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How Sound Gets to Your Ears
Grade 4 · Natural Sciences and Technology · Term 3Natural Sciences and Technology · Term 3
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Follow sound as it travels — and find out how to protect your hearing.
- Show that sound always moves outwards from the part that is vibrating.
- Find out that vibrations travel through materials such as air, water, plastic, metal and wood.
- Investigate how to make a sound louder and travel further.
- Find out how your ear picks up vibrations so that you can hear.
- Identify sources of noise pollution and explain how to protect your hearing from loud sound.
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