Socratic Seminar by Thomas Duffy
   
     
   
       
 

Subject Area: Science

Grade Level: 9-12

Overview: In this lesson students learn about sound, starting with a class discussion on the nature of sound. Then doing web research on handmade musical instruments. Finsihing the lesson with making their own musical instrument and deciding if it can make music or noise.

Standards:

Standard 4: Understands the different forms and sources of energy and how they change. This unit is on one energy form-sound.
Standard 10: Knows how observed patterns and relationships are used to explain scientific phenomena.

 

"Teacher Double Feature"
A competitive grant opportunity provided through a partnership between the Contra Costa County Office of Education and Pacific Bell.

 
   
 
   
 


Contra Costa County Office of Education
77 Santa Barbara Rd.
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523

May 2002