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| Our third STEM presentation brought Ricki Sonnenberg to TEAM 6-4 to share with us what it is she does: Audiology. Students learned that an audiologist is someone who diagnoses and treats people with hearing issues. She shared several hands on demonstrations involving some of the simpler technology she uses to diagnose hearing issues such as a tuning fork and an IPhone. (See pictures below.) |
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ReplyDeleteMany thanks to Aly's mom for her exciting and interactive presentation. I learned that the tiny hairs that give you hearing never grow back when they are damaged!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for coming, I loved your presentation! It was very amazing! The model and diagrams that you brought in were very detailed and informative, and the activities that we did were very fun. I also never knew that once your hearing is damaged, it can't come back. And that you can damage one pitch, of frequency, but not all of them, because of the tiny hairs in your ear that only can transmit one sound. The tuning fork helps know if you have hearing problems from infections or something else; if you here it louder in the back or the front. Thanks again for coming, I really loved learning all about audiology!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for coming to our class and talking to us about audiology! It was cool learning about what you do as an audiologist and how the ear works. It was cool how the rice moved when you made sound near of above it. I never knew that there are tiny hairs in the cochlea that help you hear noises. Once again, thank you very much for coming!!
ReplyDelete- Kevin Lin
Hi Kevin,
DeleteI find it really interesting that the eardrum or tympanic membrane can transmit different frequencies.
Thank you Ms. Sonnenberg for coming in to our class and teaching us about your job as an audiologist! I never know that when you lose balance when you are dizzy that it is related to your ears. I think that it is really surprising that people use Q-Tips even though they can be bad for your ears. I wonder why people use headphones that can damage your ears and make you deaf for life. I didn't know that there are tiny hairs in your ears that give you hearing. I learned so much about the things you do as an audiologist and thank you again for coming to our class and teaching us about what you do
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Javid
Hi Javid,
DeleteQ-tips only serve to impact or push the wax or cerumen further into your ear canals.
Hi Javid,
DeleteThe medical term for ear wax is cerumen.
Mom thank you so much for coming in.
ReplyDeleteYou did an amazing presentation!
I learned a lot more about audiology that I didn't know before. Before you came in I didn't know much about tuning forks but I know know what it is and does. I know also know that when your hearing is stronger in the back something is wrong. Thank you so very very much!
Aly Sonnenberg
Hi Aly, you are so welcome. I loved being in your class.
DeleteI dealt with enough ear infections with you and your brothers.
You are correct Aly. If the bone conduction (back) is better than the air conduction (front, then the patient has a problem in the middle ear. This can usually be treated either with medicine or surgery.
DeleteWow! Your presentation was wonderful! You taught us so many things that I never knew! Like showing us what happens when you have an ear infection, what happens when your ear becomes damaged, and more! The items you brought with you were awesome as well! Like the ear trumpet and the tuning fork. Your presentation made me realize how interesting audiology really is!
ReplyDelete-Bobby
Hi Bobby,
DeleteYou can do a whole hearing test using different tuning forks, and then you would know on a basic level, how someone hears at different frequencies.
Thanks for coming. It was cool to learn about audiology and I learned that hearing can't return since the part of the ear gets damaged.
ReplyDelete-Donald
Hi Donald,
DeleteTake good care of your hearing, because once it is gone, you cannot get it back.
Hi sorry i missed your presentation . I wish I could have come. But thank you for coming to our classroom
ReplyDeleteHi Kenzie,
DeleteI would be happy to tell you whatever you need to know. Sorry you missed it.
