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• Title:Exploring the science of sounds : 100 musical activities for young children / by Abigail Flesch Connors.
  
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• Author/Creator:Connors, Abigail Flesch, 1957- author.
  
• Published/Created:Lewisville, NC : Gryphon House, Inc., [2017]
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QC225.5 .C65 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Sound--Juvenile literature.
  Music--Acoustics and physics--Juvenile literature.
  
• Description:xi, 196 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
  
• Summary:"Most preschool teachers have musical instruments in their classrooms, but may not realize they can use them for science explorations. Science, technology, engineering, arts, and math-STEAM-these explorations are crucial for laying a solid foundation for later learning. In this book, discover 100 activities that let children ages 3-6 explore the science of music and sound using materials easy to find for a preschool classroom. Children will use their bodies to create sounds, explore the relationship between size and pitch, investigate how tempo affects the way we listen to sounds, create musical instruments, and much more. From the drops of rainwater to the tinkling of wind chimes, the science of sound is all around. You will indulge young children's curiosity and engage them in scientific inquiry as they explore, listen, observe, experiment, think, and discuss different kinds of sounds and the tools for making them."--Goodreads.com.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-189) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780876597316 (pbk.)
  0876597312
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Sounds of Our Bodies
  Listening to Our Heartbeats
  Sounds We Can Make with Our Voices
  Ways We Can Clap Our Hands
  One Foot, Two Feet
  Snapping, Knuckles, Nails, and More
  Sounds We Can Make Using Only Our Lips, Teeth, and Tongues
  What Are They Doing in There?
  Here Comes the Beat
  Clicker Bugs and Popper Bugs
  Snake and the Cake
  Once Upon a Tap
  Adding Body Sounds to the Song "If You're Happy and You Know It"
  Using Body Sounds to Accompany a Story
  ch. 2 How Sound Moves: The Science of Acoustics
  Sounds Are Vibrations
  Can We See Sound Moving?
  Vibration
  -A Special Kind of Motion
  Let's Vibrate!
  Can Sound Move through a Solid Object?
  Crunch!
  Scraping Rhythm Sticks in the Air and on the Floor
  Which Will Sound Louder: Rhythm Sticks Hitting a Hard Floor or Mittens Hitting a Hard Floor?
  Which Will Sound Louder: Cymbals Crashing into Each Other or Cymbals Wrapped in Small Towels and Crashing into Each Other?
  Why Does Sound Move Differently through Air, Liquid, and Solid Things?
  Sound Is Moving
  ch. 3 Different Objects, Different Sounds: The Science of Timbre, or Sound Quality
  Different Kinds of Drums
  Mallets and Brushes
  Whistles, Recorders, and Other Wind Instruments
  Different Kinds of Stringed Instruments
  Dancing with Paper
  Let's Crumple!
  Water and Ice
  Skater's Waltz
  Aluminum Foil Sounds
  Plastic and Metal Spoons
  Top and Bottom of a Coffee Can
  Adding Thunder to a Story about a Storm
  Tricks with Triangles
  Inside the Shaker
  Make Music in the Kitchen: Sounds of Metal
  Get Takeout: Sounds of Plastic
  Sound Soup
  Rig-a-Jig-Jig
  Sandpaper Sound
  Guiro Sound
  How to Play an Oven Rack
  R-r-r-rip!
  Tap Gloves Guessing Game
  Drawing Timbres
  Robot Dance
  Mystery Music Can
  ch. 4 Loud and Soft Sounds: The Science of Loudness
  Marching Minute Challenge
  Making Other Loud and Soft Sounds with Our Feet
  Clapping Loudly and Softly
  Conducting Loud and Soft Bells
  Sshhhh!
  Will Aluminum Foil Sound Louder When Shaken with Two Fingers or with Both Hands?
  Making Loud and Soft Sounds with Water
  Water Music
  Even One Raindrop
  Crash
  Using Bells to Accompany "The Crickets"
  Shakers Near and Far
  Paper Birds, Part 1
  Paper Birds, Part 2
  Walking through the Jungle
  Stomping in the Street
  Bunnies and Bears
  ch. 5 Fast and Slow Sounds: The Science of Speed and Tempo
  Speed and Tempo of a Beach Ball
  Names between Beats
  Moving the Drums
  "T-E-M-P-O"
  Metronome Tempos
  Animal Heartbeats
  "The Tortoise and the Hare"
  Partner Clapping
  Slow and Fast Body Sounds
  Frogs and Lily Pads
  ch. 6 High and Low Sounds: The Science of Pitch
  Plucking Small and Large Rubber Bands
  Plucking Ukulele Strings Using Frets
  Will Shorter Bars on a Glockenspiel Sound Higher than Longer Bars, Even If We Turn the Glockenspiel Around?
  Pitchmobile
  Glasses with Different Pitches
  Puppies and the Big Dogs
  BIG Elephant Stomp
  Do the Cricket Hop!
  Tubular Tones
  ch. 7 Outside Sounds: The Science of Natural and Environmental Sounds
  Sounds of Rain
  Walk for Listening and Understanding
  Wind Chimes
  Singing Birds
  Buzzing Bees
  "The Oak Tree Song"
  What the Birds Heard
  Outside Orchestra
  Using Outside Sounds to Accompany a Story
  ch. 8 Creating Musical Instruments
  Creating Shakers with Different Timbres
  Creating Stringed Instruments
  Creating Drums That Are More than Drums
  Creating Wind Chimes with Different Timbres
  Using Handmade Instruments to Accompany Songs
  Using Handmade Instruments to Accompany Story.