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Kitchen Jamboree
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In this activity, learners observe, explore and investigate vibrating instruments in everyday places and create music in unique ways.
Catch the Beat
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This is an activity about music, movement, and math. Learners will start a rhythm pattern with 2, 3, or 4 beats. For instance, tap your foot, jump, clap, repeat.

The Straw Flute
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In this is activity about sound and vibration, learners create their own 'flutes' with drinking straws, then investigate how changing the length of the straw affects the sounds that are produced.

Battle the Baby!
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In this interactive game, learners compare their music-listening skills with that of a three-month-old baby.

Metal Noise Maker
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In this activity, learners explore how sound travels through solid objects better than through air. Leaners attach a metal clothes hanger to a piece of string and hold it to their ears.
Coat Hanger Chimes
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In this physics activity (page 4 of the PDF), learners will--using nothing more than a coat hanger and some string--explore and understand sound energy and how it moves.

Musical Coat Hangers
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Discover how sound travels and what materials make better sound conductors. Can you hear better with your fingers in your ears? Find out with a coat hanger and some string!

Oboe? Oh, Boy!
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In this activity, learners create a straw oboe to explore sound and pitch.

Stereo Hanger
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In this activity, learners investigate sound wave science, in stereo! Learners construct a "stereo" out of a metal coat hanger and piece of string to explore sound vibrations.

Build a Soundscape
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This is a virtual representation of a sound mixer containing pre-looped sounds of animal, insect, and environmental noises.

The Mosquito/El Mosquito: Interactive Sound Game
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In this online activity, learners test their ability to hear different frequencies and compare their frequency range with the frequency range of other animals and insects.

Sound Mixer: A Multi-track Mixer of Animal Sounds
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This is a virtual representation of a sound mixer containing pre-looped sounds of animal, insect, and environmental noises.

Super Sounding Drum
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In this activity, learners construct drums out of everyday containers (like bowls or food containers) and shrink wrap. Learners use a hair dryer to affix and tighten the shrink wrap to the container.