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K12 Reader

Waves and Currents

For Students 6th - 8th
Waves, currents, crests, and troughs. Using information provided in an article about waves and currents, readers define terms used to describe how energy travels.
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Curated OER

HW Unit 10:7-Light

For Students 9th - 12th
In this light worksheet, students answer twenty six questions about sound and light and how they both travel. They also answer questions about different types of waves in the electromagnetic spectrum such as radio waves, visible light,...
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Curated OER

Understanding Waves

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the physical properties of waves to explore the word crest and trough. They use toys to study waves in air, water and light.
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Wavelengths of Light

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Explore physical science by participating in a visual spectrum experiments. Budding scientists identify the colors in the color spectrum and view the colors in class by utilizing cellophane, flash lights, and other arts and crafts...
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Curated OER

How Does Sound Travel As Waves?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders participate in a number of activities designed to increase their understanding of how sound is generated and how it travels.
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Sound Busters

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders engage in a study of sound pollution at their school. After a class discussion on what noise pollution is, learners are asked if they think there are areas of their school or community where noise pollution is a problem....
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Sound

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore and examine the basic properties of sound. In pairs, they speak through a balloon and listen to the sound vibrations, and listen to a ticking clock or watch through a variety of materials and identify the...
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Discovery Education

Sonar & Echolocation

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A well-designed, comprehensive, and attractive slide show supports direct instruction on how sonar and echolocation work. Contained within the slides are links to interactive websites and instructions for using apps on a mobile device to...
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Assessment
Curated OER

Take-Home Midterm Exam #3

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
The University of Hawaii has published a vast collection of midterm and final exams for their Physics 152 course. This particular exam offers a variety of assessment methods, and covers the topic of electromagnetic radiation....
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Curated OER

Seeing Sound & Sonar

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students make inferences based on different sounds that they hear. In this inferences lesson plan, students will hear sounds of different objects and describe the sounds based on what they hear. They will answer various questions about...
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Curated OER

Waves

For Students 9th - 12th
In this waves activity, students read about the different types of waves and how the speed of waves is calculated. Then students complete 5 matching, 8 fill in the blank, and 9 short answer questions.
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Waves

For Students 9th - 12th
In this waves worksheet, students read about harmonic and linear motion in waves as well as the two types of waves. They match 5 terms to their definitions about the structure of waves, they solve for the wavelength, frequency and...
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Curated OER

Waves Interference

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students identify different wave types and their characteristics.  In this wave instructional activity students complete activities by activating tuning forks and interpreting data. 
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Understanding Waves

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students perform 3 hands-on activities to help them explain the terms "crest" and "trough" as related to sound, water, and light waves. All three waves types have troughs and crests. The activities use toys to demonstrate the properties...
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Curated OER

Radiation From Space

For Students 5th - 12th
In this space worksheet, students will review different aspects of light, sound, and radio waves in space and the use of different types of telescopes. This worksheet has 17 fill in the blank statements.
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Curated OER

Sound Waves Simulation Worksheet

For Students 5th - 6th
In this sound wave worksheet, students go to http://phet.colorado.edu/new/simulations/sims.php?sim=Sound and run the simulation to complete 28 short answer question.
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Curated OER

Sound Energy

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders understand properties and behavior of heat, light, and sound. They describe the production of sound in terms of vibration of objects that create vibrations in other materials. Students describe how sound is made from...
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Curated OER

Making Waves, Making Music, Making Noise

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students construct "talking cans" and instruments to explain how vibration of objects produces various sounds.
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Curated OER

Electromagnetic and Physical Waves

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare and contrast electromagnetic and physical waves. In this wave lesson plan, students discover that all waves reflect, refract, and diffract energy. Students work in small groups to experiment with waves and evaluate the...
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Curated OER

Strange Sounds

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students investigate sound as a form of energy. In this energy, forces, and sound lesson plan, students explore how different sounds may be made as they make a variety of materials vibrate. Students observe the effects of vibrations and...
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Mr. E. Science

Sound

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Since light travels faster than sound, some people may appear bright until you hear them speak. The presentation covers what sound is, how fast it travels in various mediums, properties of sound, hearing, and the parts of the human ear.  
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University of Southern California

Wave Erosion Lab

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Using a stream table, erosion enthusiasts examine how the density of sediment and how the slope of land contribute to the amount moved by waves. You will not be able to use this entire resource as is; there are teachers' names and...
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Organizer
Curated OER

Sound, Heat, and Light

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this sound, heat, and light worksheet, students fill in a KWL chart for what they know, what they want to know, and what they learned about sound, heat, and light. Students complete 3 sections in the graphic organizer.
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Curated OER

What Really Matters When it Comes to Sound?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars conduct experiments to learn about sound wave vibrations in objects and pitch. Students test how varying the volume of water in a vessel changes frequency and pitch.

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