Funnel ears science experiment template

Science experiment:

Question: What will happen to the sound if I change the shape of a piece of paper? (e.g. from a flat shape to a funnel shape)

Links to research about Sound:

http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/robotzoo/guide/bats_and_echoes.html

http://www.ask.com/question/how-do-animals-hear

Hypothesis: (What do you think will happen?) e.g. I think that….

I predict that when you make a funnel shape, it will be louder than the flat shape.

Materials needed:

paper and sellotape and tissue

Experiment (procedure):

Step 1 - First hold a flat piece of paper against your ear. Block your other ear with your hand. Get your partner to speak to you. What is the sound like? Can you hear clearly?

Step 2 - Next, roll the piece of paper into a funnel shape. Put the funnel against your ear. Face the funnel towards your partner and listen to them speak. What does it sound like? Can you hear clearly?

Step 3 - Next, face the funnel to the side while your partner speaks to you. Does it make a difference to the sound that you can hear?

Step 4 - Put some cotton balls or tissue paper into the funnel to block one end. Does it make a difference to the sound you hear?

Step 5 - Next, roll the piece of paper up and l

Data (What happened?)

	Shape/object/materials	Results:
1	flat piece of paper	It didn’t make a difference
2	funnel facing to the front	It was loud and clear
3	funnel facing to the side	It wasn’t clear it wasn’t loud it just sounded blurry
4	cotton ball blocking funnel	It sounded like someone speaking while my ears were blocked
5	rolled up piece of paper (facing to the front)	It was loud, and my ears were sore
6	rolled up piece of paper (facing to the side)	I couldn’t hear my partners voice, I just heard everyone in the background.

Observations:

I just realized that when you roll up a paper and someone talks through it it will sound really and it will hurt your ears .

Conclusion:

The flat paper will not be loud. But then when you roll it up, it will sound really loud. So I guess that my prediction was wrong. The funnel paper wasn’t loud, it was the rolled up paper.

Funnel ears science experiment template

Science experiment:

Question: What will happen to the sound if I change the shape of a piece of paper? (e.g. from a flat shape to a funnel shape)

Links to research about Sound:

http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/robotzoo/guide/bats_and_echoes.html

http://www.ask.com/question/how-do-animals-hear

Hypothesis: (What do you think will happen?) e.g. I think that….

I predict that when you make a funnel shape, it will be louder than the flat shape.

Materials needed:

paper and sellotape and tissue

Experiment (procedure):

Step 1 - First hold a flat piece of paper against your ear. Block your other ear with your hand. Get your partner to speak to you. What is the sound like? Can you hear clearly?

Step 2 - Next, roll the piece of paper into a funnel shape. Put the funnel against your ear. Face the funnel towards your partner and listen to them speak. What does it sound like? Can you hear clearly?

Step 3 - Next, face the funnel to the side while your partner speaks to you. Does it make a difference to the sound that you can hear?

Step 4 - Put some cotton balls or tissue paper into the funnel to block one end. Does it make a difference to the sound you hear?

Step 5 - Next, roll the piece of paper up and l

Data (What happened?)

	Shape/object/materials	Results:
1	flat piece of paper	It didn’t make a difference
2	funnel facing to the front	It was loud and clear
3	funnel facing to the side	It wasn’t clear it wasn’t loud it just sounded blurry
4	cotton ball blocking funnel	It sounded like someone speaking while my ears were blocked
5	rolled up piece of paper (facing to the front)	It was loud, and my ears were sore
6	rolled up piece of paper (facing to the side)	I couldn’t hear my partners voice, I just heard everyone in the background.

Observations:

I just realized that when you roll up a paper and someone talks through it it will sound really and it will hurt your ears .

Conclusion:

The flat paper will not be loud. But then when you roll it up, it will sound really loud. So I guess that my prediction was wrong. The funnel paper wasn’t loud, it was the rolled up paper.

Where's the sound (summarise)

When we are in earth and you hear a space ship blow up, you hear a lot of noise. But if you are in space and you hear a space ship blow up you'll hear completely nothing.

A sound is a type of energy. An object can move by the sound waves when it vibrates.

When you put a rubber ban on two fingers (index and middle). You flick one side and it will vibrate. That is how the sound waves vibrate through the air.

Sound waves can travel through anything. Liquids, gasses and under water. Sound waves can even travel through a brick wall.

Space and vacuum are the same. Basically space is like a vacuum, they both have no matter. So when a ship blows up in space you shouldn't hear anything because there is no matter.

Here is what we have summarised: Where is Sound

Sound

Sound:

Types & Impact:

There are many types of music in the world, like Jazz, Hip Hop, Rap, 70’s and 80’s and many many more. Music can sometimes help you think, relax and even make you sleep. I know music is fun and groovy, but sometimes it can also be very dangerous. Because very loud music can affect your eardrums. If your eardrums are damaged you’ll permanently lose your hearing. So make sure that your music is not too loud before your eardrums break.

Hippocampus:

Have you heard of a word called hippocampus? A hippocampus is the part of your brain that brings lots and lots of memories from the past. There are many more different types of music than in the past. There is Hip Hop, Rap and R&B. When adults listen to old songs from the past like 80’s and 70’s, Jazz, Blues and Classical the hippocampus will help bring some of  your memories back.

Singers and Instruments:

We have lots and lots of singers in the world and from different countries. There is Beyonce, Bruno Mars, Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Jason Derulo and lots more. Their songs is what we listen to in my age. Lots of people like to play instruments. Such as guitar, piano, drums, bass and heaps more. The guitar, when the string vibrates it makes sound waves. They are all enjoyable.

