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School workshop plan: "Music to the ears Designing and creating a sound generator"

  • December 2014
  • Education & learning
  • Material for workshops and exhibitions

Aimed at 9-11 year old students. Relates to acoustic engineering and sound.

Developed as part of the ENGINEER project (2011-2014)

In this unit the pupils design and make their own simple string generator they can make a soundtrack for a movie clip that has no sound. This enables them to learn and experience properties of sound such as sound being a vibration and the differences in vibration between a low versus high pitch. They also work like engineers with the engineering design process.

Versions in other languages and editable version are available here.

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Keywords

  • engineering
  • Workshop
  • acoustics
  • engineer

Project

ENGINEER

ENGINEER supported the widespread adoption in Europe of innovative methods of science teaching and the introduction of engineering in schools. In November 2014, Engineer won a Scientix Award for the category "STEM teaching materials addressed to teachers".