Sound Energy Word Search Puzzle

Most kids like completing Word Search Puzzles. 

Word Searches are also a good way to INTRODUCE or  REVIEW  important VOCABULARY.  

Learning Workroom's website has a FREE Word Search on Sound Energy that you can download and print.

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Sound Word Search Puzzle

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What Causes Sound?

Concepts

SOUND is a form of ENERGY.

Sound is produced when energy causes VIBRATIONS (rapid back and forth motion).
Energy is the source of all vibrations.

Here is a fun sound activity to do with your students!

Materials

• music (from CD, radio, stereo, etc.)
• drum (store bought or home made: (old coffee or other round can covered with wrapping paper, etc.)
• cheerios or paper clips
• empty shoe box
• rubber band (elastic)
• notebook
• pencil or pen

Directions

• Play some music for the children.
• Ask the children if they know what causes sound and how sound energy gets from the source (CD, radio, etc.) to our ears so that we can hear it.
• Tell the children that today we are going to learn what causes sound. 
 

• Have the students place some cheerios or small paper clips on the drum. Have them PREDICT what they think will happen when they tap on the drum. Then have them OBSERVE carefully as they tap on the drum several times. What did they hear? What did they see?

• Place a rubber band (elastic) around an empty shoe box. Have the students PREDICT what they think will happen if they snap the rubber band. Have the students snap the band and OBSERVE what happens. What did they hear? What did they see?
• What happens if they grasp the rubber band and stop the vibration; will the sound stop?

• Have the students place two fingers on their larynx (voice box) and say "ahhh". What did they hear? What did they feel?

• Discuss the fact that in all the activities sounds are produced when energy causes a medium (object) to VIBRATE (move back and forth quickly).

• Students could see the results of the vibrations with the drum and rubber band and feel the vibrations when they touched their larynx. When you strike a drum or snap a rubber band, you are using energy. This energy causes the top of the drum and rubber band to vibrate  (move back and forth quickly). The vibrations cause the sound.  When the top of the drum or rubber band stops moving the sound stops. When they speak or sing their throat vibrates.    

• Have children sketch pictures in their science notebooks or journals of today's activities.

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Have fun teaching about sound!

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Sound Energy Introduction

KWL CHART

One way to start a new topic is to create a KWL Chart (a 3 column list) with your students.

KWL CHART

Sound Energy

1. In the 1st column, list what the students think they Know about the topic.
2. In the 2nd column, list what they Wonder about the topic. (They can list their questions about the topic here.)
3. Save the chart until the topic/unit is complete.  At that time the students and teacher together can fill in the 3rd column by listing what the children have Learned.

You can visit Learning Workroom's Website for a FREE KWL Chart to download.

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Have fun teaching about sound!

Light Energy Resources

Here are some resources which you might find helpful in your study of Light Energy.

Website: 

Optics for Kids

Video:

The Magic School Bus Gets A Bright Idea (Light)

Books:

 

Using a Prism to View a Rainbow

The Colors of White Light

This activity is to have students understand that WHITE LIGHT is actually made up of a SPECTRUM of colors.

                 Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet

Too cloudy....had to wait 2 days for the Sun!

Materials

• Prism
• Flashlight
• White wall, white ceiling, or white poster board
• Lots of natural sunlight, flashlight, or overhead projector light

Directions:

• Turn on a flashlight.
• Ask the children a question, "What color is light?"
• Tell them that we will be doing an activity/experiment to get the answer to our question.
• Put a prism in a very sunny window or have the students hold up a prism to the natural light or the flashlight, etc.
• The students should OBSERVE a rainbow on the wall, ceiling, or poster board.
• Discuss the students' observations.
• Have students SKETCH a picture of what they observed. 

 

Explanation: White light hits the glass prism. When the light hits the prism, it is slowed down and bent. When the colors come out the other side, they are bent again. Each color (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) is bent by a different amount and the colors are separated.


More examples of light bending!
Materials needed: prism and straws or crayons
Directions: Place a prism over the straws or crayons. Have Fun!

Explanation: Light travels fastest through air. When light enters the glass prism it slows down and changes direction a little, making the straws or crayons look bent.




Have fun with rainbows!

 

Rainbow Tally Chart and Graph

Math Lesson

In the previous lesson, the kids learned that white light is really made up of the 7 colors in the spectrum.
In this activity, children can conduct a survey to find out their family and friends' favorite colors in the spectrum. They can follow up that activity by making a graph to display their data.

Materials

• clipboard or notebook
• pencil
• ruler
• crayons or markers

Directions

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• Have students make a list or chart of the 7 colors of the color spectrum (remember ROY G BIV).

                *red
                *orange
                *yellow
                *green
                *blue
                *indigo
                *violet

• Have students poll their family and friends as to their favorite color. They should mark a tally for each vote.

• Next they could count the votes and create a tally chart or frequency chart with their data.

Tally Chart

   

Frequency Chart

• Older children should use the data in the tally chart to create a bar or other graph to display their results.The graph should include:

                     ~ title
                    ~ 7 columns (for the 7 colors)
                    ~ 2 labeled axis
                     ~a numerical scale starting at zero

• Finally students should explain their data (oral or written). Which color had the most votes? Which color had the fewest votes? Etc.
• More advanced math students can also find the mean, medium, mode, maximum, minimum, and range for the data.

ROY G BIV Video, Song, Book, and Craft (Rainbows)

Science and Music

White Light is really made up from a group of colors called the SPECTRUM.
The colors of the spectrum are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
An easy way to remember this is to remember the ACRONYM, "ROY G BIV". Each letter stands for one of the colors in the spectrum.

  

  

Here is a cute little song and video about the color spectrum and ROY G BIV. (It's a hit with the kids!)

Click Here: ROY G BIV Video and Song


Arts and Crafts Follow-Up

Have the kids draw and color their own rainbow using the 7 colors of the spectrum. Drawing paper or white paper plates (cut in half) with some crayons, paints, or markers should be enough to get the kids started.
(For younger kids, the teacher may have to draw the rainbow, then help the kids choose the correct colors.)

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Instead of using crayons, I've seen some students use paint, colored cheerios, or small squares of colored tissue paper glued on the paper plates. :)

Children might even surprise you when you give them some sidewalk chalk. They may draw you a picture like the following when at the park or at outdoor recess.

Katie at Sergeant Major Mom's Blog made an AWESOME Layered Rainbow Cake. Here is a link to her post.
Click Here: Katie's Layered Rainbow Cake


Language Arts

A book for children on this topic is The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow, A Book about Color.  (Have you met Ms. Frizzle?)

 

MATH Extension Activity

To add a math activity to this theme, students could tally and graph their favorite color!


Have fun learning about rainbows!