Vocab: Wave, Medium, Longitudinal Wave, Transverse Wave, Mechanical Wave, Eletromagnetic Wave, Amplitude, Wavelength, Wave Period, Requency, Hertz, Wavefront, & Wave Speed
Day 1: Read/Notes then demonstrate the different types of waves: Longitudinal wave, Transverse waves using slinkys to demonstrate this. Read/Notes about "What are the type of waves: Mechanical, & Electromagnetic"
Day 2: Create a Diagram showing: Amplitude, Wavelength, Frequency and explain how we can use this information to classify a wave using the PowerPoint.
Day 3: Waves Task Card activity.
Day 4: Lab stations: Read It, Assess It, Watch It, and Illustrate It
Day 4 Extra: Watch Bill Nye Video: Waves and Worksheet
Day 1: PowerPoint
Day 2: Diagram
Day 3: Task Cards and Answer Sheet
Day 4: Wave Text and Modified Lab Stations
Extra: Bill Nye Video and Worksheet
Day 5: Measuring Speed of Waves
PPT to discuss how waves travel through mediums. Have students take notes on the PPT in their notebook. Watch video and read text to discuss how waves move at different speeds through different mediums and Assessment WS.
Day 6 OPTIONAL: Wave speed Lab
Day 5/6: Text and Video
Vocab: Radiation, Infrared, Ultraviolet, Electromagnetic Spectrum
Day 7: Read about the Electromagnetic Spectrum and view the PowerPoint to introduce the ideas. Have students use EM diagram with wavelengths to label types of waves and to label Visible Light.
Day 8: Use the EM Cards along with the book to fill in the Sketch Notes about the EM spectrum.
Day 9/10: Wave Lab Stations
Day 11: Quiz and Create EM Spectrum Foldable
Day 7: PowerPoint and Diagram
Day 8: Card Sort and Sketch Notes
Day 9/10: Stations
Day 11: Foldable
Vocab: Transparent, Translucent, Opaque, Absorption, Reflection, Refraction, & Scattering
Day 12: Using the book students will read and take Cornell Notes about how light behaves.
Day 13: Gallery Walk about how light behaves or Task Cards.
Day 14: Use color wheel to demonstrate how we see white light and colors. Then use prisms to try and separate light outside. Finally show Bill Nye Light and Color.
Day 15: Waves through Mediums: Read Text, Use interactive site, Video and Create Foldable
Day 12: Cornell Notes and Activity
Day 13: Bill Nye and Worksheet
Day 14: Task Cards OR Gallery Walk
Day 15-16: Review and Crossword
Day 17: Review Game
Day 18: Test
Day 16-17: Review and Crossword
Day 18: Review Game