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In this activity, learners will explore the ways natural materials can produce sounds. Appropriate for any age, learners can make individual music or create a symphony with others.

free Ages 4 - adult 10 to 30 minutes
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Break open that used musical toy and squish some Play-Doh over the circuit boards, and you will hear some weird and distorted sounds the manufacturer never intended!

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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This activity (on page 2 of the PDF under SciGirls Activity: Music and Sound) is a full inquiry investigation into sound frequency.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity related to music and sound vibrations, learners make a phonograph or record player out of simple materials. First, learners assemble the turntable, arm, and sound cone.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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Make a rattle-like musical instrument! Shake it, hit it, spin it any way you want to!

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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String Thing is an interactive online game in which learners change a virtual string's tension, length, and gauge to create different musical pitches.

free Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners turn an ordinary metal coat-hanger into a (very quiet) musical instrument.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, you'll use a paper cup, a piece of cloth, and some string to make a musical instrument called a cuica (pronounced KWEE-kah).

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this quick activity (page 1 of the PDF under SciGirls Activity: Music and Sound), learners will construct an oboe-like instrument from a plastic drinking straw by cutting the end to split it into t

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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Put on a pair of gloves and be the conductor of your invisible orchestra!

Over $20 per student Ages 8 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore how musical instruments are engineered.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners explore sound by constructing tube zithers, stringed instruments from Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.

$5 - $10 per student Ages 6 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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Learners design and create musical instruments from common objects; their challenge is to create an instrument that can make three different tones.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 45 to 60 minutes
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What's a Pickle-Oh? Two pieces of pickle on a stick are connected to a Pico Cricket (micro controller). When you slide the pickles apart the note changes.

Over $20 per student Ages 8 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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This is a simple activity for learners to create a traditional musical instrument. Pan Pipes have developed all over the world in different cultures, from South America to Greece and China.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners build a musical drum using a cardboard tube, plastic wrap, and beads.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 18 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, leaners build their very own rainsticks, an instrument filled with pebbles and seeds that create sounds like falling rain. Save costs by using material found around the home.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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Play-Doh is conductive! Use the semiconductive qualities of Play-Doh to make your own squeezable instrument. Pico Cricket is required.

Over $20 per group Ages 6 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners will create their own percussion instrument with recycled materials. Learners will explore design, fabrication, cause and effect and sound through this activity.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 4 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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Learners build pan pipes out of drinking straws by cutting them to different lengths. Then, learners make music by blowing across the straws and playing some well-known songs.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes