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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Strum Along

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Music and sound are two different concepts that share much in common. Determining the difference between the two can sometimes be difficult due to the subjective nature of deciding what is or is not music. The goal of this activity is to...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Thirsty for Gold

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Student teams conduct an experiment that uses gold nanoparticles as sensors of chemical agents to determine which of four sports drinks has the most electrolytes. In this way, students are introduced to gold nanoparticles and their...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Exploring Light: Absorb, Reflect, Transmit or Refract?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In a hands-on way, students explore light's properties of absorption, reflection, transmission and refraction through various experimental stations within the classroom. To understand absorption, reflection and transmission, they shine...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sound for Sight

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sounds Like Music

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Music can loosely be defined as organized sound. The lesson objectives, understanding sound is a form of energy, understanding pitch, understanding sound traveling through a medium, and being able to separate music from sound, can...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Formation of Standing Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
How are standing wave formations formed? Why are they only formed when the medium is vibrated at specific frequencies? What makes these so-called frequencies so special and magical? These questions are answered in this exploration of...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Nodes and Antinodes

For Students 9th - 10th
In this thorough lesson, nodes and antinodes are explained and compared to crests and troughs. A "Check Your Understanding," set of questions is included at the end of the lesson with answers.
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Vision Learning

Vision Learning: Physics: Waves and Wave Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Instructional module focusing on waves and wave motion. Discussion includes wave theories, wave basics, and wave speed. The site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links relating to the topic.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Physics 2000: Electromagnetic Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
Using a student-teacher dialogue format, this page discusses the nature of light as an electromagnetic wave and the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Behavior of Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
Boundary behavior, incident pulse, reflected pulse,and transmitted pulse are explained in this thorough tutorial. Animation and drawings are used to clarify the concepts.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Physics 1: Waves and Sound

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will understand and predict wave phenomena, and investigate the energy contained in waves. They will gain a deeper understanding of waves and wave interference that will enable characterization and engineering of matter from the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Oscillatory Motion and Waves: Waves

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to describe various characteristics associated with a wave and differentiate between transverse and longitudinal waves.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: The Particle Adventure

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit this site for an interactive tour of the atom and all aspects of particle physics. View the animations available with almost every description on this site. A great place for the fundamentals of particles and forces including a...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Transverse Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explore the characteristics and behaviors of energy transferred by transverse waves.
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Pennsylvania State University

Kettering University: Doppler Effect and Sonic Boom

For Students 9th - 10th
Incredible set of animations demonstrating the Doppler effect and shockwaves resulting from supersonic aircraft.
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Physics Central

Physics Central: Physics at Your Desk: Drumming Fingers

For Students 6th - 8th
An easy experiment through which students explore sound waves while tapping their fingers on a desk or table in a quiet room.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Quantum Physics: An Introduction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Interactive demonstration provides students with an introduction to Quantum Physics. They will also be introduced to wave/particle duality, Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle, superposition, Schrodinger's cat, and wavefunction.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Color of Salts Flame Test

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This laboratory exercise is designed to introduce students to salts and their unique color given off while burned. Students will obtain several salt solutions to observe the color of flame when burned.
Interactive
South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Nasa Online: Light: Scattering Light

For Students 9th - 10th
An introduction to the concept of the visible light spectrum provided in an animated format.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Introduction to the Atmosphere

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A detailed overview of the Earth's atmosphere, with explanations about atmospheric properties, the structure of the atmosphere, its four layers, atmospheric processes, energy heat transfer, conduction and convection, and radiation. All...
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NASA

Nasa: Imagine the Universe: Neutron Stars and Pulsars

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover what neutron stars and pulsars are and view pictures of them. Includes links to additional resources and lesson plans.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Forced Vibration

For Students 9th - 10th
This physics tutorial explores forced vibration. Includes links to natural frequency, standing wave patterns and fundamental frequency and harmonics.
Website
NASA

Nasa: Sci Jinks: What Causes a Rainbow?

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out whatever you wanted to know about rainbows and how they form. Check out the section on folklore regarding rainbows too.
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Johns Hopkins University

The Electromagnetic Spectrum

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA related site shows the entire Electromagnetic Spectrum. Provides a brief description of the expansive colored spectrum as well as a related link that provides more details.

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