Physics of the Universe · Week 25 · Waves and Electromagnetic Radiation
Waves Carry Energy
Calculating relationships among frequency, wavelength, and speed and noticing the ups and downs in students' emotional waves.
- Students will
- Students calculate wavelength from speed and frequency for sound and explain why sound passes through a wall when light does not.
- SEL skill
- Notice how emotions rise and fall like waves and name them at different points
- What it looks like
- Students recognize that emotions rise and fall like waves and name what they feel at different points in a day.
- Content focus
- Waves carry energy and the waves inside us
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is recognizing what you feel, think, and value, and how your strengths and feelings influence your actions. More self-awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- HS-PS4-1: High School Physical Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP5 Using mathematics and computational thinking
- Crosscutting concept: CCC3 Scale, proportion, and quantity
- Literacy in science: RST.11-12.3 Follow a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments or taking measurements.
- Traditional course: Physics
Fits these textbook chapters
- Physics Techbook, Concept 5.1: Wave Characteristics
- Inspire Physics, Unit 4: Vibrations and Waves
- Inspire Physics, Unit 4: Sound
- Inspire Physics, Unit 4: Interference and Diffraction
- California HMH Science Dimensions: Physics in the Universe, Unit 7: Waves
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More self-awareness activities for Physics of the Universe
- The Physicist in Me Self-awarenessStudents list the motion questions they wonder about, from skateboards to dust devils, and name the scientist identity they bring.
- Electric Charges Self-awarenessModeling attraction and repulsion between charges and reflecting on what attracts and repels us in hard situations.
- Energy Is Conserved Self-awarenessCalculating energy changes in a system and tracking where students' emotional energy goes during a school day.
- Semester Reflection: My Energy Story Self-awarenessStudents write an energy conservation story of their semester, showing where their effort went and what it built.
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