SOUND - Activities

Experiment #1          Quiz #2          Quiz #1 (hard)          Quiz #3 (more difficult)

Quiz #4 (even more of a challenge)          Musical Vegetables

Choose one of the experiments in this list, try it at home and bring it to school to demonstrate for the rest of the class: 

  Hang in There!: To investigate whether sound travels better through a solid or a gas. Table Thunder: To investigate whether sound travels better through a solid or a gas. Tick Tock!: To investigate through which solid, sound travels best. Larynx Laughs!: To examine how the larynx or voice box vibrates as we speak. Good Vibrations!: To examine (hear and feel) sound vibrations! Squawkers and Screechers!: To create some strange sounds with everyday materials. Make your voice louder!: To create a megaphone and discover how we can make our voices louder and how we can hear more. Create a Paper Banger!: To create a loud bang with paper! Talking String!: To prove / examine how sound can travel through objects. Echoing Sound!: To bounce sound.
Finding the Beat. Be a doctor!: To make soft sounds loud.
A Sound Detector!: To examine how the ear detects the arrival of sound.
A Sound Gun!: To examine sound waves as they travel through the air.
A Model Ear!: To examine how the ear works by making a model ear!
Make a Hydrophone.:To make a hydrophone and to examine whether or not sound waves can travel under water.
Make some Musical Instruments: 1) To make a plastic drum.
Make some Musical Instruments: 2) To make some shakers.
Make some Musical Instruments: 3) To make a rubber guitar.
Make some Musical Instruments: 4) To make some Bottle Pipes.
Make some Musical Instruments: 5) To make a Reed Instrument.
 (Acknlwledgements: Kill o' the Grange National School Ireland)

To learn more about these experiments click on this link:

Simple Experiments in Sound