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In this activity, learners build a musical drum using a cardboard tube, plastic wrap, and beads.

In this game, learners create flash cards with an image on one side (of an animal, for example) and the sound that animal makes on the other.

In this activity, learners explore sound by constructing an instrument toy that buzzes when you swing it.

In this activity, learners build a slide whistle using PVC pipe, bamboo skewer, and piece of foam. Construction of the instrument is relatively simple.

In this group activity, learners see and hear the speed of sound. A learner designated the "gonger" hits a gong, once every second, as the rest of the group watches and listens from a distance.

In this activity, learners create a xylophone by filling glasses with different amounts of water and tapping them with a metal spoon.

This lesson (on pages 15-24 of PDF) explores how sound is caused by vibrating objects. It explains that we hear by feeling vibrations passing through the air.

In this cooperative game, learners devise strategies about sharing a small space with each other.