Thanks a million for coming. I learned a lot about audiology, including what the meaning of the word was. I always thought that audiologists were either scientists in the fields of speech or autism. You obviously spent a lot of time and effort working on this project. It's difficult to remember such a long speech. I never knew that there was an outer, inner, or middle ear. I thought that the ear was just the part on the outside and the eardrum. I once heard about the anvil, stirrup, and hammer in a medical book but I never knew their actual names until now. Is the cochlea really filled with hair or are those filaments really just hypersensitive nerve chains? Is the liquid inside the cochlea water or plasma? Sometimes when my mom uses q-tips she tells me that you have to be careful or it will break your eardrum. Is it really that delicate? I liked the big ear trumpet that you brought in. I wonder what would happen if I screamed into it? would my eardrums break or would my brain detonate? That tuning fork has a really high pitch. What would happen if it were even higher? The part with the moving rice was very exciting, I never knew that a certain pitch could move certain objects. The posters you put up were very informative. I never knew the ear was surrounded by porous bone! Thank you so much for coming!!
ReplyDeleteHi,
DeleteThe eardrum or tympanic membrane is very delicate. You have to be careful that you don't damage it, either with a Q-tip or with an ear infection.
The hair cells in the cochlea are bathed in a special fluid called endolymph.
If you screamed into the ear trumpet you may get a headache, but probably no permanent damage may result.
The tuning fork that I used was a 512, which corresponds to 500Hz, which is relatively low pitched.
Thanks for you terrific comments.
thanks so much for coming i really liked your presentation. i learned a lot more about ears.i liked how you did that experiment when you put rice on pot with saran wrap and make noise to make it vibrate. i also liked the experiment with the keep-time thing( i forgot what it's called!) thanks again for coming!
ReplyDeletesuki
The experiment that we did showed that it is better to have two ears. This aids in localization- telling the direction of the sound.
DeleteMs.s I learned a lot from the examples you gave.And I think it was interesting that you also told us about what affects certain parts of our ears.I have a question:What happens when you have an ear infection and your music is up loud?And if you have water in your ear and it causes an ear infection what type of things do you do so that the person does not have an affection again?I think that the parts of the ear are complicated but very interesting to know.I think that the models and the diagrams taught us a lot and now we now about a few parts of the ear.I have another question:How does the 2 little things in our ear that has water in it not pop?I think the tuning fork is cool and interactive.I was really surprised when I learned about the tuning fork and what it does.When you said that you can damage your ears when you put the volume high on earbuds and when you wear ear phones that protects your ear I was surprised.I think that overall I enjoyed the visit to learn about audiology and I really appreciate it, because you took out time to come over.Thanks again-Mahajah
ReplyDeleteHi Mahajah,
DeleteWhen you have an ear infection and there is fluid behind your eardrum, your hearing will be affected. It will be like you are hearing under water. Normal conversation and sounds will not be loud enough for you. You will want to turn your music up, so that you can hear it. Don't turn your music up too high, because you don't want to damage your hearing. Rather go to a Doctor and get your ear infection treated.
Water in your ear, e.g. from swimming is not likely to cause an ear infection. It is just uncomfortable. You get an ear infection if fluid collects behind the eardrum and it cannot drain. The eustachian tube connects your middle ear to the back of your throat. When it becomes blocked, your ear feels blocked. If this continues for a while, fluid can collect and become infected. To try and clear your ear, you can hold your nose and blow or try to swallow.
I hope that this answers your question.
Thank you so much for coming to the class I thought It was really interesting.It was also really cool with the rice and bowl exampling the ear drum,I tried It.I have never seen the those parts in the ear,so thank you for coming to our class to teach us about your stem carrer
ReplyDelete-Lexi F.
Hi Lexi,
DeleteI hope that you saw that different frequencies or pitches will make the rice grains move.
I noticed that it works best with low sounds. I have a question."What happenes in your ear when tere is a ear infection."
Delete-Lexi F.
I appreciate that you took your time to educate us. I learned a lot and so did my family. It was a great presentation. Very learnable knowledge in it. Thanks again!
ReplyDelete-Ronit
Thanks Ronit. I assume that you shared what you learned with your family.
Deletei loved the presentation
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome. I hope that you learned a lot.
