40 - 50 minutes presentation with activities
$5.00 per student (includes consumables)
Presentation, Demonstrations and Activities designed for Inspiration.
Suitable for Year 1 Science classes doing the National Science Curriculum.
The Sound program includes:
- different ways of producing sound (including singing metal rods)
- sounds made by musical instruments (including jews harp, nose flute, musical saw, theremin, etc.)
- frequency and pitch, and range of hearing (with demonstration)
- Loudness and care of ears (fog horn and use of ear plugs)
- demonstrations of antique hearing aids
- wave patterns of the human voice
- feeling loudspeakers, tuning forks, the Zube Tube, and spectacular Chladni plates,.
- our eyes detect light (binocular vision, etc.)
- how we see things
- sources of light - natural and artificial
- colour blindness and colour after images
- colour activities (chromatography, Benhams disc, etc.)
- the famous Invisible Box