Sound and Vibrations

Ages 8-9

Learn about how sound travels and explore how vibrations are the source of sound production in this engaging lesson.
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Description

By the end of this unit, students will be able to:

  • learn about how sound travels;
  • explore how vibrations are the source of sound production;
  • understand how we hear sound in our ear;
  • identify objects that vibrate to create sound (e.g., guitar strings, vocal cords).

Year 4 Science: Sound

  • identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating
  • recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear
  • find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it
  • find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it
  • recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases.

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