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Students will identify wave terminology and/or characteristics while participating in a brainstorming activity.
Students will indicate wave terminology on a guided notes graphic organizer while listening to the teacher lecture and watching a short film.
Students will explain how waves carry energy after they have completed internet research with a group and explain how different waves
propagate on a graphic organizer.
Students will analyze the impact of waves on their daily lives while working with a partner and expressing their ideas on a poster.
Students will be introduced to mathematical interdependency of wavelength, frequency, and speed when the teacher demonstrates multiple
examples and students will apply information to additional problems.
Unit Summary:
This unit is an introduction to the physics of waves. Basic wave terminology and the difference in wave motion will be investigated.
Students will examine internet information regarding waves and how different types of waves affect our lives. They will also be
introduced to the mathematical interdependency of wavelength, frequency, and speed. This introduction will include a wide variety of
wave information, including sound, light, and physical waves.
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Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level:
Brainstorming - What
different types of waves
affect your life?
Formative:
Graphic Organizer - Wave vocabulary & video info
Webercise - groups researching wave information
Quiz - wave vocabulary
Calculations - Wave frequency, wavelength, and speed
Summative:
Essay - 3 to 4 paragraphs on 5 waves and how
they impact their lives (rubric).
Poster Project Scoring Guide - wave types, wave
media, and real life examples.
Lesson 1
Student Learning Objective:
Acceptable Evidence:
1.
2.
Instructional
Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction
Lesson Activities:
1. Students will participate in a brainstorming activity to name
different kinds of waves that affect them.
2. Students listen to teacher lecture on how waves are initiated and
travel.
3. Students fill out a worksheet while listening to teacher lecture and
watching a short video on standing waves.
4. Students engage in classroom discussion regarding wave terms
from this lesson and other terms they may have used outside of
class.
5. Students take a vocabulary quiz.
Lesson 2
Student Learning Objective:
Acceptable Evidence:
1.
2.
Instructional
Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction
Lesson Activities:
1.
2.
Lesson 3
Student Learning Objective:
Acceptable Evidence:
1.
2.
3.
Instructional
Strategies:
Lesson Activities:
1.
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction
2.
3.
4.
5.
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Unit Resources:
Incredible Waves http://incrediblewaves.weebly.com
The following resources are buttons on the Incredible Waves website listed above.
(The Science of Surfing) http://www.explainthatstuff.com/surfingscience.html
(Sound) http://www.explainthatstuff.com/sound.html
(Waves as Energy Transfer) http://sciencelearn.org.nz/Science-Stories/Tsunamis-and-Surf/Waves-as-energy-transfer
(Electromagnetic Spectrum) http://www.explainthatstuff.com/electromagnetic-spectrum.html
(Light) http://www.explainthatstuff.com/light.html
Useful Websites:
The following websites are included on the Unit Resources page of the Incredible Waves website with additional information about what to expect on each site.
(Physics Girl) http://youtu.be/wYoxOJDrZzw
(Doc Physics standing wave harmonics)
http://youtu.be/RUpjYDteYcg
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