Science 6

Science – Grade 6
Quarter 3 – Self-Learning Module 8: Describing Sound Energy

First Edition, 2020

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 Science 6
Quarter 3
Self-Learning Module 8
Sound Energy
Introductory Message

For the facilitator:

Welcome to the Science 6 Self-Learning Module 8 on Describing Sound Energy!

This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by educators from
Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its Officer-In-Charge Schools Division
Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A. Agustin in partnership with the Local
Government of Pasig through its mayor, Honorable Victor Ma. Regis “Vico” N. Sotto.
The writers utilized the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum using the Most
Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) while overcoming their personal, social,
and economic constraints in schooling.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners into guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st century skills especially the 5 Cs namely: Communication,
Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking and Character while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the body of
the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this module.
You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to manage
their own learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the learners
as they do the tasks included in the module.
For the learner:

Welcome to the Science 6 Self-Learning Module 8 on the Describing Sound Energy!

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depict skill, action and purpose. Through our hands we may learn, create and
accomplish. Hence, the hand in this learning resource signifies that you as a learner
is capable and empowered to successfully achieve the relevant competencies and
skills at your own pace and time. Your academic success lies in your own hands!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful opportunities for
guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You will be enabled to
process the contents of the learning material while being an active learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectation - These are what you will be able to know after

completing the lessons in the module

Pre-test - This will measure your prior knowledge and the

concepts to be mastered throughout the lesson.

Recap - This section will measure what learnings and skills

that you understand from the previous lesson.

Lesson - This section will discuss the topic for this module.

Activities - This is a set of activities you will perform.

Wrap Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

applications of the lessons.

Valuing - This part will check the integration of values in the

learning competency.

Post-test - This will measure how much you have learned from
the entire module.
 EXPECTATIONS
This module will focus on describing sound energy.

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. describe how sound energy is formed and used;
2. enumerate examples of the things that produce sound; and
3. value the importance of sound energy.

PRETEST

Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write your answers on a
separate sheet of paper.

1. What energy is formed by making vibrations?

A. heat energy
B. light energy
C. sound energy
D. electrical energy

2. Which of the following produces sound energy?

A. ironing clothes
B. burning a candle
C. beating the drum
D. lighting the burner

3. Which of the following statements best described how sound energy is

produced?
A. It is produced by making vibrations.
B. It is produced from muscles, wind, and machines.
C. It is produced from sunlight, magnets, and dry cell.
D. It is produced using electricity, generators, and batteries

4. An ultrasound produces echo which is an example of sound energy.

Why is ultrasound used by hospitals and lying-in clinics?
A. To prevent premature delivery of the baby
B. To give warmth to the baby inside a mother’s womb
C. To show the developing baby inside a mother’s womb
D. To change the baby’s position inside a mother’s womb
 5. Why is sound energy important to all living things?
A. It makes work easier.
B. It enables us to do work.
C. It can make communication easy.
D. It enables us to understand what is going on around us.

RECAP

In the last lesson, you identified the different forms of energy. Before we
proceed to the next topic, let us try to recall your past lesson.

Identify the type of energy shown in the pictures whether it is electrical,

heat, light, or sound energy. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

1. camp fire 2. light bulb 3. alarm 4. electric fan 5. flat iron

clock
_____________ ____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

Awesome! You learned a lot from the previous lesson. Now, are you
excited to enhance your knowledge about sound energy?

Try to close your eyes for about five seconds and just listen. Can you
name the sounds you hear? In this lesson, you will learn more about sound
energy.
 LESSON

Describing Sound Energy

Sound energy is the energy produced by vibrating objects. When objects

vibrate, sound waves are produced. Sound waves are able to carry vibrations
through a medium. This results in the transfer of the energy collected in the
vibrations. We hear sound when sound waves that are travelling through the
air or another material reach our ears.
Music is used for entertainment and communication. Music is made up
of sounds that are produced when people sing or when musical instruments
are played.
Unlike light, sound needs a medium like gases, solids, or liquids to
travel through. Solid is a better transmitter of sound than liquid. Liquid is a
better transmitter of sound than gas.

Uses of Sound Energy

1. Sound is used in communication. Devices used to relay meanings

through words require the use of sound. We use communication devices that
use sound like the telephone, TV, radio, and others.

2. Sound is used in geology. Sound is used in geology in locating oil and

mineral reservoirs underground. It also helps seismologists track
earthquakes and find out how earthquakes travel through magma and rocks.

