Year 4 Topic Reflection Activity_Paper Cup Telephones (2019)

Paper Cup Telephone Project

Vocabulary

tight
A knot
string

Sound
waves vibration

Discussion (partner work)

Talk with your partner about what you did as you list the following in
numerical order.

A hole was poked in the bottom of two cups. ____

A string was put through the hole and tied with a knot. ____

Another student listened with the other cup. ____

If someone held the string in the middle, then the sound was not clear. ____

If the string was not tight, then the sound was unclear. ____

One student talked into one cup. ____

Sound travelled down the string as vibrations. ____

The cups were held by different students. ____

The string was pulled tight. ____

Year 4 Topic Reflection Activity_Paper Cup Telephones (2019)

Grammar/ Structure
Passive and Active Sentences. (with teacher support)

Active sentences are sentences where the subject does the action.
The boy kicked the dog.
Passive sentences are sentences where something happens to the
subject.
The dog was kicked by the boy.
Passive sentences help us talk about our science experiments.

Look at the sentences on the first page. Think about whether they are active
or passive sentences. Write the numbers of the sentences in the right column.
Discuss you answers as a class. Tell why.

Active Sentences Passive Science Sentences

Change this active sentence into a passive sentence.

A hole was poked into the bottom of the cup.

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What did you add to your sentence?

Write your own sentences about the cup stacking project in last week’s
S.T.E.A.M class. (Or any other science project you have done in the past.)

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Year 4 Topic Reflection Activity_Paper Cup Telephones (2019)

Application (partner work)

With your partner, write the steps in making a cup phone. Use adjectives
(long, small, cute, etc.) and adverbs (gently, quickly, slowly, etc.)

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Complete this table. Try to write as many reasons as you can think of.

What makes the phone work or Why?

not work well.

1.

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3.