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Sound and its qualities

From Happy Learning

Sound and its qualities
6 min1st2nd3rd4thScience
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Summary

Happy Learning explains how vibrations make sound and what makes sounds high, low, loud, or soft. A clear, friendly animated lesson that drops easily into a unit, a center, or a quick review.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

Matter, light, sound, forces, and energy are the everyday science behind how things move, change, and reach our senses.

  1. What science idea does this video explain?
  2. Where have you seen it happen in real life?
  3. What caused the change or movement you saw?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: matter, energy, force, light, sound, change.

Try it: Find one example of this idea around you and describe what is happening and why.