Students learn about earbuds including how they damage your ears causing hearing loss and how to use them the correct way.Chances are all you know about earbuds is that they're easy to carry around and they sound good. Earbuds are useful little devices as long as they're used at low volumes. But they're basically a pair of tiny speakers that you wear inside your ears. And loud music playing that close to your eardrum can cause permanent hearing loss.

Students learn the basic anatomy of the ear, as well as, how to protect your ears. Knowing how your ears work and what things can affect them will help you better understand your amazing ears and the job they do.

This resource is a short quiz for students to test their knowledge of the ears.

This lesson plan includes discussion questions and activities that will help students understand their sense of hearing and learn how to protect their ears.

This lesson will introduce young people to the structure of their ears and how they work through a diagram and by building a model ear drum. The youth will play a listening game to learn more about their hearing and how important it is to keep their ears healthy.

Students will understand the structure of their ears and how they work through a diagram and build a model ear drum. The youth will play a listening game to learn more about their hearing and how important it is to keep their ears healthy.

In this resource students will learn how certain sounds can hurt and damage their ears.

This video resource was developed by Neuroscience students of Wake Forest University. This video is designed for middle school about the parts of the ear.

This resource helps students understand their ears and the importance of protecting their hearing.

This resource is a short quiz for students to test their knowledge of the ears.

This lesson begins on page 3 of the pdf document. In this lesson, students will identify ways to protect their ears from hearing loss and create a poster for awareness of noise induced hearing loss.

This video resource was developed by Neuroscience students of Wake Forest University.  This video is designed for middle school students. It describes how vision works.