Family Science Night
On April 13, 2010, the Exploratorium came to Jose Ortega to lead our annual Family Science Night. This year the topic was the science of sound. The students learned about sound waves, vibration, pitch, and amplification. We talked through balloons, listened to giant tuning forks (bicycle forks), made straws whistle at different pitches by making them different lengths, made sound sandwiches and sound spinners with vibrating rubber bands, created cuícas out of plastic cups and string, and built saxophone style membraneophones. It was a fun and musical science night!
