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

In this design challenge activity, learners build a four-stringed instrument that can play a tune.

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 design challenge activity, learners add headphones to a previously built instrument (see "Build a Band" activity) to make it easier to hear.

String Thing is an interactive online game in which learners change a virtual string's tension, length, and gauge to create different musical pitches.

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.

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.