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    The document describes an activity where students build a simple "tissue box guitar" to understand how vibration causes sound. Students stretch a rubber band across an empty tissue box to form strings. Plucking the rubber band causes it to vibrate, generating sound waves that travel through the air. Thinner rubber bands with faster vibrations produce higher pitches, similar to thinner guitar strings. The activity allows students to explore how the frequency of an object's vibrations determines the pitch of the sound produced.

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    The document describes an activity where students build a simple "tissue box guitar" to understand how vibration causes sound. Students stretch a rubber band across an empty tissue box to form strings. Plucking the rubber band causes it to vibrate, generating sound waves that travel through the air. Thinner rubber bands with faster vibrations produce higher pitches, similar to thinner guitar strings. The activity allows students to explore how the frequency of an object's vibrations determines the pitch of the sound produced.

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    The document describes an activity where students build a simple "tissue box guitar" to understand how vibration causes sound. Students stretch a rubber band across an empty tissue box to form strings. Plucking the rubber band causes it to vibrate, generating sound waves that travel through the air. Thinner rubber bands with faster vibrations produce higher pitches, similar to thinner guitar strings. The activity allows students to explore how the frequency of an object's vibrations determines the pitch of the sound produced.

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    Tissue Box Guitar

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    Eman Jamael
    The document describes an activity where students build a simple "tissue box guitar" to understand how vibration causes sound. Students stretch a rubber band across an empty tissue box to form strings. Plucking the rubber band causes it to vibrate, generating sound waves that travel through the air. Thinner rubber bands with faster vibrations produce higher pitches, similar to thinner guitar strings. The activity allows students to explore how the frequency of an object's vibrations determines the pitch of the sound produced.

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    Eman Jamael November 5, 2021

    GED- 107 Teaching Science in the Ma’am Norhayna Dimple Unte


    Intermediate Grades
    Tissue Box Guitar

    Learning objectives:

    A. Understand that vibration causes sound


    B. Make a sound and identify what vibrates to cause the sound

    Introduction

    Did you know the modern guitar is an instrument that dates back more than 4,000
    years? The first written guitar music was published in the 16th century, during a time
    when guitars still had strings made from animal intestines! Although guitars have a
    long history, they are still extremely popular in modern day music. Have you ever
    wondered how they make the music you listen to everyday? In this activity we’ll
    make our own guitars and test the different sounds we can create.

    Background

    Sounds travel to our ears as sound waves—vibrations in the air we perceive as sound.
    These waves are generated by the vibration or movement of an object in a medium.
    They most commonly reach us by traveling via the air, although they can also pass
    through liquids and solids—that’s why you can hear things underwater or if you press
    your ear up against a wall. A vibrating object, such as a tuning fork, generates a sound
    wave. The fork’s vibrations cause the air particles around it to vibrate at the same
    frequency. These air particles bump into the air particles around them, and the sound
    wave propagates outward from the tuning fork.

    When a guitarist plucks a guitar string it vibrates at a specific frequency, which


    determines the pitch of the sound we hear. Faster vibrations produce higher-pitched
    sounds. Children generally have smaller, thinner vocal cords that vibrate much faster
    than those of adults. As a result children’s voices sound much higher.

    In this activity you will build your own guitar and explore how frequency changes the
    pitch of the sound we hear.

    Materials

     Rubber bands
     Empty tissue box (or any)
     
    Tissue Box Guitar Procedure

     Stretch a rubber band lengthwise over the opening of the tissue box.
     Decorate your work to make it more beautiful.

    Observations and results


    Gently pull the rubber band tight across the box and then release it.

    The sound made by the instrument was the sound created by the rubber band vibrating
    when you plucked it, much like how a real guitar string vibrates when played by a
    musician. As you strummed the strings of your instrument you might have noticed
    you could feel the vibrations of the rubber band traveling through the tissue box.

    The thickness of the rubber band changed the tone of the sound you heard when you
    plucked it. The thinner strings on a guitar make a higher-pitch sound because they can
    vibrate more quickly than the thicker ones. The thinner strings on your rubber band
    guitar are the same—they vibrate more quickly, and we perceive these vibrations as a
    higher-pitched sound.

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