The teacher may adjust the difficulty of this lesson according to the level of the student. This site shows how a drum head vibrates and illustrates with an MPEG movie, the motion of a vibrating object. Requires an MPEG player to view. The visual design will keep students engaged in the activities. They can make sound with rulers, design an eardrum and experience slinky sound waves.
Students can search for different sounds in the online database.
You can add sounds to the database so the students can hear the specific sounds that tie in with the lesson. This site helps students to understand the basic structure of a wave. It gives students the opportunity to adjust different parts of a wave such as amplitude, wavelength, wave speed, and phase shift. This first page could be used for middle school students was well as the link entitled waves, while other links could be used for high school students to look at the physics of how waves behave and the trigonometric realms of waves. This site has information and activities for students to use sound and waves.