Lesson 14 of 84 · Waves
Experiment⭐ 30 XPThe Electromagnetic Spectrum
The Electromagnetic Spectrum.
🎯 Your mission
Set it up. Test it. Be amazed.
⚡ The twist
Nature loves to surprise the careful watcher.
Mind = Blown
🔬 The more you look, the more nature shows you.
Make a hypothesis first
Before you start: write down what you think will happen, and why.
What You'll Learn
Sound is a vibration that travels through matter as a wave. It cannot travel through a vacuum. Sound travels fastest through solids and slowest through gases.
Key Words
- model
- prototype
- design
Materials Needed
- cardboard
- tape
- scissors
Safety First
- Tie back long hair before starting the experiment.
Steps
Review the background information on Waves before starting.
Design an experiment to test a hypothesis. Identify your independent variable, dependent variable, and controls. Run the experiment and present results.
Note any unexpected results and think about why they happened.
Share your findings with the class or a partner and discuss what you learned.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What determines the pitch of a sound?
Where you see this in real life
This shows up in your everyday life more than you'd think.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Try one experiment in real life this week — even a tiny one.
For the dinner table
“What's the most surprising thing you learned today?”
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