Free Explore Audio Activeness Kit

This yesteryear fall, I tweeted most tending my first always scientific discipline teaching workshop alongside OERB.  Andrew Morrison (a physics professor I interact alongside on Twitter) replied to my tweet to inquire if I knew most a costless kit for teaching audio that was offered yesteryear the Acoustical Society of America.  I didn't know most it, too hence I idea y'all mightiness non know most it either.  For all my math instructor readers, delight move yesteryear this postal service on to whatsoever scientific discipline teachers or simple teachers y'all mightiness know that learn sound/acoustics every bit constituent of their curriculum!    

I visited the Acoustical Society of America's website to cheque out the opportunity.  If y'all learn acoustics/sound every bit a topic inwards your class, here's the link to asking your ain costless activeness kit.  

The costless activeness kits were out of stock at the fourth dimension of my request, exactly inside a span of months, a giant box sum of acoustics goodies were sitting on my desk.  

See how overnice everything was packaged?  Now that I've used the audio too music lessons alongside my physical scientific discipline students, my kit doesn't await quite too hence neat.  

So, what comes inwards the kit?

Straws.  These are for making straw instruments.  Your instructor neighbors volition LOVE y'all for this.

Here's my finished straw trombone.  My students actually liked making these.  They could non position them down!  

Pipe Cleaners

The purpose of these pipage cleaners is to shape a model of the pilus cells that be on on our cochlea.  The primary gist is that 1 time these pilus cells are damaged they can't live fixed.

Take a await at the pipage cleaners that my students tried to "fix."

Digital Sound Meter

I haven't had a adventure to occupation this alongside my students yet.  We're even too hence inwards the course of teaching of working through all of the audio lessons.

My married adult man too I did direct keep it out of the box over Christmas Break to experiment alongside it too encounter how it worked.

Cup Instrument

Tuning Forks

My students LOVED playing alongside the tuning forks.  I direct keep to acknowledge that listening to an entire classroom of students play alongside tuning forks volition effect inwards a headache.  It was worth it, though. 

Ping Pong Balls (Attached to String)

These ping pong balls are meant to live dangled nigh the tuning forks to assistance inwards making observations.

  

Laminated Posters

Hair Cell

Healthy Hair Bundle

Damaged Hair Bundle

 

Inner Ear Diagram

These posters were super helpful for explaining to my students both how the ear functions too why it is of import to protect our hearing.  

According to the Explore Sound website, it looks similar they've slightly modified the contents of their costless activeness kits since I received mine.  They right away include a small, plastic slinky too xxx mechanical pencils! 

Image Source: http://exploresound.org/teacher-activity-kit/ 

I would similar to country a HUGE cheers to the Acoustical Society of America for providing such an awesome laid of supplies too curriculum to learn my students most acoustics.  All of the materials come upward alongside pre-written lesson plans, quizzes, worksheets, too PPT presentations.  As a math teacher, I normally similar to exercise my ain lessons.  But, every bit a scientific discipline teacher, I'm even too hence learning most acoustics myself.  It was super-helpful to direct keep lessons written yesteryear professionals who know their stuff!  My students too I direct keep genuinely enjoyed every lesson too hence far!  

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