Firat Erdam's Kite Choir

This video features an artist that created a special kind of kite to make sound.

Possible Guiding, Compelling and/or Anchoring Questions

• How can the kites make sound?
• What does turning the handle do?

Classroom Suggestions

Students could:

• Design and build homemade percussion, string and/or wind instruments.
• Experiment with tuning forks in water or paint on a speaker to show how sound waves involve the transfer of energy.
• Explain how homemade or professional instruments make sound and apply those explanations to the kites.
• Investigate energy transfer in other situations (collisions, light travel, electric currents, heat) and compare and contrast with the transfer of sound energy.
• Act out or draw models of how energy is transferred between objects, or converted between forms in a simple situation like a collision or basic appliance or electronic device.

Related Resources

PBS LearningMedia: Sound Vibrations: Grade-appropriate lesson on sound, including instructions on how to build several homemade instruments.
SciShow Kids: What is sound?: Student-friendly video that shows excellent visuals of particles vibrating when sound is produced.
PBS LearningMedia: Cyberchase | Cooking with the Sun Activity: Video from the program Cyberchase and associated activity show students how energy can be transferred from the sun to power devices on Earth.
Hevesh5: Rube Goldberg - The Trash Machine: Rube Goldberg machine that demonstrates energy transfer in collisions.