DeleteThank you so much for teaching us about your job! I think audiology is really cool! I learned so much from you, like how the eardrum works and about the tuning fork. Your presentation was very detailed. Thanks again!
ReplyDelete~Bella E.
Audiology is a really interesting profession. It combines science with the desire to help people.
DeleteI think it is really cool that you can use the tuning fork to see if you have an ear infection! Also can someone get an ear infection when they are deaf? I also found it very interesting that to make the grains of rice move, you would have to reach a pitch low enough to make the rice vibrate. It was unspeakably fun learning about the ear and its functions! Thank you so much Ms. Sonnenberg!
ReplyDeleteIf someone is deaf because of nerve deafness (the hair cells in the cochlea are damaged), their middle ear will likely be normal and intact. They can definitely get an ear infection. Fluid may collect behind the eardrum. Inner ear deafness is not related to problems with the middle ear.
DeleteGreat question.
Thanks so much for coming in. I learned a lot about the parts of my ear and how sound travels threw my ear!!
ReplyDelete-Donya
You are welcome. Sound and hearing are very interesting topics.
DeleteThank you.Sorry i missed it! Your stem career looked really cool! Id like to learn more about it! Thanks again for coming to our classroom , and showing us your stem career! - Kenzie M
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for coming to our class. I really learned allot!!!
ReplyDelete-Donya
Thank you so much for coming! I really liked the part when we did the rice and the rice moved! I really hope you can come again sometime!
ReplyDelete-Daniel D.
Thanks Daniel. I hope that you learned a lot. Those were really great questions that you asked and observations that you made when we were chatting before the presentation.
DeleteThank you so much for coming to our class and teaching us about your job! It was very cool to learn about how your ear works and do those fun activities. The presentation was very informative with those diagrams and models. I really liked that activity with the tuning fork to test someones hearing and the activity in which you brought the sound of the pendulum closer to someone and see how far they can hear it from. I learned so much interesting things about audiology. Thanks again for coming!
ReplyDelete-Kaveri Bhargava
Thanks Kaveri.
DeleteIt so important that we have two functioning ears for sound localization.
Thank you so much for coming it was very interesting to learn about audiology. It was very cool to learn that you can test someones hearing with a tuning fork. I also thought it was very cool when you tested peoples hearing right in our class, it was interesting to see how you do it. Thank you so much for coming in.
ReplyDeleteIsabelle
Unfortunately, I couldn't bring an audiometer into the classroom and show you how a real hearing test is done.
DeleteThank you so much for coming in and telling us about your job I thought your presentation was very informative. I also liked it because you brought in some things that we could use.
ReplyDelete-Drew Riseberg
Thank you so much for coming into our classroom to talk I about audiology. My favorite part was when you and a couple other students were making low and loud itched sounds, so you could make the white tiny things move around on the cooking bowl. Something I know, that I didn't know before is that you actually hear things from the back of ear. I also didn't know that when you her yourself on a video, that is how people hear you. Thanks again for coming in!
ReplyDelete-Maddy Epstein
It ias important to remember that you hear via two mechanisms - air conduction and bone conduction.
DeleteThank you for taking your time and coming into our class. Do you know any other tricks for getting your ear unclogged?
ReplyDelete-Max
Just hold your nose and blow. That is called the Valsalva Maneuver.
DeleteYou can also try to chew gum and swallow hard.
Thank you for coming into our class! I learned a lot about audiology and I liked that you used the tuning fork and your phone to do various hearing test. I thought it was interesting that many of the volunteers who had the test with the tuning fork heard the noise stronger in their right ear. I didn't know very much about how the ear worked or how you can tell if your hearing is normal before your presentation, and after you came in everything made much more sense. I really enjoyed the presentation.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good observation. It could also have been the way I was standing that was favoring the right ear. Tuning forks are a very basic form of testing. It is far more accurate to do an audiogram.
DeleteThank you for coming it was really fun looking at all hearing experiments.
