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Curated OER

Hello, Anybody Out There?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students understand that people believe there may be life in other solar systems. In this communication with other solar systems lesson, students analyze our planet and write things they want to communicate to other solar systems.
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Curated OER

Conserving Energy Resources

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders research on energy conversion. After they have researched several types of energy resources, teams of two to four create posters which depict how these resources can be conserved.
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Curated OER

Magnetic Discovery Bottle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine how to conduct simple investigations and use simple equipment to gather data.  In this magnet instructional activity students decide what types of objects are attracted to magnets. 
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Curated OER

The Rumblin' Road

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students determine the distance to a lightning strike. They complete a number of examples that determine the distance to a thunderstorm or lightning strike. They focus on safety during a thunderstorm.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Communicating With Light and Sound: Fire!

For Teachers K - 1st
Sound the alarm! Fire alarms and fire trucks are perfect examples of communicating with light and sound. Students will begin to understand the engineering principles behind why fire alarms and fire engines use both light and sound to...
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Unit Plan
Utah State Office of Education

Utah Science: Properties and Behaviors of Heat, Light and Sound

For Students 3rd - 8th
How can scientists lump heat, light and sound together when investigating properties and behaviors? This learning module will address that question through a series of activities.
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Why Do Scientists Think That Light and Sound Are Waves?

For Students 9th - 10th
Light travels as transverse waves and can travel through a vacuum. Sound travels as longitudinal waves and needs to travel through a solid, liquid or gas. Read about the properties of light and of sound, and learn the differences between...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Energy, Light and Sound: Sound

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short quiz on how sound travels in waves, its properties, and how to measure it.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Waves Performance Assessment Part 1

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students will use a variety of objects to participate in a partner activity and communicate using light and sound waves. Resources include a video, pictures and videos of the lesson in action, and examples of student work.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Properties of Waves

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this direct instruction lesson, learners draw sketches in their science notebooks in order to make sense of wave properties. Resources include a slideshow presentation on the properties of waves and multiple examples of student work.
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Energy, Light and Sound: Light

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short quiz on the basic concepts and vocabulary for understanding light energy.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: What Is a Wave?

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive activity adapted from the University of Utah's ASPIRE Lab provides an overview of the characteristics and properties of various types of waves, including light waves, sound waves, and water waves.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Light & Sound, Light Reflection Relay

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this exploration, students will investigate how light reflects off smooth surfaces, learn about angles of reflection, and apply that knowledge in a relay experiment.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Waves Performance Assessment Part 2

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students will use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance. Resources included are videos of the instructional activity in action, a student...
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Article
Creative Science Centre

Creative Science Centre: Mini Light Beam Receiver

For Students 9th - 10th
A very simple device to convert light into sound can be made by wiring a solar cell directly to headphones (or an earpiece). The solar cell converts light into electricity and the headphones convert electricity into sound. The limitation...
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sound and Light

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The Sound and Light unit provides students with an understanding of sound and light waves through the theme of the "Sunken Treasure," a continuous story line throughout the lessons. In Lessons 1-5, students learn about sound, and in...
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Interactive
Other

Open School Bc: Sound and Light

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Sound and Light interactive investigates these two forms of energy. Students will enjoy exploring how sound and light are created, travel, and can be controlled.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: How Does Color Affect Heating by Absorption of Light?

For Students 9th - 10th
Light is an example of an electromagnetic wave. Electromagnetic waves can travel through the vacuum of interstellar space. They do not depend on an external medium-unlike a mechanical wave such as a sound wave which must travel through...
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Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Wave Interference

For Students 9th - 10th
Make waves with a dripping faucet, audio speaker, or laser. Add a second source or a pair of slits to create an interference pattern.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: How Does the Intensity of Light Change With Distance?

For Students 9th - 10th
How far would you have to travel so that the light of the full sun would provide "daylight" no brighter than twilight on Earth? This project describes a method to verify the inverse square law: how light, sound, electrical signals, and...
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Waves, Sound and Light: Longitudinal Pulse

For Students 9th - 10th
The animation portrays a medium as a series of particles connected by springs. In this type of longitudinal wave the particles of the medium vibrate in a direction parallel to the direction of energy transport.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Waves: Waves and Wavelike Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is an introduction to the concept of waves and wavelike motion people experience anywhere and everywhere.
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Handout
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Wave Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Two wave graphs depicting a sine wave and relating the various characteristics (wavelength, amplitude, frequency, and period) of a wave to each other. The site includes an interactive JavaScript form in which the visitor enters one...
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Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Wave Interference

For Students 9th - 10th
Conduct virtual experiments with water, sound, and light waves to determine the sine wave and patterns created in each.

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