Do
you Hear, What I Hear?
By
Susan Hunt
Introduction/Task/Process/Conclusion
In
this web quest you will investigate a few of the many web sites there are about
sound.
Process
– When you are done exploring a
website click the BACK
button to get back to this page.
1.
Visit Scholastic’s web page to play a game about sound.
Click
here….
2.
This is a really cool website where you can hear different sounds of
animals and automotives from different countries.
Click
Here…
3. Explore the science of music with us, through these online exhibits, movies, and questions. Along the way, you can compose, mix, dance, drum, experiment, and above all…listen. Click Here...
4. Watch a movie about sound and check out the experiments and activities with Bob, the ex-lab rat. Click Here...
5.
On this web site, you can play a piano. Click
Here…
6. Play your favorite tune! Create your own melody! The squirrels will love your music!! You are the Big Scale Musician! Click Here...
7. Visit the friends at Hoppy Hill and find out whose sound you like the best. Click Here...
8. Explore how sound waves and pitch and volume work at the I Know That Science Lab. Click Here...
9. Shhhh.... listen closely and see if you can identify the sounds. Click Here...
10.
Go to Arthur Elementary School’s web page, which gives many different
sound resources. Click
Here….
11. On this web site, it teaches you about sound waves and wavelengths. Click Here…
12. Discover how slight changes in the design of an instrument can affect how it sounds in Changing Sound. Take the sound quiz when you have finished. Click Here...
13. How good are your listening skills? Find out by playing each of the Listening Memory Games. Click Here...
14. Put some Sound Puzzles together as you listen to some sonic puzzle pieces and rearrange them so they make sense when played in order. Click Here...
15. Here's a real test to your listening skills. Close your eyes and listen to tell where the paddle is as you play this all-listening version of the classic game Pong called Audio Pong. Click Here...
16. Can you distinguish between these different birdcalls? Try listening to tell the difference between songs and alarm calls of different species in Do These Birds Sound Alarmed? Click Here...
17. How do different sounds combine to make the unique audio environments of specific places? Soundscape Constructor will allow you to build the soundscapes of a beach and a train station. Click Here...
Conclusion
I
hope you had a good time investigating sound and how it works. If time remains, please investigate
sound at Ask
Jeeves or Encarta
On-line.
