Vibrations & Sound
Understand that vibrating materials can make sound, and that sound can make materials vibrate
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Vibrations & Sound means knowing vibrating materials can make sound, and sound can make materials vibrate. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.
Spend about 12 minutes noticing vibration and sound together, then checking one fresh idea.
Connect sound with back-and-forth vibration in both directions.
Connect sound with back-and-forth vibration in both directions.
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Sound Waves
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Check understanding
- Describe that sounds are made when objects vibrate (move back and forth quickly)
- Give at least three examples of vibrating objects making sound (drum skin, guitar string, voice box)
- Demonstrate that sound can cause objects to vibrate (e.g. rice on a drum jumps when you shout near it)
“Can your child pluck a rubber band and explain that the vibrating band makes the sound, and then hold a ruler on a speaker and see it shake from the music?”
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- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Science
- Domain
- Waves, Light & Sound
- Age range
- Ages 6–10
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