Emotions:

Some songs can get you into mixed emotions. Like sad songs, it can make you cry and feel really emotional. Slow songs can make you fall asleep right on the spot. Your eyes will slowly close by the slow tune of the song. Hip Hop songs will obviously make you dance, and you’ll have lots of fun.

Sound:

The sound waves vibrates into the air then it goes into your inner ear, which goes to your eardrums that has tiny little part of hair. A cochlear nerve takes the sound waves from the inner ear to the brain. For an example: When someone is playing music on a speaker and you hear it. The sound wave vibrates into your inner ear and thats when the cochlear nerve carries the sound waves to your brain.

Science Experiment

Science experiment:

Question: What will happen to the sound if I cut the straw shorter and blow through it?

Links to research about Sound:

e.g.

http://condor.admin.ccny.cuny.edu/~ms6785/page2.html

www.thefreedictionary.com/sound

Hypothesis: (What do you think will happen?) e.g. I think that….

I predict that the straw will go in a high pitched sound when we cut it.

Materials needed:

Scissors and Straw

Experiment (procedure):

e.g. Step 1 - Crease the straw  2-3m long on one end

Step 2 - Then using the scissors again cut the end of the straw into triangle 1.5 metres long.

Step 3 -  Put your lips just over the cut end of the straw (triangle part)

Step 4 - Squash the straw softly with your lips, blow through it

Step 5 - Cut the straw shorter and see what it will sound like

Data (What happened?)

15cm Long Straw -	It just made a low squeaky sound
10cm Long Straw -	The sound went a little higher
5cm Long Straw -	The sound went really high pitched

Observations:

When the straw was 15 cm long, it just went into a squeaky low sound. But I have just discovered that every time you cut the straw shorter the sound goes higher and higher.

Conclusion:

When you cut the straw it goes into a high pitch. So my prediction and my hypothesis was correct. It did go into a high pitched sound.

What can I hear?

Sound: What can I hear?

Team 5’s Inquiry focus this term is about Physics and the Science of ‘Sound’.

This week you are going to write an explanation about the different types of sounds that you can hear in your environment.

Think about the sounds that surround you - at home, at school, outside.

What types of sounds can you hear? Where do they come from? Use the table to help you organise your ideas:

	Home	School	Outside	Other
What types of sounds can you hear?	Television, phone ringing, shower running	people tapping, people tapping, typing	people laughing, kids crying, people talking	busy traffic, cars beeping,
Which sounds do you like listening to? Why?	Dog barking, because I know that my dog is here.	Typing, I like when people type because its just sound so cool.	People talking and laughing because I just want everyone to be happy.	Cars driving past, because I don’t want everything to be quite.
Why sounds are annoying? Why?	Television annoys me when I’m trying to sleep.	When I’m trying to read a book, it’s so annoying when people shout inside class while I’m trying to read a book/or my writing.	People fighting that annoys me because I’m scared that something might happen.	It is so annoying a door closes slowly and all you hear is door making ugly noises.

Finally, think about what your world would be like if you didn’t have sound. What would it be like if you couldn’t hear a single thing, or if you had to live in absolute silence? What do you think it would be like?

Sound is very important. That’s what our ears are used for. Without sound everyone will be bored, living in completely silence. Sound is fun. There are lots of sounds around the world, like music, television and people talking. Sounds can also be annoying. Sometimes you just want silence. But most of the time everyone wants to hear sounds.

I love hearing sound because of music. Music makes me feel relaxed. Everyone loves to hear music. I hear it everywhere, on the radio, television, phones, ipads and on all the technical stuff. The sounds I hear at home are the television, phone ringing, shower running etc.

If we lived in a world with no sound but only silence, it would be pretty creepy. Because with no sound in the world, we would be living in silence. Now that’s a world I don’t want to live in. Living in silence will definitely be awkward. We might as well be deaf people, because that’s a world that deaf people experience. They can’t hear anything, only silence.

I would really hate to live in a world with no sound. Imagine no music and no singers. I love listening to music. No music means no Beyonce, no Bruno Mars and all the other great singers. Would you want to live in that kind of world?? Well my answer is definitely no! Also if we lived in a world with no sound it can be very dangerous. But luckily we live in a world of sound.

Immersion Assembly

Today is the first day of Term 2. We had an Immersion Assembly before we started learning, we do this every first day of the term. Do you know why? So everyone in the school can know what the theme is for the term. But every team learns different subjects. The first team to perform was Team 1. This year they are going to be learning about how zookeepers work. The questions are for there team is: How do they (zoo keepers) keep the animals safe from us people, and how do they keep us people safe from animals. Hhhhmmm?? I think we are going to leave that for team 1 because they are going to learn more at the zoo tomorrow!

Next up was Team 2. Their teachers have decided that they are going to be learning about flight, airplanes, thrust, drag and gravity. How does an plane/air balloon fly? What is gravity? What does gravity do?  Soon those questions are going to be answered by team 2. Afterwards it was time for team 3. They are going to be learning about light/colour. How it reflects to other colours. That is going to be very interesting and really confusing. But team 3 will get it at the end.

The next item was team 4. Team 4 is going to be learning about what floats on water and what sinks. I have learnt a new word that was on the video that we watched. The word is “Buoyancy”. It is something to float on water or other fluids.

And last item was Team 5, which is us. We are going to be learning about “Sounds”. How does sound travel? How can we hear it? What is sound? What is science behind sound? Do you know? Because I don’t, but I’m sure that we team 5 is going to know all the answers to those questions. And thats it! So basically this term we are going to be learning about Science.