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Sound Energy

Sound Energy

TEKS Objective

Students will identify and discuss how different forms of energy such as light, heat, and sound are important to everyday life.

Essential Understanding

The student knows that energy, force, and motion are related and are a part of their everyday life.

Science Background

Changing Sounds: BBC Learning (website) - Basic information about properties of sound, including pitch and loudness.

Changing Sounds
BBC Learning, www.bbc.co.uk

A Sound Education: K8 Science (video) - Dr. Greg Vogt explains the science of sound as a form of energy and discusses hearing, soundwaves, and common misconceptions about sound.

A Sound Education
K8 Science, www.k8science.org

Signature Lesson

Sound Garden: PBS (website) - Students make a “sound garden” to compare and contrast the sounds made by different materials.

Sound Garden
PBS, www.pbs.org

The Senses Teacher's Guide: Baylor College of Medicine (pdf) - Students explore how their brain and senses help them understand their surroundings. Download guide and use activity 5 - Hearing and the Senses with accompanying power point

The Senses Teacher's Guide
Baylor College of Medicine, www.bioedonline.org

Supporting Lessons

Sound is Vibration, Five Senses: SEDL (PDF) - Part of a comprehensive unit on the senses, designed specifically for kindergarten, this lesson focuses on sound energy.

Sound is Vibration Five Senses
SEDL, www.sedl.org

Elaboration Lessons and Extensions

Super Sounding Drum: PBS Kids (PDF) - Make drums using different types of containers.

Super Sounding Drum
PBS Kids, www.pbskids.org

Assessment Ideas

Have students use a tuning fork or a metal triangle to experience, and then verbally explain, how sound is produced through vibration.

Literature Connections

All About Sound. Trumbauer, Lisa. (ISBN-13: 9780516258478)

Sounds All Around. Pfeffer, Wendy (ISBN-13: 9780064451772)

Vibrations. Schaefer, Lola M. (ISBN-13: 9780736803991)

Related Science TEKS

(1.2A) Ask Questions
The student is expected to ask questions about organisms, objects, and events observed in the natural world.

(1.2B) Plan and Conduct Descriptive Investigations
The student is expected to plan and conduct simple descriptive investigations such as ways objects move.

(1.2C) Collect Data
The student is expected to collect data and make observations using simple equipment such as hand lenses, primary balances, and non-standard measurement tools.

(1.2D) Record and Organize Data & Observations
The student is expected to record and organize data and observations using pictures, numbers, and words.

(1.2E) Communicate Observations
The student is expected to communicate observations with others about simple descriptive investigations.

(1.4A) Tools for Collecting Information
The student is expected to collect information using tools, including computers, hand lenses, primary balances, cups, bowls, magnets, collecting nets, and notebooks; timing devices, including clocks and timers; non-standard measuring items such as paper clips and clothespins; weather instruments such as demonstration thermometers and wind socks; and materials to support observations of habitats of organisms such as terrariums and aquariums.

Related Math TEKS

1.12A  The student is expected to explain and record observations using objects, words, pictures, numbers, and technology.

1.13A  The student is expected to justify his or her thinking using objects, words, pictures, numbers, and technology.

Additional Resources

Exploring Sound: K8Science (PDF) - Students rotate through stations for each activity below and record what they learn about sound at each station in their science notebooks.

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