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Use an online simulator to teach your students about the relationship between wave speed, frequency, wavelength, and amplitude. Engaging, hands-on, with data your students can use to make sense of the math behind waves. Plus, no horrible slinky lab headache for you! :) This bundle contains two highly-rated products of mine: the wave lab and a wave logic puzzle.
The interactive computer simulation is designed to guide students into discovering the properties of waves. The first part of this inquiry-styled lab investigates the effects of amplitude, frequency, damping, and tension by having students determine their independent and dependent variables while also setting conditions to keep constant.
I have included two versions of the lab: one for classrooms where students keep a lab notebook and create their own procedures and data tables and another version that acts like a traditional lab hand-out. Identical lab, just two different ways it might look in your classroom.
After the lab, there is a nine-question assessment that could be used as a quiz or classwork/homework. For your early-finishers or as a great bell-ringer the next day, I've bundled my Wave Properties logic puzzle with the lab. Kids love these logic puzzles - they think they are playing, you'll know they are working on the relationships between variables :)
This lab is a perfect introduction (or review) of waves for first-year physics students or physics science students. Most appropriate age groups would be grades 8 - 10, although I have used this lab successfully with my 11-12 grade physics classes.
The simulation is HTML5 and will run on laptops (Mac and Windows) and chromebooks. If you don't have great wifi or internet access for your students but you do have devices (even an old netbook), you can download the simulation and run it locally without internet at all. Instructions on how to do this are included.
Included in the bundle:
- Lab handouts
- Teacher notes
- Post lab quiz & answer key
- Logic Puzzle & answer key
I have many other high-quality products here on TPT. Below are links to a few of my best-selling items:
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Description
Use an online simulator to teach your students about the relationship between wave speed, frequency, wavelength, and amplitude. Engaging, hands-on, with data your students can use to make sense of the math behind waves. Plus, no horrible slinky lab headache for you! :) This bundle contains two highly-rated products of mine: the wave lab and a wave logic puzzle.
The interactive computer simulation is designed to guide students into discovering the properties of waves. The first part of this inquiry-styled lab investigates the effects of amplitude, frequency, damping, and tension by having students determine their independent and dependent variables while also setting conditions to keep constant.
I have included two versions of the lab: one for classrooms where students keep a lab notebook and create their own procedures and data tables and another version that acts like a traditional lab hand-out. Identical lab, just two different ways it might look in your classroom.
After the lab, there is a nine-question assessment that could be used as a quiz or classwork/homework. For your early-finishers or as a great bell-ringer the next day, I've bundled my Wave Properties logic puzzle with the lab. Kids love these logic puzzles - they think they are playing, you'll know they are working on the relationships between variables :)
This lab is a perfect introduction (or review) of waves for first-year physics students or physics science students. Most appropriate age groups would be grades 8 - 10, although I have used this lab successfully with my 11-12 grade physics classes.
The simulation is HTML5 and will run on laptops (Mac and Windows) and chromebooks. If you don't have great wifi or internet access for your students but you do have devices (even an old netbook), you can download the simulation and run it locally without internet at all. Instructions on how to do this are included.
Included in the bundle:
- Lab handouts
- Teacher notes
- Post lab quiz & answer key
- Logic Puzzle & answer key
I have many other high-quality products here on TPT. Below are links to a few of my best-selling items:
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