First Trimester - September-December

Waves: Light and Sound

1. How do light and sound effect you life?

2. Why is understanding cause and effect important to your life?

3. How can collaboration help you solve problems?

Planning and carrying out investigations to answer questions or test solutions to problems in K-2 builds on prior experiences and progresses to simple investigations, based on fair tests, which provide data to support explanations or design solutions. 

• Plan and conduct investigations collaboratively to produce data to serve as the basis for evidence to answer a question.

Constructing explanations and designing solutions in K-2 builds prior experiences and progresses to the use of evidence and ideas in constructing evidence-based accounts of natural phenomena and designing solutions.

Scientific Investigations use a variety of methods

• Science Investigations begin with a question
• Scientist use different ways to study the world

Wave Properties

• Sound can make matter vibrate, and vibrating matter can make sound

Electromagnetic Radiation

• Some materials allow light to pass through them, others allow only some light through and others block all the light and create a dark shadow on any surface beyond them, where the light cannot reach. Mirrors can be used to redirect a light beam. 

Information Technologies and Instrumentation

• People also use a variety of devices to communicate over long distances.

Cause and Effect

• Simple tests can be designed to gather evidence to support or refute student ideas about causes.

Influence of engineering, technology, and Science, on society and the natural world

• People depend on various technologies in their lives; human life would be very different without technology.

Vibration

Sound

Investigate 

Tuning Forks

Waves

Light

Observe

Model

Explore

Evaluate

Explain

Reflection

Shadow

Translucent

Transparent

Opaque

Learning Targets

I can.......

*Plan and carry out investigations to answer questions, produce data or test solutions. 

*Construct explanations and design solutions of natural phenomena.

*Make observations to construct an evidence based account of natural phenomena.

 *Use tools and materials provided to design a device that solves a specific problem.

• PLTW Online Resources
• PLTW Hands-On Manipulatives
• Scholastic News - The Science of Sound Jan 2019
• Science Spin
• Brain Pop
• Sound, Musical Instruments, Woodwind Instruments, Percussion Instruments
• Common Core Listening Domain
• Mystery Science

Additional Resources 

What is Sound?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-xKZKxXuu0

Sources of Light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d65mdTJaJTI

Student observation and participation

Student logs or journal entries

Rubric

First Trimester - September-December

Waves: Light and Sound

 How can students make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects can be seen only when illuminated?

Constructing explanations and designing solutions in K-2 builds prior experiences and progresses to the use of evidence and ideas in constructing evidence-based accounts of natural phenomena and designing solutions.

• Make observations (firsthand or from media) to construct an evidence-based account for natural phenomena.

Electromagnetic Radiation

• Objects can be seen if light is available to illuminate them or give off their own light.
• Some materials allow light to pass through them, others allow only some light through and others block all the light and create a dark shadow on any surface beyond them, where the light cannot reach. Mirrors can be used to redirect a light beam. 

Information Technologies and Instrumentation

• People also use a variety of devices to communicate over long distances.

Cause and Effect

• Simple tests can be designed to gather evidence to support or refute student ideas about causes.

Observe

Illumination

Investigate

*Planning and carrying out investigations to answer questions, produce data or test solutions. 

*Constructing explanations and designing solutions of natural phenomena.

*Make observations to construct an evidence based account of natural phenomena.

 *Use tools and materials provided to design a device that solves a specific problem.

* Scholastic News - The Science of Sound Jan 2019

* Brain Pop

-Sound, Musical Instruments, Woodwind Instruments, Percussion Instruments

* Common Core Listening Domain

Student observation and participation

Student logs and journal entries

First Trimester - September - December

Waves: Light and Sound

How can students plan and conduct an investigation to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in th epath of a beam of light?

Planning and carrying out investigations to answer questions or test solutions to problems in K-2 builds on prior experiences and progresses to simple investigations, based on fair tests, which provide data to support explanations or design solutions. 

• Plan and conduct investigations collaboratively to produce data to serve as the basis for evidence to answer a question.

Electromagnetic Radiation

• Some materials allow light to pass through them, others allow only some light through and others block all the light and create a dark shadow on any surface beyond them, where the light cannot reach. Mirrors can be used to redirect a light beam. 

Information Technologies and Instrumentation

• People also use a variety of devices to communicate over long distances.

Cause and Effect

• Simple tests can be designed to gather evidence to support or refute student ideas about causes.

Investigate

Observe

*Planning and carrying out investigations to answer questions, produce data or test solutions. 

*Constructing explanations and designing solutions of natural phenomena.

*Make observations to construct an evidence based account of natural phenomena.

 *Use tools and materials provided to design a device that solves a specific problem.

* Scholastic News - The Science of Sound Jan 2019

* Brain Pop

-Sound, Musical Instruments, Woodwind Instruments, Percussion Instruments

* Common Core Listening Domain

Student observations and participation

Student logs and journal entries

First Trimester - September-December

Waves: Light and Sound

How can students use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance?

Constructing explanations and designing solutions in K-2 builds prior experiences and progresses to the use of evidence and ideas in constructing evidence-based accounts of natural phenomena and designing solutions.

• Use tools and materials provided to design a device that solves a specific problem.

Information Technologies and Instrumentation

• People also use a variety of devices to communicate over long distances.

Cause and Effect

• Simple tests can be designed to gather evidence to support or refute student ideas about causes.

Influence of engineering, technology, and Science, on society and the natural world

• People depend on various technologies in their lives; human life would be very different without technology.

Investigate

Observe

Signals

*Planning and carrying out investigations to answer questions, produce data or test solutions. 

*Constructing explanations and designing solutions of natural phenomena.

*Make observations to construct an evidence based account of natural phenomena.

 *Use tools and materials provided to design a device that solves a specific problem.

* Scholastic News - The Science of Sound Jan 2019

* Brain Pop

-Sound, Musical Instruments, Woodwind Instruments, Percussion Instruments

* Common Core Listening Domain

Student observation and participation

Student logs or journal entries