners identify the different spellings for this sound and read a list of words. This resource could be used before a lesson on the...
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Letter Sound Fluency

For Teachers Pre-K - K
How fast can you go? Test scholars' letter sound recognition with a timed game. Using letter cards of all the letters you've learned so far, learners take turns flipping cards and correctly saying the letter sound. Model this first,...
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Sound of the Runners, H = /h/

For Teachers K - 1st
A variety of activities related to the /h/ phoneme are included here. Recite an H tongue twister then trace and write the letter H. The group listens to pairs of words and identifies which word contains the /h/ sound.
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Letter Pronunciation - /f/ Sound

For Students 2nd - 4th
Are you working on the /f/ sound in your class? Develop phonemic awareness with this worksheet. This graphic organizer has students circle the word that best describes the picture in the right-hand column. Then, in the middle column,...
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Short Vowel Sounds

For Students K - 1st
Use this resource to provide a quick review of words with short vowel sounds. Learners view pictures, and read and write words with the short vowel sound o. Afterwards, they write a sentence using some of the short o words. Students...
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Plumbing the Deep-Using Sound Waves to See

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore and learn about the concept of echolocation. In this echolocation lesson, students explore how animals and engineers use echolocation (seeing under water) and sound waves to look and hear things under the deep water.
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Sound poems

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write a class poem based on the use of sound to create effects. They investigate use of onomatopoeia and how to write in a tight structure.
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Telecommunication: Sound Waves

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Some interesting diagrams here will pique your students' interest as they discover what is actually inside the telephone that they use every day! The frequency and amplitude labels then lead to further details about sound and waves of...
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Count the Sounds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Sing along with this phonics song. Your early readers will count the sounds using their fingers as they sing or say the sounds of four simple words. Tip: Use this song with other words, make connections by using words from the class word...

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