Students will learn to apply the principles and concepts associated with energy and the transfer of energy in an engineering context through the designing and making of a musical instrument. The students must choose from a variety of supplies presented to them to make an instrument capable of producing three different tones. After the accomplishment of the design, students must explain the energy transfer mechanism in sufficient detail and describe how they could make their instruments better.

Concepts

energy transfer, engineering, tone, vibration, stem, energy

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Additional Tags

integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, acoustic engineering, musical instrument making

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)