Lesson+Plans+and+Websites

[|http://mypages.iit.edu/~smile/ph9536.html] I like this lesson plan because it incorporates demonstrations with a guided discussion. I think this will keep the kids on track with what and why they are doing the activity, and it will keep them engaged in the discussion because the activities are incorporated. The activies include demonstration with a tuning fork, placing a air filled ballon over a boom box speaker, placing a paper plate with confetti on it over a boom box speaker, a ping pong ball, ruler, and other various demonstrations. If I were to use this lesson plan I would probably not include all hands on activities. I would limit the lesson to maybe 3 or 4 activities because of time and the length of time a child is going to be able focus.
 * Jessica || Sound Vibrations Lesson Plan(Jessica Forgety)

Volume and Pitch Lesson Plan(Jessica Forgety) http://sitemaker.umich.edu/alyssarumsey/files/sound_science_lesson_7_revised.pdf This lesson incorporates an activity with cup and string telephones. This would be a lot of fun for children to do, and discover how it works. The lesson creator mentions that the type of string used will either make this work or not work, so it would be important to try out different types of string to determine the best one, before presenting the lesson. The activity also includes an activity where students act out the parts of the ear which sound is produced and heard. I think this would be beneficial for overall understanding of sound. The rest of the lesson incorporates stations where sounds are tested through glasses, tuning forks, etc. The lesson also includes assessments throughout the lesson; these assessments would help to make sure students are understanding concepts before moving on to the next concept.

Lesson plan and activity guide is located on pages 40-43 in AIMS Energy Explorations Book. Lesson Plan: I like this activity because it will allow the students to create their own instrument, using a cup, construction paper, and string. They also get to decorate the cup to make it look like a bird; this will go along with the crowing sound that the string will produce. I would like to add conceptual information at the beginning of this lesson so that the students understand what pitch and volume is and how it can be manipulated. I will ask them to manipulate the volume and pitch of the sound with their string. I will also incorporate the following video: [] I also like these videos: [] [] (This video can also be downloaded and contains a drum making activity) || @http://www.amgen.com/pdfs/aaste/RI-DorisLawson.pdf This looks like an awesome lesson plan designed specifically for 3rd pitch and volume. It uses stations and allows students to work in teams. Students investigate how size, length, shape, etc. affect the pitch and volume of different types of sounds. Students also use their own voices to discover how they can change pitch and volume. Groups report their findings at the end of the lesson and the teacher finishes the lesson by demonstrating volume, pitch, and length with a guitar. It also won the 2007 Amgen Award for Science Teaching. i will modify this lesson by using the guitar activity at @http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/changingsounds.html at the end instead of an actual guitar unless I can find one to borrow.
 * Crowing Cups-AIMS (Jessica Forgety)
 * Meagan || **//*Sound - Volume and Pitch - 3rd Grade (Meagan Ricks)*//**

@http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/2603 This lesson also involves stations and student presentation of discoveries. It allows students to specifically focus on the changing of pitch and volume in certain sounds. This lesson "will stimulate the class to think about the different things they can use to measure with, (our ears) what they can measure, (the volume and pitch levels) and what can they can control, (the amount of water in the each bottle, whether to blow gently or hard into each bottle or not, whether they will pluck the guitar strings gently or strongly, whether the string will be pulled tightly or loosely on the guitar, etc)." Students keep a record of their observations and what they find to be the most important.
 * //Differences in Sounds - 3rd Grade// (Meagan Ricks)**

@http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/mnstep/activities/26930.html This lesson is made for students to investigate and observe how sounds are made and how they can be changed. Students are separated into groups and each group gets various instruments and materials to experiment with. All discoveries are recorded in a chart and students share findings on their assigned instruments after the activity. The lesson also focuses on addressing vocabulary words: vibration, pitch, and volume.
 * //Investigating Sounds: Identifying Vibration, Pitch, and Volume// - //3rd Grade// (Meagan Ricks)**

__**Websites**__ __@http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/changingsounds.html__ This is a fun website with activities for students to experiment with changing pitch and volume on a virtual guitar, drum, and bottle. @http://www.iknowthat.com/FT/index.html This a really neat website with tons of activities, games, etc. It requires an account but offers a free trial and many educational options. It's not only for sound but offers activities for all subjects.

@http://www.fi.edu/fellows/fellow2/apr99/soundsci.html This is a helpful page with some good information on sound waves and examples of how they work including one about tuning forks (which we will use in our box). It also has a short activity at the beginning to relate vibrations to how vocal cords work.

