Unit 2 – Sound Progress Tracker

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Lesson _____
Question Source of Evidence

What
What isis happening
happening when speakers *Slow Motion Videos

when speakers
and instruments and
make sound
instruments make
sounds?

What we figured out (in words / pictures)

*We saw the sound sources vibrate Vibration

while making sound

*Vibrate = move back and forth or

shake
*Force is applied
*When there's no sound, there's no
*SS vibrates back and forth and makes sound
vibration *Eventually SS stops vibrating and producing sound
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Lesson _____
Question Source of Evidence

How do sound waves compare for Turn It Up! sound wave simulation
loud sounds vs. soft sounds?

What we figured out (in words / pictures)

(More Energy) (Less Energy)

(Loud sounds have waves with high amplitudes) (Soft sounds have waves with smaller amplitudes)
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Lesson _____
Question Source of Evidence

How do sound waves compare *Hitting The High Notes sound

for high-pitched sounds vs. low- simulation
pitched sounds? *Word Wall/ Class Posters
What we figured out (in words / pictures)

High-pitched sounds have Low-pitched sounds have low frequency.

waves w/ high frequency.
1 2 3 1

*Waves are closer together *Waves are far apart

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Lesson _____
Question Source of Evidence

Do we need air to hear sound? *Vacuum chamber video

*Under Water Rock Experiment

What we figured out (in words / pictures)

Sound can travel through something other than air and we don't need air to hear.
*Sound can travel through solids, liquids, and gases
*A vacuum is a space with absolutely nothing, even at the molecular level
*Sound can't travel through vacuums
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Lesson _____

Question Source of Evidence

*How can we model sound traveling - Visualizing Sound in a Medium simulation

through matter?
- Previous Science Classes

*What exactly is traveling across the - People representing molecules and sound source
medium?
What we figured out (in words / pictures)

*Sound is energy that comes from a vibrating sound source. The energy transfers through
mediums until it reaches a sound receiver.

*Sound can move more easily when the molecules in the medium are close together (Solids).

*Sound travels the slowest through gases because the molecules are far apart.
Lesson _____

Question Source of Evidence

What we figured out (in words / pictures)