Waves: Light & Sound
Suggested Timeframe: Winter (Jan-Mar)
Unit description: Students explore the concept of what makes sound, how we use light, and how both can be used in a variety of communication devices.
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Standards
Essential Questions and Big Ideas
- How do we use sound in everyday life?
- Sound can make matter vibrate, and vibrating matter can make sound. (1-PS4-1)
- People also use a variety of devices to communicate (send and receive information) over long distances. (1-PS4-4)
- Why is light important to us?
- Objects can be seen if light is available to illuminate them or if they give off their own light. (1-PS4-2)
- Some materials allow light to pass through them, others allow only some light through and others block all the light and create a dark shadow on any surface beyond them, where the light cannot reach. Mirrors can be used to redirect a light beam. (1-PS4-3)
Prerequisite Skills/Science & Engineering Practices:
Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence and/or to make a determination, make observations to construct an evidence-based explanation, use tools and materials to build a device with a purpose
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