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Science
Quarter 3 - Module 6:
How Sound Travel
in Different Materials?

Department of Education Republic of the Philippines

Science – Grade 4
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Quarter 3 - Module 6: How Sound Travel in Different Materials
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Science
Quarter 3 - Module 6:
How Sound Travel
in Different Materials

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What This Module is About
Sound makes the world alive and keeps us moving.
There are different sounds produced by many things in many
ways. There are sounds that are too slow or too fast to be heard by
man. There are sounds that can make us happy. There are also sound
that annoy us.
Sound fills our day with excitement and meaning. If you are living
in rural areas, you always hear the chicken crows every. If you want to
relax, you listen to a music, radio programs, watch TV. Sound of your
heartbeat is the last thing you hear at night as you fall asleep.
In the next lesson, you will do the activities to help you understand
how sounds are produced and how sound travels in solid, liquid, and
air.

Notes to the Teacher

Dear Teacher,
This is a self-paced module with various
activities to be done at home by the learners.
Clear and careful instructions must be given
to the learners to ensure safety and avoid
misconceptions in performing the activities.

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 What I Need to Know

Sound is a form of energy just like light. Sound is important to all

living things. It always travels through a medium, such as air, water, or
solid.
In the next lesson, you will do activities to help you understand
how sounds are produced and how sound travels in solid, liquid and air.

Learning Objectives
At the end of this module, you will be able to:
1. Describe how sound is produced?
2. Describe how sound travels in solid, liquid and air.

Time duration: 4 days

How to Learn from this Module

For you to achieve the objectives cited above, you are to do the
following:
• Take your time reading the lessons carefully.

• Follow the directions and/or instructions in the activities and

exercises diligently.

• Answer all the given tests and exercises.

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 What I Know

Test A
Directions: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and write FALSE if
the statement is wrong.
______ 1. Sound travels the fastest in air.
______ 2. Sound travels in a straight path.
______ 3. Hitting an object harder or softer changes the pitch.
______ 4. The faster is the vibration of an object, the louder is the
sound.
______ 5. Sound travels the slowest in wood compared to in water.

Test B
Direction: Answer each question. Write only the letter of your chosen
answer.
1. When the sound travels through solids, the vibration of the
particles occurs ______?
A. fast C. moderately
B. irregularly D. slow
2. How does sound travel through air?
A. fast in random manner C. very fast
B. in jumping motion D. very slow
3. In which medium can a sound wave travel fastest?
A. gases C. solids
B. liquids D. all of these
4. What affects the speed of sound as it travels?
A. Loudness of the sound
B. Person receiving it
C. The nature of material
D. The origin of the sound

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 5. Which of the following statements about sound is correct?
A. Sound cannot travel through air.
B. Sound travels faster in solids than in air.
C. Sound travels faster in air than in liquids.
D. The travel of a sound is not affected by a medium.

Lesson
How Sound is Produced?
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Have you wondered how sounds are produced?
Sound is important to all living things. Some animals produce
sounds as a form of communicating, while others make sounds as a
signal for incoming danger.
Can you imagine your life without a sound? In this lesson, you will
learn more about how sounds are produced.

What’s In

Direction: Read each statements well and write only the letter of your
chosen answer.
1. How does the light travel? _____
A. curve line C. straight line
B. slant line D. zigzag line
2. How will you describe the size of the laser light? _____
A. average B. big C. narrow D. wide

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 3. Which of the following sentences is CORRECT?
A. Light travels faster in air than in water.
B. Light can pass through all types of materials.
C. The path of light follows a curved path,
D. Laser light can bend.
4. Laser light has a great deal of _____ energy.
A. chemical B. heat C. potential D. sound
5. Laser light can travel _____ distances and still focus on a small
area.
A. average B. long C. near D. short

What’s New

Materials:
Plastic ruler table
Direction:

1. Get a plastic ruler and press one end along the edge of the table
by holding it down firmly.
2. Push or press down the free end of the ruler then release it
suddenly. Observe what happens when you release the free end
of the ruler.

Figure 1. Plastic ruler on top of the table

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 3. Hold the ruler while it is still in motion. Observe what happens.
4. Repeat #2 and #3 for three times. Observe what happens.
5. Record all observations in your science notebook.

