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Fish Tank Optics: Learning How Light Travels

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students examine light waves and see how they travel. They explain that light moves in waves, which can bounce off of or go through materials. They use a flashlight to shine on a variety of objects.
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Secrets in a Grain of Sand

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students working in small groups examine beach sand to discover signs of erosion, weathering, ocean currents and waves. They present their findings to the class.
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Sounds You See, Hear, and Feel

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore and create sound wave vibrations using musical instruments and common objects. They compare/contrast and describe actions that cause sound wave vibrations that can be seen, heard, and felt.
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Quantum Mechanics and Atomic Physics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students will discuss the de Brogile Hypothesis and state the circumstances under which the wave nature of matter is observed. They will also calculate the wavelengths of matter waves.
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Looking into Earth with GIS

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students work with data from a seismic wave model in a freely available GIS (geographic information system) program, ArcVoyager SE. Using a GIS, they examine maps and produce graphs to explore variations in seismic wave velocities at...
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Who Was Here?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore how their community has also had various waves of immigration over the years. It asks students to visit a local cemetery and examine the names and dates on the headstones to find evidence of who lived in the community...
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Domino Effect

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate a change from potential energy to kinetic energy and discuss the concept of waves carrying energy. They, in pairs, work on an experiment which is guided by a worksheet imbedded in this plan.
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Alphabet, Vegetable, and Chicken Noodle Parachute Soup

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students throw in their letter or vegetable when the said object or letter is said by the teacher. They also explore how to make a parachute ripple and make waves.
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Indinite Potential Well

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students use experiments such as electron diffraction that show that particle have a wavelike nature. When they are fired through a thin slit, rather than scattering like hard spheres they interfere like waves. Students see that the...
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Continental Drift

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars simulate convection waves using a model. In this earth science lesson, students explain the effect of plate movements to Earth's geography. They use the internet to find answers to graphic organizer questions.
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Angular Solution of Hydrogen Atom

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students participate in an angular solution of hydrogen activity. Using this activity, students also illustrate eigenvalue problems applied in mathematics. They explore Schrodinger's equation and particle wave duality.
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Geometrical Optics: Reflection and Refraction of Light

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students define and discus the concepts of wave fronts and rays. In groups, they distinguish between specular and diffuse reflections and use Snell's Law to predict the path of light rays. They calculate the speed of light through...
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Sizing Up Sound

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders are introduced to the concepts of sound waves and frequency. As a class, they listen to the differences between different types of instruments. To end the lesson, they practice identifying low and high pitches and playing...
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Radial Solution, Hydrogen Wavefunction

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students study the radial solution of hydrogen activity. They illustrate eigenvalue problems in applied mathematics. Students explore Schrodinger's equation and particle wave duality.
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Modeling With Circular Functions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore circular functions. They identify the amplitude, period, phase shift and vertical shift of circular functions. Students analyze phenomena described by sine waves and they find mathematical models for transforming...
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Generation of Action Potentials in Nitella Giant Algal Cells

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students observe cytoplasmic streaming in Nitella cells. They examine the conduction of a wave of depolarization across other membranes, such as the axons of neurons. Students predict the effects of sending a small electric current...
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Bubble Blower

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students make bubbles. In this art lesson, students take the plastic ring holder, dip it in the dish soap and wave it around making bubbles.
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Literacy Printables : Handwriting 2

For Students Pre-K - 3rd
Celebrate National Handwriting Day with a variety of worksheets designed to warm up young writer's hands. Learners work on tracing figures such as curves, ellipses, mounds, and more.
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Convection Currents

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explain and understand the circulation of air in the atmosphere. They identify that energy can be carried from one place to another by heat flow or by waves, including water, light and sound waves, or by moving objects. ...
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Day 4: Plate Tectonics II

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Learners explore the theory of plate tectonics. In this geology instructional activity, students conduct a simulation of the crust of the Earth floating on the mantle. Learners research plate tectonics and share their findings with the...
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Light 1: Making Light of Science

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to the electromagnetic spectrum, focusing on visible light. They are introduced to the idea that all light travels as waves, and that wavelength defines the various regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Music Technology

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Pupils identify the features of a synthesizer and practice using them. They record different sounds using the software provided. They also examine sound waves and applications through the synthesizer.
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Physics: Angular Solution of Hydrogen Atom

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students discover the angular solution of hydrogen activity. Depending on the undergraduate course, this activity can illustrate eigenvalue problems, to introduce Shrodinger's equation and particle wave duality, or to introduce...
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What If the Reef Dies?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners complete four activities to investigate how reef ecology can change. They perform experiments to show how sewage discharge can affect a marine ecosystem, look at substances that don't dissolve in water, examine wave action...

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