Project Description
Sound Sensation
Get ready to tune into the science of sound! From whispering secrets to booming beats, you’ll discover how we use vibrations to communicate in fun and fascinating ways. Listen up as our presenters explain the physics of sound- it will be music to your ears!
Level: Foundation to Year 3.
Duration: Available in a 60 or 90 minute format. We recommend a 90 minute format if budget and timetabling constraints allow.
Numbers: Each workshop can cater to a maximum of 30 children. However, smaller groups have better access to equipment and the facilitator.
State: VIC ONLY
Learning Outcomes
Sound is a vibration that travels in waves.
Sound can travel through solid, liquid, and gas, however cannot travel through the vacuum of space.
Pitch is how high or low a sound is and is measured in frequency (Hertz).
Volume is how loud or soft a sound is and is measured in decibels (dB).
Recognising senses are used to learn about the world around us.
Exploring how the human ear works and discussing animal ear shapes.
- Exploring different ways to produce sound using familiar objects and actions such as striking, blowing, scraping and shaking.
Exploring how traditional technology used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples produce their characteristic sounds.
Activities
Students will explore their sense of hearing with a blindfold class game, as the presenter strikes, taps, scrunches and shakes different objects.
Students will learn how the human ear works and compare our ears to other ears in the animal kingdom.
Students will learn how sound can travel through solids, liquids and gases by constructing a basic telephone and testing different variables.
Students will learn that sounds are vibrations via a loud and messy demonstration.
Students will learn that sound is energy, which can transform into other types of energy through a fun (and noisy!) activity with tuning forks, ping pong balls and water.
Students will learn how Indigenous Australians communicated (with sound vibrations) a long time ago, and participate in a group activity which explores sound, vibrations, air, pitch, volume and the doppler effect to communicate a message.
90 minute workshops also include the following:
Students will learn about sound and pitch by constructing a DIY guitar.
Victorian Curriculum Links
- People use science in their daily lives (VCSSU041)
- Objects are made of materials that have observable properties (VCSSU044)
- Light and sound are produced by a range of sources and can be sensed (VCSSU049)
- With guidance, identify questions in familiar contexts that can be investigated scientifically and predict what might happen based on prior knowledge (VCSIS065)
Scientific knowledge and understanding of the world changes as new evidence becomes available; science knowledge can develop through collaboration and connecting ideas across the disciplines and practice of science (VCSSU089)
Australian Curriculum Links
Light and sound are produced by a range of sources and can be sensed (ACSSU020)
- Objects are made of materials that have observable properties (ACSSU003)
- Science involves observing, asking questions about, and describing changes in, objects and events (ACSHE034)
- Participate in guided investigations to explore and answer questions (ACSIS025)
- Compare observations with those of others (ACSIS213)
- Different materials can be combined for a particular purpose (ACSSU031)
First Nations Australians’ ways of life reflect unique ways of being, knowing, thinking and doing (A_TSIC2)
