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Sound

picture of boy playing guital picture of the ear picture of people dancing
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages
/9_10/changing_sounds_fs.shtml

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Music experiments and a quiz about sound

Pluck the guitar strings or click the speaker to hear the sound each recorder makes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/quiz/newsid_3790000/3790861.stm

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A quiz about sound from Newsround.

What is noise measured in? What level of sound can damage your hearing? Choose your answers to these questions and more on the Newsround quiz.

www.ltscotland.org.uk/5to14/resources/science/light/index.asp

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Animation showing sound waves.
Science of Sound

Go to Speed of Sound. Enter a distance and find out the time it takes for sound to travel this distance through air water and steel.

www.brainpop.com/technology/communications/telephone/

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Find out how a telephone works.

Watch a movie. Do a quiz.
How do phones connect?
What happens when you speak into a mouthpiece?
www.innerbody.com/anim/ear.html

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Watch a brilliant animation about how an ear works.

What happens inside your ear?
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/science/
physical/15_act.shtml

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Watch a cartoon about sound, do a quiz or print off a worksheet.

Order the sentences to show how sound is made and how it travels.

You will need speakers or headphones for some of these sites.

 


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