Year 4 - how do we hear sounds?

Date: 20th Jan 2026 @ 9:01pm

Last week, we looked at how sounds travel from the sound source to us being able to hear it. We discovered that when a source makes a sound it creates vibrations and those vibrations travel through the particles in the air to our ears. Our ears pick up the message via the hairs in our ears which then send a message about the sound we are hearing to our brains. 

We were able to use a drum and paper then a cup of water and a tuning fork to see and feel the vibrations for ourselves.