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    This document provides instructions for an activity where visitors can observe sound waves using tuning forks and water. It also guides them in making a shaker to understand how different materials produce different sounds. Educators first demonstrate how sound waves cause ripples in water by striking a tuning fork near a cup of water. Visitors then play a matching game with shakers containing different noise-making items. They can also build their own shaker by sealing materials like beads inside a toilet paper tube. For older visitors, educators ask guided inquiry questions about how changing the shaker's contents or length affects the sound produced.

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    This document provides instructions for an activity where visitors can observe sound waves using tuning forks and water. It also guides them in making a shaker to understand how different materials produce different sounds. Educators first demonstrate how sound waves cause ripples in water by striking a tuning fork near a cup of water. Visitors then play a matching game with shakers containing different noise-making items. They can also build their own shaker by sealing materials like beads inside a toilet paper tube. For older visitors, educators ask guided inquiry questions about how changing the shaker's contents or length affects the sound produced.

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    This document provides instructions for an activity where visitors can observe sound waves using tuning forks and water. It also guides them in making a shaker to understand how different materials produce different sounds. Educators first demonstrate how sound waves cause ripples in water by striking a tuning fork near a cup of water. Visitors then play a matching game with shakers containing different noise-making items. They can also build their own shaker by sealing materials like beads inside a toilet paper tube. For older visitors, educators ask guided inquiry questions about how changing the shaker's contents or length affects the sound produced.

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    Sound Waves

    Objective
    Educators help visitors observe how sound waves travel through water (and thus travel through air),
    and then guide them in making a shaker.

    What you need:

    To observe ​sound waves​: To build a shaker:


    ● Tuning fork(s) ● Toilet paper tubes
    ● Clear cups of water ● Stapler/tape
    ● Food coloring (place a couple drops in ● Beads, paper clips, beans, etc. (noise
    the water before starting the activity) makers)
    ● Mystery Sound Game ● Stickers, markers, etc. to decorate

    For a younger audience:

    To begin with:
    1. Let the visitor strike the tuning fork against the palm of their hand, and listen to the sound.

    2. Strike the tuning fork again, and then touch the surface of the water with the prongs. What’s
    happening to the surface of the water?

    3. Let the visitors play the sound matching game. Visitors will shake the tins, and try to guess
    which sounds are matching. (The tins are color-coded on the bottom.)

    To build a shaker:
    1. Have the child (with a parent’s assistance) seal one end of the toilet paper tube with staples
    or tape.

    2. Pour in the noise makers (they shouldn’t need much).

    3. Seal the other end.

    4. Let them decorate!

    Going Further – Guided Inquiry


    If visitors are interested, or are older, educators can also guide them through an inquiry-based
    activity by posing questions and helping visitors investigate those questions.

    For shakers: Science Information:


    What you need:
    ● Additional noise-making supplies, like ● Sound is produced by waves. You can
    beans, pasta, bottle caps see this with the tuning fork and water.
    ● Tubes of different lengths ● We hear different notes and pitches
    because sound waves are different
    Guided Inquiry Questions: lengths. A tuning fork with a low note
    ● How would different objects inside the has a longer wave, while a tuning fork
    shaker affect the sound? with a high note has a short wave.
    ● Do you think if you changed the length ● Different objects will have different
    of your shaker, would it change the wave-lengths, which is why different
    sound? materials sound different.

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