nit 3:

Sound.
1. Think-Pair-Share
*5min
-. Things we know about sound
-. Questions
2. Group Share (chart paper)
-. 5 things we know
*5min
-. 5 questions
3. Class Share
*5min

What do you think this might be about?

Science & Sound...

Write a sentence using the words
science and sound.

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Option A:
1.Sound and science sentence
2.3 questions about sound
3.1 thing learned today
Option B: Free Write - Your thoughts
and questions about sound. +.

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Questions we are answering this week:
How is sound made?
How does sound travel in waves?
How fast is sound?
How far can sound travel?
I think cymatics is very cool. I would like to see
what it would look like if they got it to react to a
couple of my favorite songs. - Damir
Why can we feel sound? - Jether
Why does the water vibrate / form patterns? Jada , Donovan

- I want to learn more about

cymatics.
- Cymatics helps us
visualize sound.
- Science helps you see
sound.
- Sound is a part of
science.
- Sound has a lot of
science behind it.
- Science helps us explore
sound.

Why is sound called sound?

Why do we have different types of sounds?
Who discovered sound waves?
Why are people deaf? dumb?
How does the ear work?
What are the limits of our hearing?
What makes a sound loud? Fade?
How do hearing aids work?
Why cant you hear in Space?
How does sound affect how we feel?
What happens if you cut your ear off?
Do deaf people hear in their dreams?

Predict/Brainstorm

Try to define
sound before
you read.
Clarify

Question

*15 min

Next questions.
Wondering.
(Applying what you
understand)

Summarize*WAIT TO DO THIS

What words/ What is sound?

phrases/ideas (Put together what you
arent clear? now know to define sound)

DSN: What
is sound?

What is sound? Clarifying our understanding.

Key words (vocabulary) to clarify:
wave
medium
Ideas to clarify:
- How is sound made?
- How does sound travel?

Think-Pair-Share *5 min
What is sound?
1. How is sound made?
2. How does sound travel?

Research/Clarify
*5 min
What is sound?
1. How is sound made?
2. How does sound travel?
?.
??...
??????........
Brainstorm a list of details to clarify about sound.

Tomorrow-- (Part 3) What is sound?

1st: Brainstorm - what information do you
think you should include?
2nd: Draft your explanation

you can do it like this -->

RESEARCH

revise your search terms

+ kids search term
select sources you can
understand
use youtube
use multiple sources

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What is sound?
- How is it made? How does it travel?
1.How is sound made?
Explain & give 2 examples
2.How does it travel?

The Bell Jar Experiment.

Predict-Observe-Explain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIOqX4uJtYY

How is
sound
made?

How is a sound being made in each

How do these
instrument?
different instruments
What are the steps
make sound?

* In one sentence: how is

sound made?

REVIEW:
What is sound?

Sound is a vibration of air

particles that travels through the
air and is detected by your ear.

How is it made?
- By making vibrations.
- .?

ear drum

*Main idea
supporting details??

Construct an Explanation
Main ideas + Details/Explanation
Sound is
How is sound made?
made by
What details and
vibrations
explanation could
you add to
Details/
strengthen your
explanation?
Explanation?

How does sound travel?

What I know about
how sound travels...

My questions about
sound travelling

How does sound travel? - clarifying understanding

Why does sound need air to travel?
How does sound travel in other mediums?

medium - science definition

sizes - middle
art, the tool you use math - middle number

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Part 1:

1. Today I learned
2. Any questions/comments?
Part 2:

1.) When do you want to start research

projects on sound? after roundtables, doesnt matter
2.) What research question are you right
now interested in answering?

Do Now
1. What is the medium
between you and learning?
2. Air is an example of a
gaseous medium that sound
travels through. Do you think
sound can travel through water?
through solids?
Claim + Evidence +

Which diagram
represents the
molecules of a
solid? a liquid?
a gas? Explain.

Which diagram
represents the
molecules of a
solid? a liquid?
a gas? Explain.

ROCK (solid)

WATER (liquid)

AIR (gas)

Make a hypothesis:
In which type of medium do you think sound
can travel the fastest in? +why

How does a cup and string

telephone work?
He makes a sound she hears the sound...

How does a cup and string telephone work?

How it
works

* How is this different from

just speaking without a
string between you?

Details/
Explanation?

