Topic D: Hearing and Sound
       24/06/2010

Program of Study - Learner Expectations

  1. Animal Hearing Project

  2. Ocean Odyssey Investigate the science of sound to solve the fishy goings-on... This interactive resource was produced by the Department of
    Engineering at the University of Cambridge. The site aims to teach children about science in a fun and interesting way, and promote the subject of engineering. (Sources of sounds, Loudness, Pitch)

  3. Wonderville How We Hear Join Proton the cat as he tests the Professor's latest invention - goggles that allow us to SEE sound waves.

  4. Worksheet (The Ear Quiz)

  5. Identifying and Sorting Sounds A sound identification activity with sorting of musical instruments by how the sound is made.
    Sound lesson outline

  6. Changing Sounds (interactive) BBC

  7. Sound and Hearing (science clips interactive BBC)

  8. Sound and Hearing (Crickweb) 2 activities; identifying sounds and sorting instrument sounds.

  9. Physics of Sound (Fossweb) learn how sound is made and how sound travels through different materials.

  10. Minutes From Me...Hearing questions and answers about hearing from the Franklin Institute Online

  11. Virtual Piano Is there a pattern in the music that you hear?

  12. Creating Music - An interactive site that lets you create music

  13. How Hearing Works (How Stuff Works)

  14. The Brain and Senses - Hearing - Learn how your ear works. Drag and drop the labels onto the parts of the ear.

  15. Let's Hear It For the Ear!

  16. Parts of the Ear