Energy4Me
Energy4me: Exploring Sound Waves
This activity explores the behavior of sound waves. Learn how to test how sound travels through different types of rock.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Shake It Up! Engineering for Seismic Waves
Students learn about how engineers design and build shake tables to test the ability of buildings to withstand the various types of seismic waves generated by earthquakes. Just like engineers, students design and build shake tables to...
Creative Science Centre
Creative Science Centre: Wind and Wave and Other Power
A collection of links to projects and information on how to make different types of windmills, and a wave powered electricity generator.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Measuring Distance With Sound Waves
Students learn about sound waves and use them to measure distances between objects. They explore how engineers incorporate ultrasound waves into medical sonogram devices and ocean sonar equipment. Students learn about properties, sources...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Electromagnetic Waves: The Electromagnetic Spectrum and Photons
An article that discusses the coupling of an electric field with a magnetic field to create electromagnetic waves. Article also discusses how different types of electromagnetic waves have different wavelengths which forms the...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies:testing Compression Waves
Here's a project for studying compression waves in different soil types. It uses a homemade wave tank for solids, with a frequency generator, amplifier, and loudspeaker as the vibration source. There are lots of interesting possibilities...
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Ejs Reflection and Refraction Between Taut Strings Model
In this simulation, two strings with different densities are held tautly as a wave pulses along them. Variables can be changed to alter the relative densities of the strings, as well as the type of wave pulse.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Effects of Ultrasound on Different Tissue Types
This is a five-question quiz related to the passage "The Effects of Ultrasound on Different Tissue Types."
Other
Nevada Seismological Laboratory: Seismic Waves
This resource describes the two different types of seismic waves and how they travel through the earth, offers diagrams of the waves, their speeds, and how seismograms are used to locate earthquakes.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Seismic Waves Study Guide
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about types of seismic waves. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Students learn the basics of the electromagnetic spectrum and how various types of electromagnetic waves are related in terms of wavelength and energy. In addition, they are introduced to the various types of waves that make up the...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Measuring the Earth's Core With Seismic Waves
When an earthquake occurs, seismic shock waves travel out through the earth from the source of the event. The shock waves travel through the earth (body waves), or along the Earth's surface (surface waves), and can be recorded at remote...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Physics for Kids: Types of Electromagnetic Waves
Kids learn about the types of electromagnetic waves in the science of physics including microwaves, infrared, ultraviolet, radio, x-rays, and gamma rays.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Electromagnetic Spectrum: Frontline
This video segment adapted from FRONTLINE introduces the electromagnetic spectrum and explains how the various types of electromagnetic waves are distinguished by the amount of energy each wave carries.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Three Color Mystery
Learners are introduced to an engineering challenge in which they are given a job assignment to separate three types of apples. However, they are unable to see the color differences between the apples, and as a result, they must think as...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Wave Shape: Lesson 1
This lesson will introduce the shape of waves, including amplitude and frequency. It will also describe how the shape of waves changes from one type to the next. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Wave Shape."
Ducksters
Ducksters: Physics for Kids: Basic Science of Waves
Kids learn about waves in the science of physics including types such as mechanical, electromagnetic, transverse, and longitudinal. Facts and examples are included.
Michigan Technological University
Michigan Tech University: Where Do Earthquakes Happen?
An informative site that explains how and where earthquakes occur and the different types of faults. Contains maps and charts of fault lines, plate edges, and the continental plates. There are other links within the site of related...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Set Your Table for a Sweet and Sticky Earthquake Shake
Earthquakes can have different affects depending on their location. This week long exercise asks you to build a model house and a special table to shake it on, and see how different soil types can amplify shaking.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Sound for Sight
Echolocation is the ability to orient by transmitting sound and receiving echoes from objects in the environment. As a result of a Marco-Polo type activity and subsequent lesson, students learn basic concepts of echolocation. They use...
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Other
Tech Museum: Building for the Big One [Pdf]
This resource presents a project where learners design and build structures that can withstand an earthquake. The project can include an extension where students look at the factors of soil type and proximity to fault in their design....
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Physical Science: Light and Optics
Students will investigate the properties of light waves. They will learn about the different types of electromagnetic waves and mechanical waves, and investigate the phenomena of reflection, refraction, interference, and diffraction.
eSchool Today
E School Today: Your Cool Facts and Tips on Earthquakes
Explains what earthquakes are, what causes them, the different types, tsunamis that can be caused by them, and how to prepare if living in an earthquake-prone area.
PBS
Nova: Seismic Signals
Scientists have determined that the earthquakes preceding volcanic eruptions are different than those that precede earthquakes. Discover the sounds and wave patterns produced by the three different types of volcanic seismic activities.