Students Ask “How Loud Is Too Loud?” in the Cafeteria

Robbins Kurak asked a few questions in the fifth grade class at Mountain Woods Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia. The Noisy Planet team sponsored by the National Hearing Impaired and other Communication Disability Association (NIDCD) visited their classes to teach students about the effects of hearing loss due to noise and how to protect their hearing. After the speech, Mr. Scrack's students began to doubt the noise level of the cafeteria of the school.

In order to satisfy their curiosity, the students measured and recorded the dinner decibel level in 2 months. They discovered what they were surprised. The decibel level of the cafeteria is 101 dB on average, which is equivalent to the noise of the subway station. Repetition of 85 dB or more or long time noise causes deafness

"This project is a good example of a causal relationship, one of the important things is that students are aware that the decibel level in the cafeteria is high and the lunch time for fifth graders to sixth graders ranges from 98 to 103 decibels I heard, "said Sculak. "We are now working to lower the students' voices at lunch to protect their hearing."

Skulrak 's fifth grade course result was published at the science science fair in their school in March. The Noisy Planet team also visited the Noisy Planet desktop monitor and the Q & A wheel and joined the science fair. Nearly 100 guests stopped learning how to turn the wheels and they can protect their hearing from various activities

Thank you to Mrs. Skulrak who listened to Noisy Planet and worked so hard to educate your classmates! Noisy Planet encourages other teachers and students to consider experiments to test ambient noise levels

If you are in the Washington Capital Region and are interested in joining the Noisy Planet team to your school please send us an e-mail!

Other achievements are also high. Is it only us that we arrive at the designated seat at lunch time? I did not talk with my friends during lunch break, so I will talk more in class. The sound of the classroom gets bigger. The teacher may give us a quiet lunch box and a lap so it will not be a big deal. You may learn to stop talking loudly in the cafeteria when you get to the designated seat. ... If you are sitting next to a person you do not know or does not like, I will not agree because you can make friends with them. Even if you are not sitting next to your best friend, you can always talk to people around you. The lunch room is not so noisy. In this case, the teacher combines all the 5th grade course at lunch break, so you can sit next to the other course. Also, we need to learn some time in life together with dislikes.

Our fifth grader can not chat at lunch break. I personally can talk about it, but when we were in the cafeteria (one teacher - about 58 children), there was a third grade class (about 60 children). I am not in the fifth grade. We are not very loud or we will not let them talk. They do not seem to know how to talk gently

Our scene was held in a large restaurant full of 5th graders. There is a group of children on the corner table, and two of them are eagerly talking about several topics. One girl has brown hair and the other one is short curly hair blonde hair. Suddenly the cafeteria staff asked silence for five minutes and tried to solve the excited young people, but the girls continued talking with both hands. - Communication is the key to building partnerships and the entire human race. When I worked at the kindergarten of the eighth elementary school, I met a lot of people. I feel that I can communicate quickly. When talking to all the people mentioned in the subject, I realized that I liked talking to other people. Since I teach junior high school students every day, I talk to my students everyday. Teachers can have various conversations with students

I send students to a cafe, a shopping mall, a hospital waiting room, or a cafeteria to sniff, and I remember the story of the real people. The student returns to the memo page of the class and reports that the actual conversation is usually more dispersed than expected. Together we choose succrement interactions, confuse it as a whole, then let students make a more interesting conversation than they gather. When they work, they should read the conversation aloud to ensure that the high-level languages ​​do not sound too artificial. Go!