Guide Questions:
1. How do you describe the movement of the ruler when you
suddenly released it?

2. Did you hear a sound?

3. Did the sound coming from the moving ruler suddenly stop
when you held it? When you released it again

What is It?

Learning Circuit!
Objects make sounds by producing a back and forth
movement known as vibration. Vibration of an object makes the
particles of the object to move. Without vibration, there will be no
sound.
There are imaginary waves produced when an object
vibrates. We call these sound waves. A sound wave travels at
different speed through different media. As sound travels, a sound
wave is created in response to a vibration. The sound waves
produced by vibration only stops when the particles have no more
energy.

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 When a vibration is slow, slow moving waves are produced.
When the vibration is fast, fast moving waves are produced until
such time that the vibration stop.
The travel of sound is slow when the vibration is slow. It is
fast when the vibration is fast.
Sound travels in a straight line. However, sound waves
bends its path when something interferes with its path or when it
enters a different medium.

Guide Questions:

1. How is sound produced?

2. Why sound waves travel fastest in a solid medium?

What’s More

Directions: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and write FALSE if

the statement is wrong.
______ 1. Sliding a book on the table forward and backward produces
sound.
______ 2. Vibration produces sound.
______ 3. Sounds travels in a wave pattern.
______ 4. Sound travels in a straight path.
______ 5. When you pluck the string of a guitar, it vibrates and sound
is produced.

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 What I Have Learned

Brain Buster!
Direction: Fill in the blank with the correct word. Choose from the words
inside the box.

waves sound vibration

sound waves vibrates

Vibration is a back and forth movement of an object that makes it

to produce a _________. Without _________, there will be no sound.
(1) (2)
There are imaginary _________ produced when an object _________.
(3) (4)
We call these _________.
(5)

What I Can Do

Let’s apply it!

Direction: Below are illustrations of two types of sound waves. Which
wave shows a faster speed of sound? Explain your answer.

A. Slow vibration

B. Fast vibration

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 Lesson Sounds Travel in Different
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Sound is produced when something is hit or plucked so that it
begins to vibrate. A sound waves travels at different speed through
different media. Sound cannot travel in a vacuum.
In this lesson, you will learn more about how sounds travel in
different medium and in what medium does the sound travel faster.

What’s In

Guess!
Direction: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if it
wrong.
1. Without vibration, there will be no sound.
2. When you hit a wall with a stick, it does not vibrates butsound is
produced.
3. Longer waves produce slower sound.
4. The path of sound bends when there is obstruction.
5. Sound travels fast when the vibration is slow.

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 What’s New

Let’s do this!
Materials:
 Stick at least one ft. long
 Small pail filled with water
 Two pieces of medium sized stone
 A table or a chair preferably made of wood or metal
 Drum and drumsticks or any container that produces sound
when tapped with a stick

Directions:
1. Find a table or a chair. Gently tap the table or the chair with
your palm. What did you hear? Do this for at least five times
with different strengths of tapping. Try from gentle to a hard
tap. Observe the sound you produced with each tap.

2. Tap two medium-sized stones in a pail filled with water. Be

careful not to spill the water when you tap the stones. Observe
what happens when the stones hit each other. Can you hear a
sound? Do this for at least five times.

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 3. Do this in an open area and with a partner. Let your partner
stay at least 10 meters away from you. Strike a drum with
drumsticks (or any container like plastic gallon that produces
sound when tapped with a stick). Can both of you hear the
sound the drum produced? Strike the drum with different
strength. Try it from a gentle tap to a hard tap. Take note of the
sound that is produced.

Guide Questions:
1. Compare the sound produced when you tapped the table gently and
when you tapped the table hard.

2. Were you able to produce a sound when you struck/hit two stones
together underwater?

3. Did the sound coming from the drum reach the person away from it?

4. In which situation sound travel fastest?

A. when sound travels in solid (table/chair)
B. when sound travels in water (tapping stones under water),
C. when sound travels in air (listening the tapping of the drum 10
meters away)

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 What is It?

Learning Circuit !

