• Key Stage 1
  • Forces
  • Ourselves
  • Plants
  • Materials
  • Light
  • Sound
  • Variation
  • Life Cycles
  • Animals
• Key Stage 2
  • Ourselves
  • Life Cycles
  • Habitats
  • Changing State
  • Materials
  • Forces
  • Light
  • Animals
  • Plants
  • Energy
  • Food

Have fun with sound, use these links to free to use resources with the whole class.

Ear Gongs Lesson Plan

In this activity you can make a coat hanger sound like Big Ben by tapping it against a table and allowing the vibrations to travel through the various materials to your inner ear. Lesson plan with downloadable instructions and template.

Ear Guitar Lesson Plan

When you pluck the string on an Ear Guitar, the string starts vibrating. The vibration in the string starts the bottom of the cup vibrating, which starts the air inside the cup vibrating. The cup helps channel those vibrating air molecules into your ear-so you hear the sound loud and clear.

Extendable Bonko Lesson Plan

Make an Extendable Bonko to see how the length of a tube affects its pitch, and the amount of force you hit it with affects its loudness.

Liz Gets An Earful Interactive

Can you help Liz match the sounds to the pictures.

Sound Interactive

A sound identification activity with sorting of musical instruments by how the sound is made.

Sounds Interactive

BBC interactive experiment in sounds and volume with a quiz.