3. Sound energy is used in navigation. Ultrasonic waves are sound waves

which are used to locate sunken ships and schools of fish and to map the
ocean floor. They are also used by submarines in military activities.

4. Sound energy is used in medicines. The use of ultrasound in monitoring

pregnancies and other medical conditions is very common nowadays in
hospitals, lying-in clinics, and laboratories. Through the use of ultrasound,
doctors are able to find out what is happening inside the body. Scanning is
also used for locating gallstones, tumors, and kidney stones.
 ACTIVITIES

To further enhance your knowledge about describing sound energy, let

us do some activities.

Activity 1: Sound Me Up!

Directions: Do the activity carefully. Then answer the questions. Write your
answers on a separate sheet of paper.
Problem: How is sound produced?
Material: guitar or ukulele
Procedures:
Pluck the strings of the guitar or ukulele. Note how the strings move.
Do they produce sound? ____________________
Questions:
How do the strings of the ukulele or guitar move?
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
How can you make objects produce sound?
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
Conclusion:
How is sound produced?
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________

Activity 2: Hear Me Out!

Directions: Do the activity carefully. Then answer the questions. Write your
answers on a separate sheet of paper.
Problem: What is produced when we talk?
What are needed: oneself and another person
Procedure:
1. Speak and talk to your classmate.
2. While talking, put your open palm across your throat area.
Questions:
1. Were you able to produce sound? _________________________
2. Describe what you felt while speaking.
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
3. How was sound produced by the vocal cords?
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
Conclusion:
How is sound produced when we talk?
_________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
Activity 3: Sound of Music!

Directions: Describe the uses of the given sounds. Follow the given
example.

Examples of Sounds Uses of the Sound

Example: siren A siren announces the approaching of an
ambulance.
1. radio
2. church bells ringing
3. knocking at the door
4. fire truck siren
5. blowing of horn

WRAP–UP

Directions: Rearrange the jumbled letters to form the correct word being
defined. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

__________ 1. DOUNS is an energy produced by a vibrating object.

__________ 2. DSLIO is best transmitter of sound than liquid.

__________ 3. DNOUSARTLU is used to show the developing baby inside

the mother’s womb.

__________ 4. RASON is a device capable of sensing short pulses of

ultrasonic waves through the water.

__________ 5. CINOSARTLU are sound waves that have high frequencies

with short wavelengths.
 VALUING

In times of emergencies, you can hear the siren of an ambulance

rushing to hospitals or siren of fire trucks rushing towards a scene of fire.

What must drivers do when they hear the sirens of an ambulance or a

fire truck engine behind their vehicles? Write your answer on a separate sheet
of paper.

Your answer:

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

POSTTEST

Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the letter of your
answer on a separate sheet of paper.

1. What energy is formed when you play the piano?

A. heat energy
B. light energy
C. sound energy
D. electrical energy
2. Which of the following activities is an example of sound energy?
A. Riding a bicycle
B. Using a flashlight
C. Wiping the mirror
D. Ringing the ice cream bell

3. What are you going to do when you hear the siren of an ambulance?
A. run as fast as you could
B. give way because of an emergency
C. compete with the pacing of an ambulance
D. ignore the siren because it doesn’t concern you

4. How does the seismologist use the sound energy in their work?
A. Used locate oil and minerals
B. Used to monitor pregnancies
C. Used to find out the weather update
D. Used to track earthquake and volcanic activity

5. Why is sound energy used for taking images of babies inside the womb?
A. Sound is less harmful among others forms of energy.
B. Light energy will not pass through the mother’s skin and flesh.
C. The babies inside the womb can already hear sounds but cannot see
yet.
D. Sound can be transmitted safely through human tissues and fluids
and can be reflected back to be used for imaging.
 KEY TO CORRECTION

5. D
4. D
3. B
approaching vehicle
2. D 5. announcing of the 5. electrical/heat
1. C 4. fire incident 4. electrical
POSTEST 3.someone is entering 3.sound
2. time for mass 2.light/electrical
Answers may vary 1. listen to music 1.heat
VALUING Activity 3 RECAP

5. ultrasonic
4. sonar 5. D
3. ultrasound 4. C
3. A
2. solid explorations 2. C
1.sound explorations Activity 1 1. C
WRAP-UP Activity 2 ACTIVITIES PRETEST

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Government of the Philippines. Department of Education. 2009. BEAM Distance

Learning Program. Science and Health 5, Module 16 The Vertebrates

Pascual, A., Alcober, A., Ranay, Z., Exploring the World of Science 6, Quezon City.
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