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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Changing Sounds

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students identify how the pitch and the loudness of an instrument can be altered by examining the sounds made by three instruments.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Move Heat Light Sound

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this identifying the energy used by objects worksheet, students observe pictures of household items and write the words move, heat, light, or sound to tell their energy source. Students write 12 answers.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Wave Practice Problems

For Students 9th - 12th
Physics scholars list the properties of waves and calculate the speed, wavelength, and frequency of waves. The worksheet is concise, but covers a variety of wave computational skills. The formatting is neat, but it does have small...
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Lesson Plan
Acoustical Society of America

Musical Instruments: Part II

For Teachers 6th - 12th
String together how instruments produce sound. Using pieces of string, learners find ways to create sound. They investigate changes to the string and the effect of adding a cup. Finally, pupils experiment by changing the way to create...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Connected Text, Rereading Decodable Text

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Using a familiar decodable text, pairs take turns reading sentences. The partner who isn't reading follows along silently, helping if needed. They alternate sentences until the entire book is finished and then reverse to read the other...
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Lesson Plan
Acoustical Society of America

Tuning Fork Discovery

For Teachers 6th - 12th
No need for a knife when a fork will do! Groups of pupils first read about the science of sound, and then experiment with tuning forks. Teams gather information about the pitch and length of their forks and compare them to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Beginning and Ending Consonants

For Teachers K - 1st
Young readers explore consonant sounds. In this beginning phonics activity, learners fill in a beginning/middle/end vertical column chart with the sounds they hear in the pictured object. Practice spelling CVC words.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Phonics: Decode and Write Words

For Teachers 1st
Sounding out individual phonemes and blending them to make a word is usually one of the first tasks mastered when learning to read. Make master decoders out of your learners, they sound out a series of simple two and three-letter cvc...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Decode and Write Words with More Than One Syllable

For Teachers K - 1st
Practice sounding out multi-syllable words with this scaffolded lesson. Learners decode words by segmenting them into phonemes and combining the sounds. Your lines are in bold here, but you can easily use this simply as an outline...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Indiana Igloo

For Teachers K - 1st
Your young charges practice identifying the /i/ sound in this lesson. The class looks at words on cards and identifies which word has the target sound. They continue their practice using Elkonin letterboxes to spell words with the /i/...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

THE BLENDING SLIDE

For Teachers K - 1st
Your beginning readers will practice blending sounds with this hands-on activity! Each learner gets their own paper slide, cards with consonants, and cards with vowels. Then, after practicing as a class, they can blend consonant and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Tug Says Uhh!

For Teachers K - 1st
Kindergarteners and first graders discover the /u/ sound! After practicing making the sound with the funny tongue twister, youngsters use their Elkonin letterboxes to divide a set of words into their phonemes. Then pairs read Bud...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Beginning Sounds

For Teachers K
Kindergarteners recognize words that begin with the same sound. For this word study lesson, they identify initial consonant sounds in words written on the board and write another word with the same beginning sound. Also, there is a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Animals

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Designed for a third grade Spanish class, this mini-instructional activity offers a look at animals and the sounds they make. First, the teacher will review the different sounds that animals make. Then, the whole class will read Miau and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reading Connected Text Fluency (Passage)

For Teachers K - 1st
Practice makes perfect when it comes to reading fluency! Walk your emerging readers through a familiar passage, slowly pointing to each word to keep every learner with you. While looking at a projected passage, scholars read one word at...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Los Animales Hacen

For Students 1st - 2nd
What noise does a dog make? What about a chicken? Young Spanish language learners match the animal in the left column with the sound it makes (listed in the right column). Then, after they match the two, have them say the sentence listed...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Redirecting Ripples

For Students 3rd
For this sound wave worksheet, 3rd graders record what occurs when they make a stethoscope out of a hose and funnel. They listen to a classmate's heart and let the student listen to theirs.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Animal Challenge 4

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this sound energy worksheet, students predict what happens when bats bounce sounds off of walls to communicate. Students complete 2 questions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Wonderful Waves

For Students 4th - 6th
In this science worksheet, students perform an investigation about sound waves and vibration. Students use a pan of water and toothpicks to make and observe ripples. Students answer 4 essay questions about their observations.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Great Gongs

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this sound worksheet, students use materials such as string, cups, paper clips and more to observe the vibrations made. Students then record their results.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Mysterious Magic

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this salt moving worksheet, students move salt with rubber bands, plastic, cans, and more, but don't touch it. Students follow 5 directions and answer 2 questions, and relate this to sound waves.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Easy Reading Worksheet- Short a Sound

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this easy reading worksheet, students read a list of short a words and a story that includes the words. They circle the words cat, mad, hat, and sad before answering three questions about the story.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Easy Reading Worksheet- Short e Sound Worksheet

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this literacy activity, students read a list of short -e words before reading a short paragraph that contains the words. They circle the words bed, get, pet, let, and left, and answer three short answer questions about the story.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Easy Reading Worksheet- Short i Sound

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this short -i reading worksheet, students read a list of short -i words before reading a paragraph that contains the words. They circle the words sit, will, with, him, and hill in the paragraph. They answer three questions based on...