LESSON PLANS
Students will conduct an experiment that will allow them to see sound waves in action.
Through simple experimentation, students will learn how sound waves function and travel.
WORKSHEETS
Try a printable science activity that focuses on loud and soft sounds.
This printable challenges students to identify transfers of energy by transverse and longitudinal waves.
Try a printable science activity that focuses on sounds -- pleasant and unpleasant.
Review the Doppler effect with this printable. Students will use the graph in this worksheet to answer questions about…
Try a printable science activity that focuses on comparing sounds.
Try a printable science activity that focuses on high and low sounds.
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Introduce your students to a KWL chart that is a graphic organizer for recording what students Know, Want to know, and…
Try a printable science activity that focuses on classifying pleasant and unpleasant sounds.
VIDEOS
Introduce young kids to the physics of sound. Watch this video to learn how objects and animals make sounds with…
Children draw pictures of sounds heard in and out of the classroom.
CLASSROOM TOOLS
In this printable, students will use the data provided in a table to graph the speed of sound in air at various…
This printable connects math and science with word problems about the speed of sound in various materials.
Connect music and physical science with this identification and classification activity. Students will use their…
Try a printable science activity that focuses on high and low pitches.
Try a printable science activity that focuses on experimenting with sounds.
Students cut out action pictures and use the graphic organizer to classify the action as loud or soft. This printable is…
ACTIVITIES
Students determine which types of mediums make the most effective ear protectors. Tests students' understanding of sound…
Distribute a printable set of vocabulary words related to light and sound.
Distribute a printable set of vocabulary words related to sound, heat, and light.
Students build a rubber-band box in order to make music.
Suggest a family activity to parents that provides a series of take-home activities and vocabulary words on the topics…
Students will use the diagrams of different sound waves in this printable to answer questions about frequency and pitch.…
