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To tune into our Inquiry we completed a sound scape of sounds around our school. We then made some decisions about how we could organise these sounds in a scientific manner. These were the four ways the class decided that sounds could be grouped We created wordles from these ideas.
 * 1) grouped as solids liquids and gases that were creating sounds.
 * 2) living and non-living.
 * 3) man-made and natural
 * 4) loud and soft

 We have been learning about sound waves and how they are received by an ear.

We have had Stephen Chittock a local builder and property developer explain to us how commercial buildings are built so that it has sound insulation properties. There are different ways that noisy areas can have there sound contained so that quiet areas are kept quiet. The walls can be built with spaces between them and special bats. Ceilings and floors can be made of different materials so that sound does not travel through them. Local councils have building codes that guide building designers for different sound requirements.

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