Deaf Awareness Week - 5th to 11th May 2025
This collection of resources includes activities, investigations and articles to explore the concept of sound and hearing.
Pupils investigate the range of human hearing, explore the pitch and frequency of sounds and calculate the wavelength of sounds, they also discover the causes, effects and preventative strategies related to hearing loss and develop a set of survey questions to assess the noisiest places in school.
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Hearing Trouble
This Catalyst article looks at 'Restored Hearing', a business which grew out of a school science project. It provides therapy for sufferers of temporary tinnitus, a debilitating hearing condition caused by exposure to loud noises. The article looks at how hearing loss can occur and how also explains how the...
Range of Human Hearing
This activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), allows students to investigate the range of human hearing, to explore the pitch and frequency of sounds and to calculate the wavelength of sounds.
...Sound and Hearing
From Teachers TV, this video is part of the Lesson Starters series. It contains five creative ideas for primary science lesson starters to introduce the concept of sound and hearing. Each of these videos presents the topic of sound and hearing in an exciting and accessible way, ending with a question designed to...
Can You Hear Me?
This Catalyst article looks at hearing loss, which is usually associated with the elderly, straining to hear the TV while turning up their hearing aid. As a teenager losing the ability to hear correctly seems decades away but hearing loss is increasingly becoming a problem for young adults and teenagers. The...
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| Subject(s) | Science, Biology |
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| Age | 5-7, 7-11, 11-14, 14-16, 16-19 |
| Published | 2020 to date |
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| Direct URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/cxhyto |
