Sound
UNIT-7LA- MAKING SOUNDS
LO: To understand how are different sounds made.
Warm up
Hummingbird ‘hums’ and makes
sound while flapping its wings
very fast.
Think like a ‘scientist’ –
How is this sound produced?
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GCS Values: Kindness / Honesty / Integrity / Respect
LO: To understand how are different sounds made.
Lesson Outcomes
Cross Curricular Links
• Working at will be able to explain what causes English UAE Social Art
Studies /
sounds formation and how sounds can be Mathematics Moral
Education /
Computing
louder. Science MSC Well-being
Humanities GCS Values
• Working above will be able to identify the
difference between amplitude, frequency, and Key Vocabulary
Intensity
wavelength. Pitch
Amplitude
• Working above + will be able to investigate how Frequency
Hertz
changes in amplitude and frequency affect the
perception of sound.
GCS Values: Kindness / Honesty / Integrity / Respect
LO: To understand how are different sounds made.
How sounds are made
• The vibration of the air molecules around the hands shake the molecules next to them and so on,
until the air molecules in the ear are vibrating.
• Like light, sound travels through the air in waves.
• Sound is made by air molecules vibrating.
• When you clap your hands, the air around your hands shakes. This is the air molecules vibrating.
Have you ever felt a speaker when the sound is on?
It vibrates.
GCS Values: Kindness / Honesty / Integrity / Respect
LO: To understand how are different sounds made.
How sounds are made
Sound travels as vibrations (forward and backward
movement) between air particles.
The Vibrations
object reach our
vibrates ears
This makes air particles vibrate so the
vibrations are passed through the air
GCS Values: Kindness / Honesty / Integrity / Respect
LO: To understand how are different sounds made.
Pitch and frequency of sound
• The pitch of a sound is our ear’s response to the frequency of
sound.
• The pitch of sound is determined by the frequency of vibration of
the sound waves that produce them.
• Frequency is the measure of ‘how fast the vibrations’ are.
• Frequency is measured in Hertz (HZ).
Number of waves per second is called frequency.
Higher frequency = faster vibrations = higher pitch.
GCS Values: Kindness / Honesty / Integrity / Respect
LO: To understand how are different sounds made.
AFL Progress check
Measuring Sound Frequency
Your phone is set to ‘vibration’ mode. It vibrates 120 times in a
minute. What will be the frequency of the sound produced by your
phone?
2 Hz
120 / 60 = 2 Hz
we will divide it by 60 as there are 60 sec in one min.
GCS Values: Kindness / Honesty / Integrity / Respect
LO: To understand how are different sounds made.
Amplitude
• Sound is formed as waves. Just like any other wave, a sound wave can be big or small.
• The distance between to the 2 waves is called a Wavelength.
• The size of the vibration (wave) or the wave height is called an AMPLITUDE.
GCS Values: Kindness / Honesty / Integrity / Respect
LO: To understand how are different sounds made.
AFL Progress check
How changes in amplitude and A lower frequency sound is
frequency affect the perception of perceived as a lower note or
sound? pitch.
A higher amplitude sound wave
is a louder sound.
GCS Values: Kindness / Honesty / Integrity / Respect
LO: To understand how are different sounds made.
Pitch vs Loudness
GCS Values: Kindness / Honesty / Integrity / Respect
LO: To understand how are different sounds made.
To make sound an object must vibrate.
For example:
• A guitar string
• Our vocal cords
• Ridges on a male grasshopper’s hind legs
GCS Values: Kindness / Honesty / Integrity / Respect
LO: To understand how are different sounds made.
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GCS Values: Kindness / Honesty / Integrity / Respect
LO: To understand how are different sounds made.
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GCS Values: Kindness / Honesty / Integrity / Respect
LO: To understand how are different sounds made.
Self-Assessment
We are now going to reflect on our learning and think about
how well we have understood today’s L.O.
I tried my best to achieve the LO but I would like some more help with this.
I was able to answer some questions independently and I am becoming more confident.
I was able to answer all questions confidently and independently. I think I have achieved
the LO today.
GCS Values: Kindness / Honesty / Integrity / Respect
LO: To understand how are different sounds made.
GCS Values: Kindness / Honesty / Integrity / Respect
LO: To understand how are different sounds made.
Exam Style question
1. Analyze How is the Sound waves leave a source with a certain amount of
amplitude of a sound wave related energy and, therefore, a certain amplitude. Loudness is
to energy? how you perceive the energy of a sound wave. A wave
with a greater amplitude will produce a louder sound
and will have higher energy.
2. Which wave will produce louder
sound?
Wave D below has a larger amplitude than wave E. This
means wave D shows a LOUDER
sound than wave E
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