@http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/teachersresources/ages9_10/tr_changing_sounds_wk.shtml This is a cute and simple worksheet that can be used as a quick reinforcement or assessment tool. It asks students to order pictures by the pitch which each would produce.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/schools/scienceclips/quizengine?quiz=changing_sounds&templateStyle=ages9_10&topicname=Changing sounds This is a quiz for students over the changing of sounds. || This is an activity to let students use materials along with a cup and string to make noise and produce different sounds with different objects. I like this site because it allows kids to be creative and work in groups to find sounds produced without being told to do this or that to make a sound. It also has discussion questions to go over with the class so you know they understood the experiment and gives them time to share their results. It also contains a assessment, vocabulary, concepts, and other useful information for teaching about sound.
 * Jamie || **1. A Cup of Sound Sound Investigation K-5 (Jamie Szczygiel)**
 * @http://www.dosits.org/files/dosits/Cup%20of%20Sound.pdf**

@http://www.vrml.k12.la.us/3rd/homework/science/unit_activities_SC/unit2/Un2_Act3.htm This website shows how to make a rubber band guitar and how to play it to produce certain sounds. It contains lesson plans and resources to help you with the activity, interactive links, and a website with a cartoon to get students attention. They get in groups and stretch rubber bands of different thicknesses to produce different pitches. It also helps students formulate questions about sounds and pitches.
 * 2. Rubber Band Guitars 3rd grade (Jamie Szczygiel)**

Students get to explore sound travel and decide which matter it travels better through. They use many different items and explore the sound travel with them. At first it gives them a chance to see a demo done to explore sound travel then they get to get in groups and actually test it out for themselves.
 * 3. How Sound Travels (Jamie Szczygiel)**
 * http://mypages.iit.edu/~smile/ph9110.html**

@http://kidsciencechallenge.com/pdfs/2010activities/Sensational_Sounds_2010_Sound_Sandwich.pdf This site allows children to make their own sound sandwich to produce sounds and vibration. They make something like a harmonica and blow the rubber bands to produce noise.
 * 4. Sound Sandwich (Jamie Szczygiel)**

@http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/phy03.sci.phys.howmove.lp_sound/ In this website you make drums and kazoos produced from straws and cans and balloons. They experiment with sounds made with different objects and get to experience many ways to create sounds.
 * 5. Sound vibrations (Jamie Szczygiel)**

Websites

@http://www.brainpop.com/science/energy/sound/preview.weml This website tells kids about sound and lets them play games and read about it.

@http://www.neok12.com/Sound.htm This website is about sound.It contains videos on sound and games that show pictures of sound ad labeling the ear.

@http://science.pppst.com/sound.html This website is for teacher and kids. The teacher have powerpoints on sound, lessons, free online games for kids, video clips and clip art for kids. The kids can get on there and do a flash presentation or play sound games and activities. || http://www.cstone.net/~bcp/3/3MrSci.htm 1. This site has six lesson plans on sound. Starting with what they hear around them and how pitch and volume change with vibrations. The last lesson plan is where the class makes different instrument to play in a class orchestra.I really like this lesson plan because it allows the students to listen to their surrounding to identify noises without seeing what is making the noise. It also has a poem for the students to fill out about sounds they like and sounds they do not like. I feel like this lesson will keep the students engaged and they will enjoy the activity.
 * Gretchen || Sound- Volume and Pitch

2. Sound is a vibration-Aims Book This lesson teaches children how sounds are produced by vibrations and how the rate of vibration can affect the pitch. They use different mediums to hear how the sound travels, materials such as Tuning forks, table tennis balls, and a ruler. The students get to make a mini-ukulele using a ruler, pencil, and a rubber band.

3.Brain Pop Jr sound lesson @http://www.brainpopjr.com/science/energy/sound/grownups.weml This site gives a lesson and several activities for the classroom and for the family at home. This will help students learn about sound as they work around the classroom and will reenforce their knowledge when they do sound activities at home with their family.

Websites 1. http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/schools/index1.htm This website teaches about sound, vibrations, pitch, and frequency through an interactive video. It has several chapters all geared toward sound and what it travels through.

2. @http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/physical_processes/sound/play.shtml This site is great for teaching sound. It has a comic strip video that acts out a story about how they need a certain sound and its pitch to save a friends life. It shows the vibrations of the sound they need, then it goes to a game where they help create and find the sound. There is also a quiz on sound that the students can do.

3.@http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/9_10/changing_sounds.shtml This site has a variety of instruments that the students would use in interactive play learning what happens when they use a long or short sound. They also see what happen when they pluck the guitar hard or soft as it changes pitch and volume. The site will play the sound the different instruments make and they are able to distinguish between pitch and volume. There is also a sound quiz for them to further challenge themselves. ||