* What basic
understandings do you
need to explain to answer
this?
* Key words?
COMPETITION:
Strongest explanation gets

T.Y.F.F. - DUE MONDAY 3/2.

Select a second standard you want to be
assessed on. Write them on the back.
1. Communication - Incorporates ideas and
*write this in your
evidence purposefully own words
2. ? - creativity? curiosity? determination?
interpretation?

Coming up next week

Topics:
the ear, the brains interpretation of sound,
deafness, the voice, musical instruments.

REFLECTION:
EXIT
TICKET (free write)
Your thoughts & comments from the week
please.
+draw/share something fun?

Review:
What medium does
sound travel the
best in? Use our
student molecules
demonstration to
explain.
2. Your Thoughts?
Questions?

344
300 m/s
m/s

,
1,500
m/s
Air

speed of
sound in
different
mediums

Water
Wood
Iron

5,000 m/s

Everyday Physics. Application Questions

Construct an Explanation of SOUND:
Essay w/pictures OR Poster
- What is sound? // How is it made? //
How does it travel?
- Apply what you know about sound to answer
question A or B. *Or both!

A. Cup & String - How

does a cup and string
telephone work?

REMEMBER:
- sections
-

titles

drawings

sources

Clarify:
How do sound
waves travel?

B. Ghetto Speakers - Why

does putting your phone in a
bowl make it louder?

A wave of compression and rarefaction,

by which sound is propagated in an elastic
medium such as air.

The Eardrum - How our ear detects sound waves

Construct an Explanation
Essay w/pictures OR Poster

- What is sound? // How is it made? //

How does it travel?

Build your explanation.

Answer your question,
and teach the basic
concepts necessary to
understand your question.
Sections should
connect.

REMEMBER:
- sections
- titles
- drawings
- sources

What is sound?
1st: Brainstorm - what information do you think
you should include?
2nd: Draft your explanation.
3rd: Start Final Draft (?)

*show me, then..

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1.Today I learned
Anything interesting? Something important? Did
you clarify something?

2.Any questions/comments.
Anything you need help with?

Do Now:
1. Draw a picture of sound waves
coming from an object.
2. Why do you think sound gets
quieter the further you get from a
source?

Source: Latin - to rise

- the source of that
sound
- information source

Sound Intensity

Sound intensity is defined as the sound power per

unit area. The usual context is the measurement of
sound intensity in the air at a listener's location. The
basic units are watts/m2 or watts/cm2. (Hyperphysics)

New Assessment Standard

Communication: Communicates in multiple
formats. Communicates information or ideas in
multiple formats (including orally, graphically, textually,
mathematically, and symbolically.)

I want to see pictures.

Find/Make pictures Everyone wants
to strengthen your to see pictures.
explanations.

EXIT TICKET (on back of entry ticket)

1.Today I learned
Anything interesting? Something important? Did
you clarify something?

2.Any questions/comments.
Anything you need help with?

Do Now

Pause&Think:
1. Sound travels the best/fastest through a solid.
2. Sound is blocked by solids...
(walls)

What are your. Thoughts? Questions?

Soundwaves
travelling through
a solid...

Soundwaves
hitting a solid...

Whats the difference here?

Why do highways put up these walls?

Highway sound
barriers to reduce
highway noise.

What happens when a soundwave hits a solid?

Check this
groovy way to
cut out
airport noise

How can we reduce noise?

How can we block sound?

ALTERNATE OPTION:
What is it like to be deaf?
(A world with no sound.)

write in question on back

Classwork // Homework:
1. Read the article. Record things to clarify,
wondering questions, and write a quick summary.

2. Clarify some of your questions/understanding

(Optional. Clarify what you want to/need to).
3. Construct a short explanation answering
How can we reduce noise?. (w/ pictures?)

Topic Interest Survey

1. Echos, Sonar
2. Supersonic
3. Music (... what is it?)
4. Music & Math
(physics of waves)

5. Technology
(noise-cancelling headphones,
radio, spy tech)

A. Projects?
B. Mini-Lessons
C. Mix? Other?

EXIT TICKET Fridays Reflection

This week I learned...
1. Content (What I learned about sound )
2. Skills (What I learned about learning/how to explain
things )

3. H.T.W.W.

(What I learned about Physics and

learning about how the world around me works )

* any other thoughts/comments?

& hand in any papers