Educator Guide: Saving Notre Dame’s Sound

People watch as a fire engulfs Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral in April 2019 (shown). Now, as the cathedral is rebuilt, researchers are using principles of physics to understand and protect the medieval church’s acoustics.
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About this guide
This guide, based on the Science News article “Saving Notre Dame’s sound,” asks students to explore how scientists resurrect the acoustics of historic places, consider factors that affect how sound behaves to design a room with specific sound requirements, and measure and compare how sound changes in different environments.
This Guide Includes:
Designing soundscapes
A world of acoustics
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