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How Music Is Made

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How Music Is Made
1 min1st2nd3rdMusicScience
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Summary

The StoryBots explore how vibrations make sound and music. A bright, catchy short that drops easily into a lesson, a center, or a brain-friendly review.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

Sound and music are made when something vibrates and sends those vibrations through the air to our ears.

  1. How is the sound or music in this video made?
  2. What is vibrating to make the sound?
  3. How can you make a high sound and a low sound with your voice?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: sound, vibrate, music, instrument, loud, soft.

Try it: Make a sound with something in the room and describe what is vibrating to make it.