Podcast of grades 6-8/Booming Sands

The sounds of wind are made from sand dunes is the focus of this podcast. A research team from California Institute of Technology(CIT), Melany Hunt and Christopher Brennon at the Dummont Dunes of Death Valley California are trying to find out why the sand dunes make a humming noise.

The CIT team says its one of thirty places around the world studying this unique sound mass. This team has been studying for about 2yrs to see why the dunes produce this acoustic sound. The sand seems to have has 2-3 layers. The water and energy mixed together makes the sound when disturbed. they set out to assimilate that sound by going on a hike at a few miles up the dune and disturb its structure to create a sound and by the looks of the podcast it worked.

For grades 6-8 it would be a nice field trip to visit a sand dune just to feel the texture of a real sand dune and hear its sound mass.