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Station 1: Musical Tubes - hold one end of the tube and swing the plastic
tube ina circle over your head
1. What happens to the pitch of the sound as you increase the speed of the orange
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2. Twirl the black tube over your head. How is the sound different from the orange one?
3. What do you think is vibrating to produce the sound?
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4. Why do you think the two tubes sound different?
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Boom Whackers - Hit the tubes on your rubber soled shoe or your leg and listen
to the sounds they make,
1. Do the tubes produce different sounds?
2, Rank them (by color) from highest to lowest pitch,
3, How do these work? What do you think is vibrating to produce the sound?
4, Write down the order of the tubes (by color) that you hit to play “Jingle Bells”,4, What medium is the sound traveling through now?
5. What is meant by a “medium”?
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6. Through which medium do you think sound travels faster: AIR, SOLIDS, or LIQUIDS? EXPLAIN.
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Station 5: Talking Cups - Grab the red tape with your thumb and
index finger. Run your thumbnail along the red tape and listen.
1, What causes the red tape to "talk"?
2, Now, use the tape attached to a cup. How is the sound different?
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3. What function does the cup have in making this work better?
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4. Does the tape produce irregular or regular vibrations? How does that affect the sound that's
produced?4. Think again, what is vibrating to make the sound? Do you still think it’s the answer you had for #1?
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5, Identify at least three musical instruments that use vibrating air columns to make sounds of
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Station 8: Tuning Fork + Water = ? - Strike the tuning fork with the rubber mallet
41, Place the tuning fork into the dish of water. What happens to the water? What happens to the
sound?
2. Strike the tuning fork with the rubber mallet and hold the piece of paper in the other hand. Bring the
tuning fork up to the piece of paper. What happens to the paper? to the sound?
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3, Explain how these simple demonstrations could be used to show that sound is a form of energy.
4, Please clean up this station before you leavel
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Station 9: Cardboard Box Guitar - Place a rubber band on the open box and
play the cardboard box guitar
1. What is oscillating to create the sound?
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