Hearing: Frequency and Volume
Test your hearing range by listening to low-, medium-, and high-frequency sounds. Compare the relative loudness of sounds at each frequency to create an equal-loudness curve. In a quiet room, measure your threshold of audibility for each frequency, and compare your results to others. The volume of each sound can be adjusted.
Launch GizmoHearing: Frequency and Volume
Test your hearing range by listening to low-, medium-, and high-frequency sounds. Compare the relative loudness of sounds at each frequency to create an equal-loudness curve. In a quiet room, measure your threshold of audibility for each frequency, and compare your results to others. The volume of each sound can be adjusted.
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Google Doc of Student Exploration Sheet
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Earth/Space Science, Environmental Science, Middle School Physical Science, Physics
Hearing and Volume Student Exploratory Guide
This lesson accompanies the lessons in the teacher's guide. It will take 2 class periods to complete the... (more) entire guide. Students test their own hearing and compare it to classmates as well as learn about sound frequencies. An additional 5 question assessement is included.
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Middle School Physical Science
Hearing and Volume Teacher's Guide
This guide follows the format of other Gizmo teacher's guides. It can be used alone or with the student ... (more)exploratory guide that was also created with it. Students investigate their own hearing and how it change with age.
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Middle School Physical Science
User Recommendations (3):
Question for the downloaded file of the worksheet....How do we do #7? It asks to put dots and lines and it is an image. Thanks!
Recommended for: 5th Grade ScienceGizmo User from Ohio
This Gizmo is great to show the difference between frequency, loudness and volume. And the Lesson Materials created by Scott Nelson ROCK!
Recommended for: PhysicsGizmo User from Virginia
Students love giving themselves a hearing test.
Recommended for: Middle School Physical ScienceGizmo User from Florida