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  • Sounds Like Fun!

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    In this lesson, students explore the concept of sound through interactive read-alouds, videos, and inquiry activities. They create a simple communication device to investigate the role of sound in communicating over…

  • Characteristics of Sound Waves

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    The guiding question of this investigation is, How can we use the properties of waves to explain different sounds? Sound waves are created when a disturbance travels through a substance or material from one place to…

  • Sounds Are High, Sounds Are Low: I Wonder Why (Book Sample)

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    This sample from Sounds Are High, Sounds Are Low: I Wonder Why presents the nature of waves and sound with humorous proof in poetry of just how fun it is to observe with your ears. It’s ideal for beginning readers and…

  • Sound Activities and Investigations With Preschoolers

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  • Designing a Sound-Reducing Wall

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    In this chapter, students explore engineering with a fun challenge. To help students better understand sound in a fun and engaging way, an engineering design–based science learning activity was conducted that is…

  • Stop Children, What's That Sound?

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    Aging hippies might recognize the title of this chapter from an old Buffalo Springfield song. Others will just have to ignore it, and realize that this is the first chapter in a book on sound. As you go through this…

  • How Sound Gets Around

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    Sound travels in waves, but those waves aren't exactly like waves on a string. One nice things is that sound waves have all the same relationships between frequency, wavelength, and velocity that waves on a string have…

  • Sound: Shake, Rattle, and Roll

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    This activity focuses on exploring, comparing, and identifying sounds. Ask children to close their eyes and focus on their sense of hearing while making different sounds and letting them guess the sound. Then give a…

  • How Does Sound Travel in a String?

    Journal Article |

    In Chinese science curriculum, the sound unit generally starts with observing various sound making phenomena and finding out that they all involve vibration. (In China, the elementary science curriculum standards assign…

  • Utensil Music: Teaching Sound Science

    Book Chapter |

    “Sound science” is more than just a play on words—it is a powerful metaphor for the mind-opening and mind-expanding effect of integrated curriculum, instruction, and assessment. This simple, hands-on exploration…

  • Identification Detectives: Sounds and Smells of Science

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    This simple, hands-on exploration can be used to emphasize the role of sensory perception as a necessary antecedent to mental conception, the nature of science, and the pedagogical value of a “fun phenomena first.”…

  • What Science Should Look and Sound Like

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  • Sound: Stop Faking It! Finally Understanding Science So You Can Teach It

    NSTA Press Book |

    Muddled about what makes music? Stuck on the study of harmonics? Dumbfounded by how sound gets around? Now you no longer have to struggle to teach concepts you really don’t grasp yourself. Sound takes an…

  • Sound Tube Toys: The Importance of Varying Stimuli

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    Sound is a form of energy created and transmitted as a vibration or mechanical wave that can vary in pitch (frequency) and volume (amplitude). Simple toys can be used to engage interest and to develop and assess the…

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