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		LEVEL II
	THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES CAN BE DONE IN CENTERS OR IN STATIONS THAT THE CLASS ROTATES THROUGH. Listen To Sounds Students close their eyes and get very quiet. They listen to all the sounds they can hear in a minute. They then record these sounds. (Sometimes you can find a recording of sounds for the students to listen too.) Sound is Vibration Students hold a ruler tightly on their desk and pluck the other end of the ruler lightly and listen to the sound it makes. Students put a craft stick in their teeth and ;pluck gently and feel and hear the sound. (Throw away the craft stick.) Strike a tuning fork and observe and listen to it. Put it in water after you strike it. Put a ping pong ball on a string and touch the tuning fork to it. Touch the desk with the tuning fork after you stick it. Make a mini-ukulele. Wrap a rubber band around a ruler. Push a pencil under the rubber band. Pluck the rubber band. Move the pencil and try again. How does the sound change? Debriefing Discuss all of the answers the students came up with in their activities. Have them write reflections about their feelings and findings in their Lab notebooks or journals. You could have them create a book about sounds. Back to Lesson Ideas