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Waves, Sound, and Optics Lesson Plans
- Alternate Theory of Color Perception- To observe an alternative theory of color perception.
- An Awareness Of Light Made Simply Fun- To remediate sensory-motor deficits in Learning Disabilities students through scientific activities that study light.
- Color- This lesson is designed to introduce primary and secondary colors of light.
- Color- To develop a relationship between colors in paint & colors in light. What colors make white light. What is Roy G. Biv..
- Colors- Students will understand complementary colors and that colors we see are the result of some colors being removed from white light.
- Color Mixing- List the three primary colored light beams, and recognize that these are the colors used in colored TV.
- Comparison of Images Formed by Plane, Cylindrical and Spherical Mirrors- To demonstrate that all mirrors reverse the image front to back and that the apparent right to left reversal in a plane mirror is a result of this front to back reversal.
- Comparison of Images Formed by Plane, Cylindrical and Spherical Mirrors- To demonstrate that all mirrors reverse the image front to back, and that the apparent right to left reversal in a plane mirror is a result of this front to back reversal.
- Comparison of Images Formed By Plane and Curved Mirrors- To distinguish between horizontal and vertical axes and to recognize that ones eyes lie along a horizontal axis and ones forehead and chin lie along a vertical axis.
- Computer Interfacing: Frequency Measurement: The Doppler Effect- To use computer interfacing to measure velocity using the Doppler Shift with sound.
- From Vibration To Sound- To identify the parts of a sound wave.
- Guitar Waves- Prove that the wave pattern of a vibrating string is the superposition of harmonics.
- Hear The Light?- The students will illustrate and describe a circuit which uses a tape player, inductor, and flashlight to modulate a light beam.
- Homemade Instruments- Students will identify what sound is and make musical instruments out of household items.
- How Sound Travels- To observe that sound moves better through a solid than it does through a liquid or a gas.
- I Can See A Rainbow!- As a result of this lesson, students will be able to identify the colors of a rainbow using the mnemonic ROY G BIV.
- Just Passing Through; Transparent - TSWBAT define the terms transparent, translucent, and opaque and explain how light reacts when it comes in contact with objects of these types.
- Laser Holography- To make a Laser holograph and to understand why it works.
- Lenses- Students in grades 5-8 will discover, through exploration and observation, what lenses are and what lenses can do.
- Let There be Light- The students will learn the process of photosynthesis. This is for all grades.
- Light- What kind of property does light have?
- Light- The main objectives of this mini-teach is for primary students to understand the Nature of Light.
- Light- Students will be able to calculate the angle of reflection and the angle of incidence and discover that these angles are equal.
- Light And Color- Students will learn where light come from by using a laser.
- Light and Vision- Explains the normal eye.
- Light: Reflection: Illusion- The student will understand The Law of Reflection in practical application as it applies to a plane mirror.
- Make Waves- Students in grade six will discover, through exploration, the basic characteristics of waves.
- Making Sounds- The students will be able to observe that vibrating objects can produce sounds.
- Microscopes and Telescopes- To use a knowledge of lenses to develop how microscopes and telescopes were first invented.
- Mirror Symmetry/Mirror Images- The intended grade level is sixth grade, but much of this is easily adapted to any grade. This would be at least a two day lesson.
- Mixing Colors With Light Beams- The objective of this lesson is for pre-schoolers and primary graders to learn about mixing colors by light beams. The enjoyment of seeing the colors change and learning the difference from mixing paints.
- Mixing Primary Colors- The kindergarten students will be able use different ways to mix primary colors.
- Mystery of the Mirrors- Compare objects in two mirrors at right angles to each other and describe what happened.
- Now Hear This!- In this project, students will be able to describe how sounds are heard by the human ear by creating a model of the human inner ear.
- Optical Illusions- Given the introduction to optical illusions ,each student will be able to identify and construct four optical illusions illustrated in class.
- Pitch- To observe that the pitch of a sound varies by the length of the vibrating medium.
- Plane Mirror Images- Where a plane mirror image is (behind the mirror, not on the mirror).
- Polarization of Light- Students will discover that polarization filters will be able to block incoming light from passing through when filters are positioned perpendicularly to each other.
- Polarization- Demonstrate some phenomenological activities illustrating interference patterns.
- Polarized Light- The idea is to show what polarized light is and show some examples and applications from the "real world".
- Polarized Light- To develop a model which can account for differences in light behavior using a second set of polaroid filters.
- Reflection Relay- To use the laws of reflection to bounce a beam of light around a classroom to hit targets and to attain the lowest elapsed time to hit the targets.
- Reflections Of- The student will be able to observe and compare the angle of incidence with the angle of reflection.
- Reflections With Mirrors- Students will be able to define reflection. Students will explain the laws of reflection.
- Sound- To demonstrate different ways to produce sound.
- Sound- The student will be able to identify and understand these vocabulary words: vibration, volume, pitch, particles, tuning forks, waves and matter.
- Sound- To understand that high pitched sounds are caused by more vibrations and low pitched sounds are caused by fewer vibrations.
- Sound- Children shall "discover" that sound waves can be directed with a megaphone and collected with an ear trumpet.
- Sound- After this lesson, the student should be able to relate the pitch of sound to the length of a vibrating object.
- Sound/Pitch- To discover how pitch can be changed in instruments that are plucked (strings), blown (woodwinds and brasses) or hit (percussion).
- Sound: The Vibration of Materials- Students will recognize that the sound produced is dependent on the type of material that is used.
- Spherical Mirrors- Construct ray diagrams of images in spherical mirrors. Find images of objects in spherical mirrors.
- Understanding Waves- Eighth grade students will gain an understanding of the properties that all waves have in common.
- Wave Introduce/Review - Introduction of electromagnetic wave concepts and review of sound wave concepts.
- Wave Motion- Identify and explain the difference between a transverse and longitudinal wave.
- Waves- Students will be able to state the properties that a medium must possess in order that waves may be transmitted through it.
- You may now enter the Holodeck- The students will be able to compare and contrast photography and holography, and therefore be able to explain the basic characteristics of a hologram along with the reasons for such attributes.
