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Welcome back to my blog, I just wrapped up my unit, Sound, which is a part of my STEAM course, Light, Sound, & Time. In Sound, we have studied (can you guess?) SOUND! What it is, how we make it, how we perceive it, and how we can manipulate it. We also learned to appreciate the fact that we can experience sound when we went on an FE (field experience) to the Chicago Hearing Society and communicated with 4 deaf people with the help of an interpreter. We also had a sound therapist come in and give us a session, as someone who has taken sound therapy I really appreciated that we got to experience it as a class, it's a really wonderful experience. I also took a solo FE to the Little Village Discount Mall to talk to Juan R. the owner of the instrument shop inside the mall! If you want to learn more about what I studied in class follow me down this blog to my AP (action project)!
In this unit's AP we were supposed to create a diddley bow, a one-string instrument made out of a tin can, wood, a string, screws, and a battery. But, like the stubborn person I am, I didn't make a diddley bow. I at first created a circular stringed instrument with 9 strings which for a moment sounded really cool. Sadly the wood I used couldn't handle the tension that the strings needed to produce vibrations. I was heartbroken, but I moved on to create my final instrument, the chiqui!
Before you head down though I do want to talk about some science and math I didn't get to dive into in my AP. In Sound we learned that humans can, in fact, surpass the speed of sound (343 meters/second) but when you do you create a sonic boom. We also learned about the interesting relationship between sound frequency and light frequency. Humans can perceive light and sound to an extent, there is a range that is higher and one that is lower. In terms of light, there is ultraviolet (higher than our visual range) and infrared (lower than our visual range). In terms of sound, there is ultrasonic (higher than our auditory range) and infrasonic (lower than our auditory range). Ultrasonic sounds are used for things like ultrasounds, SONAR, and dog whistles. We went to see a play, called Roe, as a whole school that talked about Roe v. Wade's case that used light and sounds in a very specific manner and talked about ultrasounds! Okay, I've held you long enough go on to the AP!
To conclude, I wish I wasn't such a stubborn person sometimes. I made this project a bit harder than it should have been but I like pushing the boundaries of our AP's. I don't regret having made something different, through the frustration, difficulty, and heartbreak, I am proud of what I've made. I also had some personal difficulties in the time I was working on this AP, as such I'm very happy that I was able to produce an AP I am proud of. If I were to do this AP again I think I would've researched a bit more into how to make an instrument and not just go in fairly blindly.
I hope you enjoyed my AP and the little song I made using my DIY instrument.
Extra Citations
Wallpaper Safari. blueprint grid paper blueprint grid paper. wallpapersafari.co. n/a. Accessed Feb. 21. 2020.
Open Clipart. Guitar silhouette clip art graphics. publicdomainvectors.org. n/a. Accessed Feb. 20, 2020.
Welcome back to my blog, I just wrapped up my unit, Sound, which is a part of my STEAM course, Light, Sound, & Time. In Sound, we have studied (can you guess?) SOUND! What it is, how we make it, how we perceive it, and how we can manipulate it. We also learned to appreciate the fact that we can experience sound when we went on an FE (field experience) to the Chicago Hearing Society and communicated with 4 deaf people with the help of an interpreter. We also had a sound therapist come in and give us a session, as someone who has taken sound therapy I really appreciated that we got to experience it as a class, it's a really wonderful experience. I also took a solo FE to the Little Village Discount Mall to talk to Juan R. the owner of the instrument shop inside the mall! If you want to learn more about what I studied in class follow me down this blog to my AP (action project)!
In this unit's AP we were supposed to create a diddley bow, a one-string instrument made out of a tin can, wood, a string, screws, and a battery. But, like the stubborn person I am, I didn't make a diddley bow. I at first created a circular stringed instrument with 9 strings which for a moment sounded really cool. Sadly the wood I used couldn't handle the tension that the strings needed to produce vibrations. I was heartbroken, but I moved on to create my final instrument, the chiqui!
Before you head down though I do want to talk about some science and math I didn't get to dive into in my AP. In Sound we learned that humans can, in fact, surpass the speed of sound (343 meters/second) but when you do you create a sonic boom. We also learned about the interesting relationship between sound frequency and light frequency. Humans can perceive light and sound to an extent, there is a range that is higher and one that is lower. In terms of light, there is ultraviolet (higher than our visual range) and infrared (lower than our visual range). In terms of sound, there is ultrasonic (higher than our auditory range) and infrasonic (lower than our auditory range). Ultrasonic sounds are used for things like ultrasounds, SONAR, and dog whistles. We went to see a play, called Roe, as a whole school that talked about Roe v. Wade's case that used light and sounds in a very specific manner and talked about ultrasounds! Okay, I've held you long enough go on to the AP!
To conclude, I wish I wasn't such a stubborn person sometimes. I made this project a bit harder than it should have been but I like pushing the boundaries of our AP's. I don't regret having made something different, through the frustration, difficulty, and heartbreak, I am proud of what I've made. I also had some personal difficulties in the time I was working on this AP, as such I'm very happy that I was able to produce an AP I am proud of. If I were to do this AP again I think I would've researched a bit more into how to make an instrument and not just go in fairly blindly.
I hope you enjoyed my AP and the little song I made using my DIY instrument.
Extra Citations
Wallpaper Safari. blueprint grid paper blueprint grid paper. wallpapersafari.co. n/a. Accessed Feb. 21. 2020.
Open Clipart. Guitar silhouette clip art graphics. publicdomainvectors.org. n/a. Accessed Feb. 20, 2020.
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