Adaptive Perseverance: Students will experiment with light and sound, learning from trial and error.
Learner’s Mindset: Encourage exploration of how light and sound waves contribute to understanding our world.
Critical Thinking: Analyze how materials interact with light and sound; design experiments to test these interactions.
Communication: Use light and sound waves in creative ways to convey messages during experiments.
Collaboration: Work in teams to discuss and conduct experiments, understanding the importance of diverse ideas in problem-solving.
How do different materials affect the way light travels or sound is heard?
What happens when light waves meet an object?
How can we use sound waves to communicate information?
Modeling
Constructing Explanations
NGSS 1-PS4 Waves: Light and Sound
1-PS4-1. Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
1-PS4-2. Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects can be seen only when illuminated.
1-PS4-3. Plan and conduct an investigation to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.
1-PS4-4. Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.*
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