Third-graders learn about sound

Marie Curie Institute’s third-graders recently got a lesson in sound from the Scotia-Glenville Children’s Museum.

During the lesson “Sounds Good to Me,” students learned about the different ways that sound travels and how our ears work to pick up that sound. Students learned vocabulary words that define the different properties of sound, and also how sound travels through different instruments and objects.

At the end of the lesson, students made flutes by taping together straws of various lengths, each of which made a different sound when students blew through them, just like real flutes! Students even played a melody on their instruments.

This was a wonderful program that tied in with McNulty’s magnet school literacy theme and helped students learn more about sound through discussion and hands-on activities.

To view a photo gallery of the lesson, click here.