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What is sound?
Lesson Title
Your Name Aja Harvey
Purpose For students to understand how sound is made and travels so that
it can be heard by the ear.
3.2.3.A2 Recognize that all object and materials in the world are
made of matter
ENGAGE 1) Show a clip from Jurassic Park depicting the water in the
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
There must be a will to produce a superior thing.
John Ruskin
EDUC 513: Elementary Science Methods
Activities cup on the dash board of the jeep rippling.
2) Students describe what they observe with the cup of water
3) Ask What they think is the reason the water moved
EXPLORE 4) Discuss various ways that sound is made and how matter
Activities is a key part of the process
5) In groups, students will make different pitched sounds
using objects in the room and their bodies
6) Students will observe and record what happens when the
sounds are made
7) Formulate and record predictions and evidence on how
sound travels
8) Predict what sound would look like if it could be seen with
the eyes as it moves using a piece of string along the floor