SOUND ENERGY Lesson note

PROPOSED LESSON PLAN/NOTE FOR THE NINEHT WEEK ENDING 11th NOVEMBER, 2022

2022/2023 ACADEMIC SESSION

SUBJECT: BASIC SCIENCE

TOPIC: SOUND ENERGY

CLASS: GRADE 9

NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 25

AVERAGE AGE: 11+ YEARS

GENDER: MIXED


PERIOD: 7th AND 8th PERIOD ON TUESDAY AND FRIDAY RESPECTIVELY

TIME: 1:20-2:00

DURATION: 40 MINUTES PER PERIOD

DATE: 07/11/2022

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson the students should be able to;

1. describe production of sound;

2. explain transmission of sound.

 ENTRY BEHAVIOUR: The students are familiar with sounds from human, animals and vehicles.

INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUE: Visual, questions, simulation.

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS: Textbook, lesson note, laptop, projector, marker, whiteboard.

DEVELOPMENT:

STEP 1: PRODUCTION OF SOUND

    Every day we hear sounds produced by living things as well as non-living things. When we clap, a sound is produced. Sound is a form of energy which produces a sensation of hearing in our ears. Sound plays an important role in our lives. It helps us to communicate with one another.

   Sound can be produced by plucking, scratching, rubbing, blowing or shaking different objects. This shows that vibrating objects produce sound such as a vibrating rubber band. Vibration is a kind of rapid to and fro motion of an object. For example, the sound of the human voice is produced due to vibrations in the vocal cords. Musical instruments such as a guitar produce sound due to vibration in its strings.

STEP 2: TRANSMISSION OF SOUND

    Sound is a mechanical wave. It needs a medium such as solid, liquid or gas for its propagation. It cannot travel through vacuum. The matter or substance through which sound is transmitted is called a medium. Sound waves are longitudinal waves. A wave is a disturbance that moves through a medium when the particles of the medium set neighbouring particles into motion. When an object vibrates, it makes the particles of the medium around it to vibrate. The particles do not move from one place to another, but they simply oscillate back and forth about their position of rest. They in turn produce similar motion in others. In this way, the disturbance is carried forward but the particles of the medium do not move forward themselves. This is what happens during propagation of sound in a medium. During the propagation of the sound waves, the individual particles of the medium move in a direction parallel to the direction of propagation of the disturbance.

   The most common medium through which sound travels is air. When a vibrating object moves forward, it pushes and compresses the air in front of it which creates a region of high pressure and high density. This region is called compression. This compression starts to move away from the vibrating object. When the vibrating object moves backwards, it creates a region of low pressure and low density which is called rarefaction. As the object moves back and forth rapidly series of compressions and rarefactions is created in the air.

    These make the sound wave that it propagates through the medium. Sound travels 330 meters in one second in air. It takes about one-tenth of a second for the human ear to separate one sound from another. The human ear can hear two sounds separately and distinctly only if there is an interval of 0.1 seconds between the two. This is called persistence of hearing.

EVALUATION: Oral questions

1. What is compression?

2. What is rarefaction?

3. Write briefly the characteristics of sound.

SUMMARY/CONCLUSSION: Sound is produced by a vibrating object. It is a form of energy which produces a sensation of hearing in our ears.

ASSIGNMENT:

1. What is compression?

2. What is rarefaction?

3. Write briefly the characteristics of sound.

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