Teach Science With Fergy

Engagement Through Application

Teaching Sound Waves – My Daily Schedule

Below you’ll find my daily unit walkthrough. However, if you’d like the resources that go along with the plans, you’ll be interested in my membership.

Inside my membership, you’ll get access to all the resources listed below and so much more, including

  • Over 1000 science lessons
  • 100+ video lesson walkthroughs
  • Additional day-by-day teaching outlines, activities, projects, quizzes, tests, and more all organized by subject and type

Go on, join us. You know you want to. Click here to learn more.

Day 1:

  • Teach Lesson 1 – Waves: An Introduction

Day 2:

  • Projects – These are the two activities I typically give during this unit. I only give one per year.
  1. Sound Intensity and Society Project – I typically give my students 2-3 weeks to complete this project
  2. The Silencer – I typically give my students 2-3 weeks to complete this project
  • Have students start the assigned project

Day 3:

  • Experimenting with Waves Activity – Day 1
  • Teach Lesson 2 – Reflection, Interference, and Transmission (Day 1)

Day 4:

  • Experimenting with Waves Activity – Day 2
  • Complete Lesson 2 – Reflection, Interference, and Transmission

Day 5:

  • Teach Lesson 3 – Standing Waves
  • Continue work on project

If you’d like access to all of these resources plus everything else I have in My Store, please consider joining my Membership Program. Click here to learn more about it.

Day 6:

  • Standing Waves Activity
    • 1/2 period
  • Teach Lesson 4 – Sound, Sound Energy and Speed (Day 1)

Day 7:

  • Lesson 1-4 Quiz Next Day
  • Teach Lesson 4 – Sound, Sound Energy and Speed (Day 2)
  • Sound applications – Ultrahaptics and Haptics –> Students research the following questions for about 10 minutes then we discuss it as a class. What I’ve done in the past is split the class into groups and have each group research one of the questions and then present their findings.
    1. What are they? Difference?
    2. How do they work?
    3. Where can you find them?
    4. What are their future applications?

Day 8:

  • Lesson 1-4 Quiz
  • Work Period / Catch-up Day

Day 9:

  • Sound, Sound Energy, and Speed Lab Station Activity

Day 10:

  • Tinnitus – Ringing in the Ears Reading
    • Students spend the period reading the article and answering the included questions

Day 11:

  • Teach Lesson 5 – Hearing and the Human Ear (Day 1)
  • Work on project

Day 12:

  • Lesson 5 – Hearing and the Human Ear (Day 2)
  • Work on project

Day 13:

  • Hearing and the Human Ear Digital Scavenger Hunt

Day 14:

  • Teach Lesson 6 – The Doppler Effect and Supersonic Travel
  • Work on project

Day 15:

  • Formula Sheet Prep for Unit Test (15 minutes)
  • Test Review
    • Waves and Sound Speed Quizzing

Day 16:

  • Waves and Sound Unit Test

If you’d like access to all of these resources plus everything else I have in My Store, please consider joining my Membership Program. Click here to learn more about it.