Summary
In this fifth and final lesson of the "What Is a Wave?" unit, students will observe two demonstrations and form conclusions to understand how light travels through matter. Students will complete a Concept Card Map activity to demonstrate their understanding of the unit's content and concepts.
Essential Question(s)
What are waves? How do waves behave differently from particles?
Snapshot
Engage
Students generate key concepts based on the previous lessons.
Explore
Students make observations and develop claims about light traveling through matter.
Explain
Students observe a laser demonstration and form conclusions about light frequency.
Extend
Students brainstorm other forms of radiation.
Evaluate
Students create a Concept Card Map to summarize their understanding of the unit.
Materials
Lesson Slides (attached)
Concept Card Packet (attached, one per group of 3-4 students)
C.E.R.T.I.fy Your Thinking Activity (attached, one per student)
Wave Unit Vocabulary Packet (attached, one per student)
Wave Unit Vocabulary Teacher’s Guide (attached)
Yellow highlighter
Pliers
Jar with lid
Two liter clear plastic bottle
Drinking glass
Pencil
Water
650nm red laser pointer
405nm blue/violet laser pointer
Poster board or large paper
Glue sticks
Engage
15 Minute(s)
Use the attached Lesson Slides to guide the lesson.
Show slides 3 and 4. Review the essential questions and lesson objectives with students. Place students into groups of three or four.
Show slide 5. Using the Strike Out strategy:
Ask students to generate a list of key ideas or themes from the past two lessons in this unit.
When the lists are complete, have each group pass their list to another group for review.
Instruct each group to strike out the least important key concept from the lists they review.
When each group receives its original list, ask students look it over and choose one concept to reclaim.
Instruct groups to add the reclaimed concept back to their original list.
Show slide 6. Ask students to combine their lists of important themes and concepts gleaned from the past two lessons. Have them add these concepts to the Strike Out Board created in Lesson 2.
Show slide 7. Refer to the Driving Question Board created in Lesson 1. Ask students to determine if any of their questions can be answered at this time. Ask them to add any questions that should be added at this time.
Explore
20 Minute(s)
Show slide 8. Pass out the attached C.E.R.T.I.fy Your Thinking Activity handout to each student. Introduce them to the C.E.R.T.I.fy Your Thinking strategy.
Show students the empty glass with the pencil inside the glass.
Ask students to think about how adding water to the glass will affect the way they see the pencil.
Have students write a response on their handout. This response is their claim.
Invite them to consider what they have learned about waves so far.
Based on what they already know, have students write a sentence with evidence for their response.
Have students write their reasoning for their claim.
Ask for volunteers to share their claims, evidence and reasoning.
Show slide 9 after students have written a claim, evidence, and reasoning on their activity sheet. Add water to the glass and tell students to observe the pencil.
Show slide 10.
Ask students if their claim has changed after viewing the pencil with water in the glass.
Have students write a new claim in the next box on their handout.
If their evidence has changed based on observing the pencil in the water, have students write a new piece of evidence as well as a new reasoning.
Ask for volunteers to share their revised claims, evidence, and reasoning.
Explain to students that the pencil appears to be crooked because light cannot travel as quickly in water as it does in the air; therefore, the light bends around the pencil and makes the pencil appear crooked.
Tell students that this is an example of “refraction” and that they will learn more about refraction during this lesson.
Explain
20 Minute(s)
Show slide 11. Shine a 650nm red laser pointer through the glow water. Ask students to share what they observe. No fluorescence should appear.
Show slide 12. Shine a 405nm blue/violet laser through the glow water. Ask students to share what they observe. The water should fluoresce a bright yellow/green color.
Suggest to students that perhaps two red laser pointers will make the water fluoresce. Shine two red laser pointers at one time into the bottle. Ask students to share why the blue/violet laser produces a change, but the red lasers do not. Explain that red lasers have a lower frequency than blue/violet lasers, so regardless of how many red lasers are shined into the water, it will not result in a fluorescence.
Tell students to use their Wave Unit Vocabulary Packet for taking notes as they watch the next video. By this time in the unit, students should have notes and examples for most of the terms on the handout.
Show slide 13 and play the video, titled “Refraction Explained.”
Show slides 14-16 after the video. Discuss the vocabulary words on each slide. Students can add notes to their vocabulary packets at this time. Ask students to review their vocabulary words to make sure they have filled in all the boxes on the handout. Discuss any questions they may have about their vocabulary words.
Extend
15 Minute(s)
Show slide 17.
Assign students to work in groups of 3-4 to develop a list of other types of electromagnetic radiation that have not been discussed so far. Have them write their notes on notebook paper. Ask each group to share one type of electromagnetic radiation they have discussed in their groups.
Evaluate
30 Minute(s)
Show slide 18. Introduce the Concept Card Mapping strategy to students. Ask students to return to their groups of 3-4. Pass out the attached Concept Card Packet to each group.
Provide time for students to sort the concept cards and to decide how the cards should be connected to each other. Encourage students to use their vocabulary packets to assist with grouping the concept cards. Have students glue or paste their concept cards to the poster board and draw lines to show connections among the cards.
Collect the completed mapping poster to assess students’ understanding of the unit content.
Resources
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