OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: Visualizing Sound in a Medium
This simulation is a slow motion version of what you might actually see if you could see particles in a medium vibrating.
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: 6.2 Thermal Energy
This Thermal Energy unit has students investigating two ways to transfer energy into a drink: (1) the absorption of light and (2) thermal energy from the warmer air around the drink. They are then challenged to design their own drink...
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: 8.2 Sound Waves
Eighth graders develop ideas related to how sounds are produced, how they travel through media, and how they affect objects at a distance.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Greenhouse Effect in a Greenhouse
In this activity, you will use a temperature sensor to relate changes in sunlight to the temperature of the air trapped in a container.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Anti Sound Spring
Get a visual of how waves travel and interact by using a spring in this activity.
University of Wisconsin
The Why Files: Make a Rainbow
Make a rainbow by changing angles and placement of the observer, the sun, and the rain.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Reflecting Waves
This lab is designed to help students visualize the progress of a wave down a string and the way the wave pulse reflects from different boundaries.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Visible Light and Matter
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How visible light interacts with matter and classifying matter in terms of light.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Wave Interactions
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Ways that waves can interact with matter and examples.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Speed of Sound
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] What the speed of sound is and its variation in different media, and the effect of temperature on the speed of sound.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Law of Reflection
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Reflection and how it produces an image, regular and diffuse reflection and the law of reflection.
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: Ms Ps4 2: Wave Reflection, Absorption, and Transmission
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard MS-PS4-2: wave reflection, absorption, and transmission.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: Right Back at You! [Pdf]
What make a good reflective surface? In this lab, learners will investigate different surfaces with a reflectivity tester. Lesson plan includes information for students and teachers.
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: Hitting the High Notes: Pitch
A simulation that shows what happens to a sound wave when the pitch is changed.
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: Turn It Up!: Loudness
A simulation that shows what happens to a sound wave when the pitch is changed.
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: Feeling the Sound
Feel the energy of a sound wave while adjusting the loudness and pitch.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Physics for Kids: Wave Behavior
Kids learn about the behavior of waves in the science of physics including reflection, refraction, diffraction, polarization, absorption, and interference.