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Tips for
Teachers
A Unit on
Sound:
Ideas for
Interdisciplinary Lessons
For Science and
Music
- Students can do "hands on" experiments and activities
to understand how vibration creates sound. For example, use a plastic or
wooden ruler and a table. Place the ruler on the table and pluck
it to see and hear vibration.
- Students can learn about
the various ways that pitch can be created. For example,use the ruler again.
This time have a shorter portion of the ruler sticking out beyond
the table. Pluck it and notice the higher pitch.
- Students can learn about volume. Pluck the ruler harder and
softer to hear the change in volume.
- Students can study
classroom
musical instruments to determine how the sound is made for each one.
Small groups can rotate through stations and fill out forms to
report their findings. The stations could be: a guitar, an
autoharp, a recorder, a drum, a piano and an Orff xylophone.
- Students can learn about
sound
waves by doing various "hands on"
experiments. They can also use a computer program, such as
Sound
Effects
, a Shareware program,
Sound
View or
Sound
Vision ,
both freeware programs, to view the sound waves produced by
various sources.
As a final summation of
the unit, students
can design and make their own instruments. They should be encouraged to test
the sound of their instruments and make changes to improve the sound.
There are many sources of ideas on making instruments, for example,
books and internet sources. Students can use these to start with.
Encourage creativity!!