Group 1 ACTIVITY SHEET

Animals’ sound

Procedure:
1. You will imitate the sound of the following animals: snake, bird, cow and lion.
2. Answer the following questions: (Read the details about characteristics of sounds
on the info card given to your group.)
3. Describe the sound of snake. Is it soft or loud? What characteristics of sound
was presented by the snake?
4. How will you describe the sound of the cow? Does it have low or high pitch?
What characteristics of sound does the cow presented?
5. What is the characteristic of a lion’s roar in terms of amplitude? Is it high or low?
Describe the sound of the dog as to its loudness.
6. In terms of frequency, how can you describe the sound of the bird? Does it have
high or low pitch sound?
7. What are the different characteristics of sound?

Group 2 ACTIVITY SHEET

Let’s hear it!
Procedure:
1. Listen to each sound that will be given to you by your teacher.
Sound A: sound of thunder and sound of rain
Sound B: sound of whistle and sound of cow
Sound C: sound of piano and sound of guitar
2. Describe each sound that you will hear and answer the following questions: (You
will be provided info card)
3. What characteristic of sound is being illustrated in sound set A?
4. Hearing sound set B, what characteristic of sound do you think is being
demonstrated?
5. Set C sound has what characteristic of sound?
6. What are the different characteristics of sound?
 Group 3 ACTIVITY SHEET
Procedure:
Complete the details on the table. Answer the questions that follow.
Characteristics of sound Description Related to
It refers to the highness or
lowness of sound.
Amplitude; the higher the
amplitude, the louder the
sound

waveform

Guide Questions:
1. How is wavelength related to frequency? How is pitch and frequency related?
2. How is loudness/intensity related to amplitude?
3. How can you distinguish sound from one another?
4. What are the characteristics of sound?
 Group 4 ACTIVITY SHEET
Concept Mapping

Procedure:
Complete the concept map. Sound
wave

Can be characterized by: Related to or can be described as:

Guide questions:
1. What characteristic of sound is related to frequency? Describe that characteristic.
2. How can you relate amplitude and loudness or intensity?
3. What characteristic of sound distinguish one from another?
 INFO CARD

The sound that we hear around us is the type of energy made by the vibration that travels
through the air or any other medium and can be heard when it reaches a person’s ear.  So,
basically sound helps us to communicate with the other person. For example, we can hear
the musical instruments like tabla, flute, a guitar due to vibration. The characteristics of
sound are as follows:

Pitch: 

The way our brain interprets the frequency of a sound is called its pitch. The faster a
body vibrates, the greater is the frequency of sound it generates. The greater the
frequency of a sound, the greater is its pitch. Thus, the faster the body vibrates, the
greater the pitch of the sound it generates. 

Loudness

The loudness is a sensation of how strong a sound wave is at a place. It is always a relative
term and is a dimensionless quantity. The loudness depends on the amplitude of the
vibration. It will be louder when the amplitude is high. Suppose when we pluck a string of
the sitar it starts vibrating with low amplitude and if we apply more energy by plucking more
strongly, the string will vibrate with the greater amplitude and produce a loud sound. As the
amplitude of vibration increases, sound also increases.

Quality or Timbre: 
The quality or timbre of a sound is a characteristic of sound which is used to distinguish
a sound from another which have the same pitch and loudness. Timbre is a quality of
musical tone to distinguish between two sounds when they are of the same frequency.
Every sound we hear depends on its source. Sound timbre is known as the
characteristic waveform of sound that depends on the material from which it produces.
In physics, the sound characterises as pitch, frequency, loudness, and timbre. Timbre is
one of the properties of a sound wave that distinguishes the characteristics of a note.