Implementing District Standards
Connecticut English Language Arts Content Standards
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Reading and Responding
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Communicating with Others
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Students will be reading current articles in the New York Times and Newsweek. These articles represent current research on how iPod headphones are showing signs that they are responsible for hearing loss in young adults. Students will interpret, analyze and evaluate these articles. They will then communicate in the form of a persuasive essay for or against listening to music too loud.
Connecticut Mathematics Content Standards
Students will be calculating wavelength, frequency and speed of sound waves. Students will also convert between amplitude and decibels.
Students will be collecting, organizing and displaying data that they gathered from a survey on how high students keep their volume at and for how long of a time period they listen to the music.
Connecticut Science Content Standards
Students will make observations about the physical world around them by observing waves that are present in their environment. Students will collect data on the properties of water waves. Students will collect data on the speed of sound, and the frequency of various musical instruments. Students will analyze the graphs of various instruments and draw conclusions about similarities and differences. Students will then collect data on the decibels measurements of their portable music devices and determine if they fall within the range of OSHA's standards for occupational noise exposure for noise induced hearing damage. With this knowledge students will determine a statistic for the average decibels and average time students listen to headphones of their portable music device.