Sound Vocabulary Anagram

Year 4 ScienceSound4 pages

About this worksheet

A Year 4 science vocabulary sheet on sound, matched to the England National Curriculum. A table gives eleven scrambled words, each with a clue and a letter count, such as CHTIP for how high or low a sound is. The answers run from ear and wave to medium, eardrum and vibration. Pupils then use their answers to finish three sentences about a guitar string, a school bell and empty space. To finish, they take letters from their answers to spell a mystery word, ECHO. The answer key covers all three parts.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Sound

“Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating”

The clue for TORBAIVIN and the tuning fork picture both link sound to vibration.

Sound

“Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear”

MEDIUM, TRAVEL, EAR and EARDRUM are answers, and blank 3 asks why sound cannot cross empty space.

Sound

“Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it”

The clue for VOLUME and the guitar string sentence state the link. Pupils do not find the pattern by testing.

Sound

“Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it”

Only the word PITCH is covered, through its clue. Nothing on the sheet links pitch to the object.

Sound

“Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases.”

The FAINT clue and the school bell sentence both say this.

What's inside this worksheet

Sound and Vibrations: Vocabulary Challenge

A short introduction and a picture of a tuning fork making ripples in a bowl of water.

Sound Word Scramble

Eleven scrambled words with clues: RAE, EVWA, DOSIL, CHTIP, TNAFI, MUVOLE, CURESO, LETVAR, EMDMIU, MURERAD and TORBAIVIN.

Challenge: Fill in the Blanks

Three sentences: a guitar string plucked with more force, a school bell heard from further away, and why sound cannot cross empty space.

Mystery Word Finale

Pupils collect four letters from answers 1, 3 and 4 and unscramble C H O E.

How teachers use it

Key words check

Use it at the start of the sound unit to see which words pupils already know.

Tuning fork demo

Strike a tuning fork and touch it to water before pupils start, as in the picture.

Pairs race

Pairs race to the mystery word. The first pair to say ECHO explains what one is.

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