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Good Vibrations
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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.
Headphone Helper
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In this design challenge activity, learners add headphones to a previously built instrument (see "Build a Band" activity) to make it easier to hear.
Oboe? Oh, Boy!
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In this activity, learners create a straw oboe to explore sound and pitch.
Make Pan Pipes
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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.
String Thing
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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.
AM in the PM
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In this activity, learners will listen to as many radio stations as possible to discover that AM radio signals can travel many hundreds of miles at night.
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.
Sound Off!
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This activity includes several games about animal sounds. Using their sense of hearing and communicating with various kinds of noisemakers, learners role-play predator and prey.
Let's Make Music
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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.
Slide Whistle
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In this activity, learners build a slide whistle using PVC pipe, bamboo skewer, and piece of foam. Construction of the instrument is relatively simple.
Tune Booster
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In this activity, learners build unique sound enhancing inventions with items from around the house to amplify sound from their smart phone's speakers.
Electric Cup Guitar
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Make a one-string "guitar" by stringing a cup with some fishing line. You amplify the plucking of the string by placing a piezo contact microphone and mini battery powered amplifier inside the cup.
Musical Coathanger
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In this activity, learners turn an ordinary metal coat-hanger into a (very quiet) musical instrument.
Probability: Rock Around The Clock
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In this math lesson, learners apply the Monte Carlo method of simulation to determine a reasonable estimate.
Torsion Drum
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In this activity, learners build a musical drum using a cardboard tube, plastic wrap, and beads.
Energetic Musical Instruments
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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.
Make a Speaker
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In this activity, learners explore how an electromagnet works by making a simple one. Using this knowledge, learners design a diagram to make a working speaker using household materials.
Cuica (Laughing Cup): Make a Musical Instrument
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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).
Groovy Sounds
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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.
Making Circuits
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In this activity, learners explore electricity and conductivity to find that many things conduct electricity including copper, pencil lead, fruit, play-doh, and even people!