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Subtopic: Sound Waves

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Resource	Grade Level	Media Type
Amplitude This interactive activity adapted from the University of Utah's ASPIRE Lab shows how a pendulum's amplitude changes as you set it swinging from different distances from its axis, and how the amplitude of a sound wave changes as you adjust the volume.	6-12	Flash Interactive
Booming Sands This video segment, adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, presents basic concepts of physics behind "booming" sand dunes. See how surface tension affects potential and kinetic energy and how it all works together to create sound.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Design Squad: Sound In this video segment adapted from Design Squad—a PBS TV series featuring high school contestants tackling engineering challenges—learn about the fundamentals of sound as student teams create percussive and stringed instruments for a local band.	3-12	QuickTime Video
Experimenting with a Glass Xylophone In this video segment adapted from ZOOM, the cast investigates how the pitch of sound changes when they strike a variety of glasses filled with different amounts and types of liquids.	3-8	QuickTime Video
Extreme Sounds Join Tarissa and Sabrina as they measure and compare the volume of different sounds across New York City in this video from DragonflyTV.	3-8	QuickTime Video
Feel the Beat In this video from Curious George, young children learn about pitch by playing a variety of drums. One hearing-impaired child experiences the different sounds through her hands instead of her ears.	K-2	QuickTime Video
Frequency In this interactive activity adapted from the University of Utah's ASPIRE Lab, investigate frequency in terms of trampoline jumps, pendulum swings, and electromagnetic waves.	6-12	Flash Interactive
Glass Breaking with Sound In this video adapted from the Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations, learn how a glass beaker vibrates at a specific frequency and how resonance can force it to shatter.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Hana's Japanese Drums In this ZOOM video segment, join Hana as she learns traditional Japanese drumming with her Taiko group.	K-8	QuickTime Video
Inverse Square Law This animation from KET's distance learning physics course demonstrates the mathematical formula for a scientific law as it applies to light.	6-12	HTML Interactive
Kid Musician: Mexico's Guitar Town Visit with Andres during fiesta time at Paracho Michoacan, Mexico's "guitar town". As Andres shows in this video segment from ZOOM, guitar music goes beyond simple sound vibrations.	K-5	QuickTime Video
Pitch: Making Guitars Watch the rubber bands vibrate on homemade guitars in this video segment adapted from ZOOM as cast members talk about pitch and demonstrate how to make a cereal box instrument.	K-5	QuickTime Video
Pitch: Straw Kazoo This video segment, adapted from ZOOM, explores the different sounds that a simple drinking straw can produce when you cut the straw and blow into it.	K-5	QuickTime Video
Pitch: Super Sounding Drums This video segment, adapted from ZOOM, explores sounds made by homemade drums of different sizes, shapes, and materials.	3-8	QuickTime Video
Pitch: Water Trombone This video segment, adapted from ZOOM, demonstrates how to use a drinking straw and a bottle full of water to make low- and high-pitched sounds.	K-5	QuickTime Video
Radio Transmission This interactive activity from A Science Odyssey tracks the journey of a sound wave from the moment a musician sings into a microphone until his voice reaches the vibrating speakers of an AM Radio.	6-12	Shockwave Interactive
Smart Bridges In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, learn about engineering innovations that could help detect a bridge's structural weaknesses before they become dangerous.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Sound This interactive simulation, adapted from the University of Colorado's Physics Education Technology project, illustrates sound waves. Adjust the frequency and amplitude to see and hear how the waves change.	6-12	Java Web Start Interactive
Sound and Solids: Listening Stick This video segment, adapted from ZOOM, explores how sound waves travel differently through air than through solids like a yardstick, a baseball bat, and a golf club.	K-8	QuickTime Video
Sound and Solids: Stereo Hangers This video segment, adapted from ZOOM, explores how sound waves travel differently through solids than through air, in this case, a metal clothes hanger.	K-8	QuickTime Video
Sound and Solids: Visualizing Vibrations In this video segment, adapted from ZOOM, a tuning fork's vibrations are made visible as ripples in a bowl of water.	K-8	QuickTime Video
Sound Vibrations Students learn that vibrations are responsible for the sounds we hear and that sound vibrations can travel through different mediums.	K-5	Lesson Plan
Sound Waves Underwater: Experiment with Sonar This animation from the NOVA Web site describes how sonar uses sound waves to "see" underwater.	6-12	HTML Document
Sound Waves Underwater: The Loch Ness Monster This video segment, adapted from NOVA follows a team of enthusiasts and scientists who attempt to find a trace of the Loch Ness monster by scouring the lake with sonar.	6-12	QuickTime Video
Sound Waves Underwater: True or False This interactive quiz from the NOVA Web site features an array of interesting facts about the nature of sound underwater.	3-12	HTML Interactive
Stellar Velocity: The Doppler Effect This interactive activity from the NOVA Web site illustrates the Doppler effect and shows how it applies to measuring the direction and speed of stellar objects.	6-12	Flash Interactive
Understanding Vibration and Pitch This video segment presents a variety of sounds -- from animals to machines to musical instruments -- while introducing the basic concepts of vibration, volume, and pitch.	K-5	QuickTime Video
Vibration Patterns on a Chladni Plate In this interactive activity adapted from the University of Southern California, investigate how sound vibrations cause patterns to form in sand on a metal plate.	9-12	Flash Interactive
Virtual Glass Xylophone: Tunes and Spoons Play and record songs on this virtual glass xylophone. This interactive activity from ZOOM demonstrates how the pitch of a sound changes depending on the size of a glass and the amount of water in it.	3-8	Executable Interactive
What Is a Wave? This interactive activity adapted from the University of Utah's ASPIRE Lab provides an overview of the characteristics and properties of various types of waves, including light waves, sound waves, and water waves.	6-12	Flash Interactive