Voice Science: Using Digital Tools to Explore Pitch and Amplitude Documents
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Main Document
Voice Science: Using Digital Tools to Explore Pitch and Amplitude
written by
Caroline Hall
consultant:
David Straw
This interactive AAPT Lesson blends a cell phone oscilloscope app with a digital wave graphing activity from the Concord Consortium to explore how human voice patterns can be visualized as waves. Students will hum and sing various pitches and loudness, using microphones on their phones and computers. The digital tools transform the voice recordings into wave patterns. By viewing graphs of their own voices in real time, learners can deeply explore factors that affect amplitude, wavelength, pitch, and frequency of sound. The lesson can be adapted for both middle school and high school. Resource includes assessment with answer key and Student Guide.
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Published March 5, 2018
Last Modified March 7, 2018
Primary Documents (2)
Teacher's Guide: Voice Science
by Caroline Hall and David Straw
Word Version: Print and customize your lesson.
- Download VoiceScience_TeacherGuideFINAL-CorrectedHeader-CHall_2018February.docx - 1020kb Word Document
Released under a ©AAPT, 2018
Published March 5, 2018
Last Modified March 7, 2018
Student Guide: Voice Science
by Caroline Hall and David Straw
Printable student version for classroom distribution.
- Download VoiceScience_StudentGuideFINAL-CHall2018February.docx - 616kb Word Document
Released under a ©AAPT, 2018
Published March 5, 2018
Last Modified March 7, 2018
Supplemental Documents
Pitch, Loudness, and Timbre
by Kyle Forinash
Background Information and Content Support
- Download PitchLoudnessTimbre-Chapter8_KyleForinash-2018.docx - 759kb Word Document
Released under a ©Kyle Forinash
Published February 12, 2018
Last Modified March 7, 2018
