Science Topics

Use science topic words to find web sites with lesson plans and activities.

Sound

1. Kit and curricular companions
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 026393
   This Internet site provides a connection of links to curricula resources for technology, life, Earth, and physical science teachers in grades K-8. Developed by the Keystone Science Network, the site is intended to supplement national standards-based science kits, including Science and Technology for Children (STC), FOSS, and Insights; but all teachers will be able to use the resources to support their teaching.
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2. Conceptual physics SURF
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 012952
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for high school physics students, contains supplementary simulations and Internet resources that accompany the CONCEPTUAL PHYSICS curriculum. CONCEPTUAL PHYSICS is a physics program that uses simple language and cartoon like sketches to make physics more accessible to students.
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3. Exploratorium, the museum of science, art and human perception
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1996 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 008389
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades K to 12 by the Exploratorium, offers online resources to support science education, virtual field trips to the museum, and introduces visitors to on line technologies through special exhibitions. The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception with over 500 interactive hands-on exhibits.
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4. Little shop of physics
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1997 Grade(s): K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 010905
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Department of Physics of Colorado State University for grades K to 16, is the homepage of The Little Shop of Physics, an outreach program that specializes in providing hands-on physics exhibitions to area schools. In addition to information about the program, the site also contains a collection of hands-on physics experiments that students can do either at the computer or in the classroom or at home with simple household materials.
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5. Hands-On Technology Program
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1997 Grade(s): K - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 011636
   This Internet site, designed for students in grades K to 8, consists of activities in the areas of science and math. The science activities are further split into several units such as sound, dinosaurs, and recycling, each of which provides experiments related to a particular subject.
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6. Bells in your ears
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 101312
   Does sound travel better through solids or gases? This material is part of a series of hands-on science activities designed to arouse student interest. Here the student hangs a metal fork from a pencil using string, and then strikes the fork while the eraser end of the pencil is in his or her ear.
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7. Favorite and alarming sounds
   Date: 2003 Grade: K Cost: Free ENC#: 100534
   In these activities, kindergarten students identify a variety of sounds and explore how some sounds can warn us of danger. First, the students listen to the sounds produced by such objects as sticks, bells, and toy pistols.
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8. Objects vibrate
   Date: 2003 Grade: K Cost: Free ENC#: 100533
   In these activities, kindergarten students explore how vibrating objects produce sound. Students observe the waves generated by a vibrating tuning fork when it is dipped in water.
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9. Talking tubes
   Date: 2003 Grade: K Cost: Free ENC#: 100532
   This activity introduces kindergarten students to how the ear functions in hearing. Students first observe how the ticking of a clock travels through a paper towel tube.
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10. Sound is vibrations
    Date: 2003 Grade: K Cost: Free ENC#: 100530
    In this activity, kindergarten students explore how sound is produced by experimenting with a variety of glass bottles filled with different levels of water. Students are invited to blow across the bottles and to sequence the sounds they produce from lowest to highest.
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11. Sound
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): 3 - 4 Cost: Free ENC#: 100565
    This unit, developed for grade 3 by Paso Partners, introduces the physics of sound. Paso Partners offers an integrated curriculum designed to help teachers instruct Hispanic students who have limited English language skills.
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12. El sonido
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): 3 - 4 Cost: Free ENC#: 100836
    This teacher's resource, developed for grade 3, offers a Spanish translation for a unit about sound. It also provides the Spanish translation for the background information and the Getting the Idea section of each lesson in the unit.
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13. National Science Center (NSC): teacher tools
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 026344
    This Internet site offers hands-on activities and resources for K-12 science and mathematics teachers. The National Science Center (NSC), in a partnership with the United States Army, developed this site to stimulate interest in mathematics and science careers and to improve technical literacy in students.
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14. Quieting the skies
    Date: 1999 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 016865
    This electronic document, part of the NASA CONNECT series, is an online educator's guide to introducing students in grades 6 to 12 to the science of sound. The series links the national mathematics and science standards to aeronautics and demonstrates the application of the standards through electronic visits by satellite and the Internet to the NASA workplace.
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15. Science Court hands-on activities
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): K - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 017990
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades K to 8, is an online version of the same titled CD-ROM series, SCIENCE COURT, that uses animated courtroom drama, hands-on science activities, and humor to teach students fundamental science concepts and model scientific practice. Each program in the series involves students in an animated courtroom drama that focuses on a basic science concept such as the water cycle, gravity, and sound.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)