Earthquakes and Music: Exploring Seismic-Waves and Sound-Waves
Workshop Description
This workshop summarizes a series of four in-classroom lessons that expand curriculum standards of Earth science beyond the basics with a twist that will glue any 6th grader to their seat: sound (“you call that music?!”). Learn how to use oscilloscope free-ware that captures sounds and displays waveforms. Listen and watch the oscilloscope display as various instruments, including voice, are played, and finally, experiment with rhythm using the instruments at hand to duplicate wave patterns produced by the Earth (e.g., P- S- and Surface-waves). Musicians from the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus will be on site to make sure we generate a variety of dynamic ranges, noises and frequencies.
Please join us for an exciting and informative session of hands-on learning presented by Dr. Debi Kilb, The Scripps Institution of Oceanography and members of the La Jolla Symphony.
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Images from the four distinct lessons:
1) Introduction to Earthquakes and Music
2) Recording, Magnitude and Wave Type
3) Real-time Earthquake Data
4) Listening with a Scientific Ear to the Sound of Music
Links
For more information, please visit:
Download the PowerPoint Presentation: http://www.siovizcenter.ucsd.edu/library/objects/detail.php?ID=207
List of Additional Educational Resources: http://www.siovizcenter.ucsd.edu/workshop/resources.html
Information about the SDSC TeacherTech Program: SDSC TeacherTech
Information about La Jolla Symphony and Chorus: http://www.lajollasymphony.com/
Acknowledgment
This project was coordinated by Victoria Eicher, the Outreach Director of the the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) award, EAR 0545250 to the University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography for "Community Access to Visualizations of EarthScope Focus Sites: Collaborative Construction of Virtual 3D Models."