How We Hear Classroom Demonstration: What Is Sound?

This classroom activity demonstrates how sound travels inside our ears and then to our brain, which processes the sound. It’s a Noisy Planet. Protect Their Hearing.® is a program of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This video is part of the Noisy Planet Teacher Toolkit.

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