Sound Lab Stations – 9/24/14

This week we have been learning about Sound. Today we had our Sound Lab Station day. Students rotated between two stations. The first station was using straws to make duck calls. We talked about how the differing lengths of the straws affected the sound the straw made. My 4th period worked the best together of any of my classes — so I snapped their pictures as they worked and videoed one of our Duck Call lab groups. Enjoy!

http://instagram.com/p/tV5BAssZmx/?modal=true

Here are a couple of pictures of other 4th period kiddos working on their duck calls. I know parents will LOVE me for this!! 🙂 The information for this lab, and the link to the lab pages are in the post below or located here.

The next two pictures are from our other lab station. This lab was called Vibrating Ruler station. We’ve been talking about the different pitches of sound in Science — and this lab was a great test for listening to the different pitches of sound from different lengths of rulers. I found this lab activity here.

 

 

Sound Lab Class Demonstrations — 4/14/14

In Science class today we made duck calls using straws. Is this Science? Yes, it sure is. All sounds come from vibrations. That little triangle the kids cut in the straw forced the two pieces of the point to vibrate very fast against each other when they blew through the straw. The vibrations from their breath going through the straw created the strange duck-like sound that we heard during the lab. I thought this was a fun activity for our 4th graders to conclude our Sound Unit. In the post below, I added the link for this lab. I found it at Teachers pay Teachers for free. That post is located here.

1st Period

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBAr2WNz99I&noredirect=1

 

2nd Period

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBFAEUfLTc

4th Period

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZwBwtmd99M

5th Period

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1TH8C9AXxM

6th Period

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnnGXGJCOcc

 

** These videos were uploaded to You Tube via the You Tube capture app on my You Tube account. My You Tube account is private (only I have access to it), and it only has school related material on it. An example of this is I upload all of our science videos we watch in class – Bill Nye, Mr. Parr, etc. on it for documentation. These videos I have recorded today are unlisted on You Tube and can only be located via the links above or on my personal school You Tube account. Unfortunately, we live in a time where it is dangerous for personal information to be shared. However, I wanted our parents and visitors to see the fun we had today in Science in a safe way. If you have any comments or concerns, feel free to contact me via email at kristigoggans@gmail.com.

Sound Lab and Important Reminders — 4/14/14

Today in Science we reviewed our Sound Study Guide for our test tomorrow, and then we spent the last 20 minutes of class working in groups on the sound lab pictured above. I saw this Lab on Teachers pay Teachers for free a while back, and I just knew it was perfect for our 4th graders to do during our Sound Unit. Lots of people doubted that this would be a successful lab due to the noise factor (You know who you are!! ) — but it was so much fun and so inexpensive! The lab is posted here. However, parents may not be too happy with me for teaching these little angels how easy it is to make a duck call!! 🙂 Several kiddos mentioned going home and making more this evening!! I videoed each class demonstrating their duck calls — it will be in the post above 🙂

Important Reminders:
Sound Homework due on Tuesday
Sound Quiz on Tuesday

We will start our Light Unit on Wednesday.

What’s Happening in Science/Sound Homework

Today in Science we started our Sound unit. We will be splitting Chapter 14 into two parts — Lesson 1 and 2 will be our Sound unit, and Lesson 3 and 4 will be our Light Unit.

Thursday:
Today we read Lesson 1 of Chapter 14 in our textbook. We also reviewed our 7 items from today’s lesson that is on our NB 103 Study Guide. Students also received their Sound Homework assignment today (pictured above). This assignment will be a fun, easy daily work assignment. This is due on Tuesday.

Friday:
I will be checking students Physical Science Title Page on NB 102. Students have had this assignment since last Friday. We will read Lesson 2 Chapter 14, and then we will review our Study Guide on NB 103.

Monday:
We are reviewing for our quiz on Tuesday. After our review, we are completing a fun lab activity on Sound. Pictures to come!

Tuesday:
We are testing on Chapter 14 Lesson 1 and 2 today. Also, our Sound Homework is due today.