Explore the types, properties, and movements of waves—and save 20%—with the EXPLORING WAVES SCIENCE UNIT, from the Science Foundations Curriculum series. This unit focuses on the following concepts:

• Properties of electromagnetic and mechanical waves
• Using waves to transfer information
• Characteristics of light and sound

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RESOURCES INCLUDED:

• LET’S EXPLORE WAVES is a 24-slide interactive PowerPoint—with SEVEN video/sound clips—that features the properties of waves, characteristics of sound, ocean, and light waves, and the types of waves that transfer information.
• MAKING WAVES (Comparing Light and Sound Waves) ACTIVITY BOOK is an interactive book that highlights the similarities and differences between light and sound waves, including the ways we sense light and sound, and includes THREE review activities. This activity book pack also includes THREE 11 x 17 inch reference posters: Waves uses colorful photos to define and illustrate key characteristics of waves and Light Waves and Sound Waves compare and contrast the characteristics of light and sound waves..

BONUS RESOURCES INCLUDED: This unit contains an 18-page BONUS Activity Pack that includes the following resources:

• SEVEN SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS focus on the properties of light and sound waves.
• LIGHT OR SOUND? uses a Venn diagram format to review the properties of light and sound waves.
• MAKING WAVES is a crossword puzzle that highlights characteristics of waves.
• WAVES UNIT REVIEW covers the key concepts and vocabulary words introduced in the unit.

This unit also contains a one-page teacher’s guide that lists the key concepts of the unit and the applicable NGSS and TEKS standards.

Vocabulary Words:

amplitude, digital information, electromagnetic wave, energy, energy transfer, light wave, longitudinal wave, mechanical wave, medium, sound wave, transverse wave, wave, wavelength

Targeted Skills: (partial list)

• Identifying waves by their properties
• Describing the difference between electromagnetic and mechanical waves
• Describing ways waves can transfer information
• Describing the similarities and difference between light and sound waves
• Developing critical thinking skills of comparing and contrasting
• Building content-area literacy in science
• Reading fluency and comprehension

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TARGETED NGSS STANDARDS

• Crosscutting Concepts: Cause and Effect, Energy and Matter, Patterns
• Electromagnetic Radiation
• Energy Transfer
• Information Processing and Technologies
• Patterns of Amplitude and Wavelength
• Science and Engineering Practices
• Structure, Function, and Information Processing
• Waves and Information Transfer
• Wave Properties

TARGETED TEKS STANDARDS

• Crosscutting Concepts: Cause and Effect, Models, Patterns, Systems
• Force, Motion, and Energy: Forms of Energy
• Force, Motion, and Energy: Light Waves and Reflection
• Force, Motion, and Energy: Uses of Energy
• Organisms and Environments: Structure and Function
• Scientific Investigation and Reasoning

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Sample Pages: Please see the preview for sample pages/slides from the unit.

Image Credits: The illustrations in these are my own original drawings (©Dr.J). Credits for the photos used in the bonus posters are listed on the Image Credit page, included with the activity book. Photo credits for the PowerPoint are listed on the last slide of the presentation.

Technical Info: The slides are in PowerPoint format, and the activity book and poster are in PDF format, combined into a single zip file. The bonus activity pack is also in PDF format.

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SAVE 30% with the SCIENCE CURRICULUM MEGA-BUNDLE, which includes all TWENTY science units, containing TWENTY-EIGHT activity books, TWENTY PowerPoints, plus more than 300 FREE BONUS pages of experiments, projects, printables, reference posters, and unit reviews.

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UNITS IN THE FOUNDATIONS SCIENCE CURRICULUM:

INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES

• THREE BRANCHES OF SCIENCE
• CYCLES IN THE NATURAL WORLD
• DISCOVERIES AND INVENTION

LIFE SCIENCES

• THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
• THE PLANT KINGDOM
• BIOMES AND ECOSYSTEMS
• ANIMAL AND PLANT ADAPTATIONS
• FOOD CHAINS AND WEBS

EARTH SCIENCES

• GEOLOGY AND THE GEOSPHERE
• WEATHER AND THE ATMOSPHERE
• WATER AND THE HYDROSPHERE
• OUR CHANGING EARTH
• NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION
• EARTH AND SPACE

PHYSICAL SCIENCES

• STATES OF MATTER
• FORMS OF ENERGY
• EXPLORING WAVES
• FREE-EXPLORING ELECTRICITY
• FORCE AND MOTION
• MAGNETS AND MAGNETISM

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