Sound is a type of energy made by vibrations. When any object

vibrates, it causes movement of the air particles. These particles
bump to the particles close to them, causing them to vibrate.

Sound could be produced and has ability to travel through

solids, liquids and gases.
If the particles are very close to each other, sound wave
passes quickly. This is observed in solid materials. In most
liquids, the particles are not attracted as strongly to each other as
those in solid particles. Sound waves tend to move slowly and
bounce back slower than in a solid.
In a gas such as air, sound waves travel most slowly. The
particles of gas are not attracted to each other as strongly as the
particles in liquid, thus sound waves travel slowly.
Sound travels differently in different types of materials. Sound
travels fastest in solid, slower in liquid and slowest in air. Sound
cannot travel through vacuum.

Guide Questions:
1. Why are sound waves travel slowest in air?

2. Compare the degree of attraction among the particles in solids,

liquids and gas.

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 What’s More

Direction: Write only the letter of your chosen answer.

_____1. How does sound wave travel?
A. Through outer space C. Through sound sources
B. Through a medium D. Through solid only
_____2. Which is the common medium of sound?
A. air B. solid C. stone D. water
_____3. On which material does sound travel the slowest?
A. gas B. solid C. liquid D. water
_____4. On which medium can sound wave travel fastest?
A. gas B. liquid C. solid D. river
_____5. Which of the following statements about sound is correct?
A. Sound cannot travel through a solid.
B. Sound cannot travel through air.
C. Sound travels faster in air than in liquid.
D. Sound travels faster in solid than in water

What I Have Learned

Fill me up!
Directions: Fill-in the blanks with the correct word. Get your answers
from the box.

solids sound wave liquids slowly less

The particles in __________ are not attracted to each other as

(1)

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strongly as those in __________ particles. Sound waves tend to move
(2)
a little less quickly and bounce back __________ easily than in a solid.
(3)
__________ tend to travel more __________ in liquids than in most
(4) (5)
solids.

What I Can Do

Brain twisting!
Direction: Answer the question briefly.

What is the reason why you will hear easily the person nearest you
compared to a person far from you?

Post Assessment

Test A
Directions: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and write FALSE if
the statement is wrong.
______ 1. Sound travels the fastest in air.
______ 2. Sound travels in a straight path.
______ 3. Hitting an object harder or softer changes the pitch.

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______ 4. The faster is the vibration of an object, the louder is the
sound.
______ 5. Sound travels the slowest in wood compared to in water.

Test B
Direction: Answer each question. Write only the letter of your chosen
answer.
1. When the sound travels through solids, the vibration of the particles
occurs ______?
A. fast C. moderately
B. irregularly D. slow
2. How does sound travel through air?
A. fast in random manner C. very fast
B. in jumping motion D. very slow
3. In which medium can a sound wave travel fastest?
A. gases C. solids
B. liquids D. all of these
4. What affects the speed of sound as it travels?
A. Loudness of the sound
B. Person receiving it
C. The nature of material
D. The origin of the sound
5. Which of the following statements about sound is correct?
A. Sound cannot travel through air.
B. Sound travels faster in air than in liquids
C. Sound travels faster in solids than in air
D. The travel of a sound is not affected by a medium.

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 Additional Activities

Direction: Select the best answer for each statement below. Write
only the letter.

1. How do sound travel through solid?

A. fast in random manner
B. in jumping motion
C. very fast
D. very slow
2. How does sound travel?
A. a reach line C. packs
B. cycle D. waves
3. How do sound travel in liquid compared to air?
A. faster
B. in jumping motion
C. very slow in random manner
D. very slow
4. Why do we not hear sound in outer space?
A. it is so cold
B. there is no one out there
C. it is a vacuum or empty space
D. there are too many parts that are exploding
5. How do sounds reach our ears?
A. Sounds travel to our ears through imaginary waves caused
by vibrations.
B. Sounds travel to our ears through a series of beeps.
C. Sounds travel to our ears by bright light that flash.
D. Sounds travel to our ears through air.

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Answer Key

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Abutay, L. R., D.C. Bonao, E. B. Crucis, et al. (2015) Science –Grade

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