Name: Teacher’s Key Date:
Directions: Answer the questions when the video is paused by your teacher.
There is an instruction on the video to pause it and allow time to answer questions:
Why is sound important to us?
It helps us talk, learn about things, enjoy listening and entertain us, communicate, warns us of danger
Why do you think objects make sounds when they are moved or touched?
This is a guess, a pre-teaching lessen designed to promote interest in sound. There can be many various answers.
Directions: Answer the questions as you watch the video. Don’t worry if you miss something! You will have a class discussion about the answers when the video is over. Start the video again for these questions:
1.
When is a sound made?
When something vibrates.
2.
What are sound vibrations called?
Sound Waves
3.
How do we hear sounds?
Our eardrum vibrates.
5.
How are sound waves like a ball?
They bounce off things.
4.
What does sound travel through?
Air, water, wood, metal
6.
How are sounds different?
Some are loud, soft, high, and low.
8.
What is the name for how high or low a sound is?
Pitch
7.
What is the name for how loud or soft a sound is?
Volume
9.
What did you learn from John
Bertles about making different pitches on musical instruments?
Making objects tight or loose, long or short, and big or small can change pitch.
10.
What vibrates in our bodies to help us make noise?
Our vocal cords.
By Jennie Mong-KSD
2003