OO-030 Human Ear Powerpoint

Human Ear Lesson Guide
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The Human Ear
• When you hear a sound it is due to sound waves travelling
through the air.
• These waves are turned into sounds we hear by our ears and
our brain.
• Sound waves press on the ear drum. This moves tiny bones
called ossicles. The ossicles pull on a minute oval window
on a snail shaped structure called the cochlea.
• This makes waves of sticky fluid inside the hollow cochlea
that bend miniscule hairs on nerve cells.
• The bending is detected by the brain as sounds.
Structure of the ear
Semicircular canals
Cochlea
Ossicles
Pinna
Ear drum
Auditory canal Eustachian tube
What do you need?
Materials
Ear sheet 1 choose a skin tone
Ear sheets 2 and 3
Tools
Tape
Scissors
Make pinna
• Choose skin tone to use. Cut out along solid black
lines.
Make auditory canal
• Cut out along solid black lines. Fold up sides along
dashed lines.
• Fold ear drum across and tape on the side only so it

can move.
Make auditory canal
• Fold ear drum across and tape along the side so it can
bend in the middle.
Make middle ear
dashed lines.
Make middle ear
• Curl long side along the edge and tape it to the base to
complete.
Make Eustachian tube
dashed lines to complete.
Make inner ear
dashed lines.
• Curl side along the edge and tape it to the base to
complete.
Make ossicles
• Cut out around outer black line. Fold in half along
dashed line and tape together.
Make cochlea
• Cut out along solid black lines.
• Fold up side along dashed lines, curl around and tape
to base.
Make cochlea
• Curl around and tape to base.
Make cochlea
• Fold wall along dashed line and tape across flat end of
cochlea.
• Tape rest of inner wall to base along inner edge.
Make cochlea
• Cut out oval/round window
along black lines.
• Tape to one side of curved end of cochlea. Then fold
across and tape to other side not the base.
Make semicircular canals
• Cut out along solid black lines.
• Fold up end along dashed line. Tape ends together

making loop. Repeat for all three.
• Tape two loops together as shown:
• Tape third loop to these as shown. Then tape further
along as indicated:
Tape here
Third loop
Make outer ear
• Align pinna and auditory canal as shown and tape
together to make outer ear.
Join outer and middle ear
• Align outer ear and middle ear as shown and tape
together.
Add Eustachian tube
• Align Eustachian tube and middle ear as shown and
tape together.
Join cochlea
• Align cochlea and middle ear as shown and tape
together.
Attach ossicles
• Tape flat side of ossicles to ear drum. Then tape the
loop side of it to the oval window of cochlea.
Tape here
Tape here
Attach semicircular canals
• Align inner ear base and middle ear as shown and tape together.
Insert semicircular canals to complete your model.
The finished model
• Identify parts and say what they do.
• Show how sound travels through the ear.
• Discuss what goes wrong with hearing and how these
conditions can be treated.
Alternative versions
Name the parts
Name the parts
Semicircular canals
Cochlea
Ossicles
Pinna
Ear drum
(tympanic
Eustachian tube
membrane)
Auditory canal
Outer ear Middle ear Inner ear
Outer ear
• Sound waves travel through air into pinna.
• They move through the auditory canal.
• They hit the ear drum causing it to move.
Ear drum
Middle ear
• Movement of the ear drum moves the ossicles.
• This amplifies the sound and vibrates the oval window
on the cochlea.
Malleus
Incus Ossicles
Stapes
Oval window
Ear drum
Inner ear
• The movement of the oval window makes a wave in
the sticky liquid in the canals in the cochlea.
Oval window
Round window
Vestibular
Tympanic Basilar canal
canal membrane
Inner ear
• Wave moves through the upper channel and back
round on the other side in lower channel to the round
window.
Inner ear
• The waves in the outer channels move hair cells in the
centre of the cochlea (basilar membrane).
• Hair cells send nerve signals to brain.
• Our brain senses these movements as sound.
Basilar
membrane
Glue ear
• Caused by build up of liquid in middle ear due to
blockage of Eustachian tube. Affects hearing and
speech development in young children.
Ear drum
Eustachian tube
• Tiny tubes called grommets are inserted into ear drum

to release pressure in middle ear.
Balance
• The ear also detects our position in space and give us
our sense of balance.
• The semicircular canals in the inner ear are filled with
sticky fluid.
Semicircular
canals
Balance
• When our head turns the fluid moves hair cells in the
base of semicircular canals to send signals to the
brain.
• Because the 3 canals are at different angles, the brain
can compare the information from the three canals to
work out how our head is positioned and our
direction of movement.
Congratulations
you’ve made an ear!
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Human Ear Lesson Guide

• Fold ear drum across and tape on the side only so it

• Tape rest of inner wall to base along inner edge.

• Fold up end along dashed line. Tape ends together

Outer ear Middle ear Inner ear

• Tiny tubes called grommets are inserted into ear drum

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