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Year 4 · Science

Sounds And Vibrations

Year 4 learners practise how sounds are made by vibrations.

The activities include Explore How Sounds are Made, Investigate How to Make Sounds Louder or Quieter, Recognise How Sounds are Made by Musical Instruments, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, interactive, lesson. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.

Activities covered

  • Explore How Sounds are Made
  • Investigate How to Make Sounds Louder or Quieter
  • Recognise How Sounds are Made by Musical Instruments
  • Recognise How to Change the Amplitude of Musical Instruments
  • Recognise that Sound Volume is Related to the Distance from the Source
  • Study How Sounds Travel to our Ears
  • Understand How Sounds are Made
  • Understand How Sounds are Made by Musical Instruments
  • Understand How Sounds Travel to Our Ear
  • Understand How the Strength of Vibrations Affects Volume
  • Understand How to Make Sounds With Instruments

Checked learning resources

  • How Sounds Are Made

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 lesson demonstrates that sounds are produced by vibrating objects, including examples pupils can see and feel.

  • Louder and quieter sounds

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 lesson, video, worksheet and quizzes linking vibration strength and amplitude to louder and quieter sounds.

  • Distance from sounds: plan

    Oak National Academy · Video · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 lesson, video, worksheet and quizzes planning an investigation into how sound volume decreases with distance from its source.

  • How Sounds Are Made: Worksheet and Quiz

    Oak National Academy · Interactive · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 worksheet and quizzes apply the idea that sound sources vibrate.

  • Science: Sound: How Are Sounds Made? Year 4 Lesson 1

    Twinkl · Lesson · Account may be required

    Year 4 lesson presentation and activities show that sounds are caused by vibrations and explain how vibrating instruments and the ear produce and detect sound.

  • Science: Volume, Vibrations and Sound Waves Year 4 Lesson 3

    Twinkl · Lesson · Account may be required

    Year 4 lesson directly investigates how stronger vibrations produce louder sounds and how instruments can be played more loudly or quietly.

  • Investigating Musical Instrument Sounds KS2

    Twinkl · Lesson · Account may be required

    Audio PowerPoint explains how string, brass, woodwind and percussion instruments produce sound and includes listening activities.

  • Louder and quieter sounds worksheet and quiz downloads

    Oak National Academy · Interactive · Opens on the provider website

    Year 4 downloadable Year 4 worksheet and starter and exit quizzes linking vibration strength and amplitude to louder and quieter sounds.