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Overview
Students investigate the natural
and human-made worlds by observing and manipulating
materials in focused settings using simple tools to
learn to discriminate between sounds generated by dropped
objects, how sounds can be made louder or softer and
higher or lower, how sounds travel through a variety
of materials, and how sounds travel from a source to
a receiver.
Learning Expectations:
Understand the behavior of light and sound.
- Observe and compare sounds to develop discrimination ability.
- Communicate with others using a drop code.
- Learn that sound originates from a source that is vibrating
and is detected at a receiver such as the human ear.
- Understand the relationship between the pitch of a sound
and the physical properties of the sound source (i.e. length
of vibrating object, frequency of vibrations, and tension
of vibrating strings).
- Understand the relationship between the characteristics
of light and their production of heat, color, or a virtual
image.
- Compare methods to amplify sound at the source and at the
receiver.
- Observe and compare how sound travels through solids, liquids,
and air.
- Use knowledge of the physics of sound to solve simple sound
challenges.
- Acquire vocabulary associated with physics of sound and
light.
- Apply language, art, social studies, and math skills in
the context of physics of sound and light.
- Develop and refine the manipulative skills required for
investigating sound and light.
- Use scientific thinking processes to conduct investigations
and build explanations: observing, communicating, comparing,
and organizing.
- Work collaboratively and use tools and scientific
techniques to make better observations.
- Understand science
safety and follow safe practices during investigations
Assessments:
- Lab experiments
- Performance assessments
- Reflective journals
- Teacher created assessments
- End of unit projects
- Rubrics
- Checklists
- Homework/Class work
- Teacher observations
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Physics of Sound
Full Option
Science System
Module
(FOSS)
Light
Upper Moreland Science Module
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Content: Life
Science
Develop students’ understanding of
physics of sound and light.
- Sound is produced by vibrating objects. Changing
the rate of vibration varies the pitch of the sound.
- Light travels in a straight line until
it strikes and object. Light
can be reflected by a mirror, refracted by a lens, or absorbed
by an object.
- Light is energy that can manipulated to produce
heat and or color
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Internet Links:
FOSS.com
pde.state.pa.us/k12/lib/k12/scitech.doc
education-world.com/
standards/national/science/index.shtm
umtsd.org/Science_list
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