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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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Learners make bell bracelets, place them on their wrists or ankles, and then dance to the rhythms and sounds the bells make. Many cultures use ankle or wrist bells to make music during dancing.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 11 10 to 30 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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In this activity, learners construct a playable kazoo from inexpensive materials. They will experience how vibration creates sound waves and music.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 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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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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In this activity, learners create a traditional Mexican noisemaker (a matraca) using cardboard, craft sticks, and a wooden dowel.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this math activity, learners play a game and identify patterns with fun moves and sounds. Discover how dancing and signing involve patterns.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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With a straw, two craft sticks, and some rubber bands, construct a noisemaker called a Sound Sandwich and explore how vibration produces sound.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, you'll use a straw, a water bottle and a paper tube to make an instrument that's very much like a saxophone.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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Audio Boggle is an activity that lets you listen to a track (that you make yourself) and see what you can hear!

$5 - $10 per student Ages 8 - 18 2 to 4 hours
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In this fun group activity involving music and movement, learners are introduced to the idea that many insects walk by using their legs to create "alternating triangles." Learners sing the "Ants Go Ma

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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Listen to the beat of gravity. By taking two strings with weights tied to them at different, yet uniform intervals, you can hear the uniformity (and rhythm) of gravity's accelerating pull.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 6 - 14 Under 5 minutes
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Create an instrument that you don't play--you just listen to it through tubes of various lengths.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 14 5 to 10 minutes
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Do you have an extra portable cassette tape player hanging around?

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners experiment with their voices and noisemakers to understand the connections between vibrations and the sounds created by those vibrations.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 4 - 6 10 to 30 minutes
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Build a phonograph record player using a cactus needle, a record, LEGOs gear box, and a piece of paper! This activity uses a Pico Cricket to turn the motor.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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In this fun snack and craft activity, young learners make "Ants on a Log" and their own model of an insect. The purpose is to learn the three main insect body parts—head, thorax and abdomen.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 4 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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Make your own simple speaker so you can listen to your favorite radio station. Just wind a coil, attach it to a piece of cardboard or Styrofoam, hold a magnet nearby, and listen.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity (located on page 2 of PDF), learners sing together a song that gives details about the dinosaur species Suchomimus (pronounced “Sook-o-mime-us”).

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 4 - 8 10 to 30 minutes