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In this activity, learners create a traditional Mexican noisemaker (a matraca) using cardboard, craft sticks, and a wooden dowel.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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Make your own simple speaker so you can listen to your favorite radio station. Just wind a coil, attach it to a piece of cardboard or Styrofoam, hold a magnet nearby, and listen.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners experiment with their voices and noisemakers to understand the connections between vibrations and the sounds created by those vibrations.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 4 - 6 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners construct a playable kazoo from inexpensive materials. They will experience how vibration creates sound waves and music.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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Build a phonograph record player using a cactus needle, a record, LEGOs gear box, and a piece of paper! This activity uses a Pico Cricket to turn the motor.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 8 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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With a straw, two craft sticks, and some rubber bands, construct a noisemaker called a Sound Sandwich and explore how vibration produces sound.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, you'll use a straw, a water bottle and a paper tube to make an instrument that's very much like a saxophone.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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From this How To slide show, you create an Audio Tape Bow that can play distorted audio sounds by running it across a tape head.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - adult 45 to 60 minutes
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Things that are different sizes and stiffness vibrate differently, and in this Exploratorium Science Snack, you'll see how rings of various diameters react to vibration and external forces.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 8 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this quick and easy activity, learners build an air cannon "drum" and see what happens when they "shoot" puffs of air at different targets.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 8 - 14 10 to 30 minutes