ReplyDeleteAly's mom,
ReplyDeleteThank you for teaching us about your job. You taught us a lot about the ear. Like how the ear drum vibrates when you hear something. The things you brought in were fun and interesting.
- Colin
You are welcome Colin. I hope that you learned a lot.
DeleteThank you so much! One thing I never knew is that if you damage your hearing, it can never come back. hopefully I never damage my hearing, I will always want it. I also loved the little expirements we did, they really helped me get a better perspective of how hearing works.
ReplyDeleteThanks again,
Ella P.
Remember don't blast your ears with very loud sounds. You don't want to cause permanent damage.
DeleteThank you sk much for coming and giving a whole new outlook on audiology. I thought your presentation was very informative and I really liked all the hands on things we got to do and was glad I got to participate. I will defenitely think of audiology as a future career for me to pursue. Thanks so much!
ReplyDelete-Jack
Thanks for being a participant.
DeleteThank you so much for coming in! It was SO cool how you showed us the ear trumpets and how noise can move rice! I didn't know that earbuds can damage your hearing! Thanks again!
ReplyDelete- Darby
Ear buds may damage your hearing if you really crank up the volume and blast your ears with noise over a long period of time. Keep the volume down.
DeleteDear Ms. Sonnenberg: Thank you for coming to our classroom. I appreciate that you spent your time with us, and brought some equipment to show us. Your job sounds very interesting especially the thing with the grain of rice. Thanks again. Sincerely, Terrence
ReplyDeleteThank you for coming in.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that there were many part to an ear.
It was cool how you can test your ears woth a tuning fork.
Ella s
The ear is a very compilcated structure. The parts are so tiny that you would need a very powerful microscope to see the inner ear especially.
DeleteThank you so very much for coming into our classroom to teach us about the ear, now I'll think twice before using ear buds. Thanks for the tip (not a q-tip!) I've never known so much about the ear!
ReplyDeleteby Ben.
You are welcome Ben. I like your pun.
DeleteThank you so much for teaching us about hearing. Before you came, I had a completely different the theory of how hearing works. I also learned that there are bones inside your skull! I also have a question for you. Why do some other mammals hear better than humans? Thank you for everything.
ReplyDeleteChris T
Other mammals have super acute hearing and can hear much higher frequencies than humans do. Dogs for example hear higher frequencies than human beings. Animals need super acute hearing to protect themselves and some need it to hunt their prey.
DeleteThank you for coming to our class and teaching us about Audiology. It was really interesting to learn about all the things that a Audiologist does. It was really fun! Thank you for coming! Sorry this is really late.
ReplyDelete-Samantha
Thank you for coming and teaching us about audiology. I think it was really interesting how you first joined the college because of your friend, but your friend decided not to continue and you did. I also like how you put up all the posters about the human ear. And I liked the demonstration with the rice on the Saran wrap.
ReplyDeleteIt is strange how people land up where they do. before I started Audiology, I had no idea that I would even like it.
DeleteThank you so much for coming to our class and presenting your job as an audiologist, I really enjoyed learning about the ear and all the other things,
ReplyDeleteAgain,
Thank you for coming,
~Keren Bobilev~
You are welcome. I hope that you learned a lot.
DeleteThank you so much for coming in. I really enjoyed your presentation. I think your job is really cool and I hope you come in again!
ReplyDelete-May B.
Thank you for coming to teach us about audiology and teaching us about your ear. i really liked the activity of when you had a metal bowl covered in saran wrap. on top was a bit of rice and when you blew the rice,it would move.It was very interesting. i hoped you enjoyed teaching us about audiology.
ReplyDeleteIm sorry i missed your presentation.I saw the end of it and i loved it. When i grow up i will think of your job and see if it is something i want to do.
ReplyDeleteDear Mrs. Sonneburg,
ReplyDeleteThank you for coming to tell us about your job and teaching us about what you do everyday at work. I thought it was really cool when you showed us the hearing test on Jack and Dennis.
Aaron