MODELING SOUND WAVES

TAUGHT "AMBITIOUSLY"
Table Of Content
Why Models? example lesson-sound waves

What are Models? initial sound model

Revising Models revising sound model

Final Models final sound model

Why should teachers have students use
models? (Chapter 6 AST)
Models motivate students to ask questions/pose new
hypotheses. They also make student thinking visible
to teacher. Models can help students make sense of
their thinking. According to Ambitious Science
Teaching, the process of revising models helps
students see the “value of changing their thinking in
response to new ideas or evidence.”

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models are...
A representaiton of a system.

drawings, flow charts, equations, graphs,

computer simulations, or 3D models.

revisable representations of current

understanding.

Models should...
only include important features.

represent student thinking .

change with new evidence.

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 Revising Models
After a few lessons students should revise
their models. One method for revising
models that shows changes in thinking is
using color-coded sticky notes.

adding an idea

revising an idea

removing an idea

posing a new question

 Use Support structures in the final model
directions to help students show their learning.

Provide directions and a “gotta have it

checklist”
final models and Explicit directions help students
with learning disadvantages and
explanations benefit all students

Final models and written

explanations have students show Designate space for wrtting
their thinking at the end of This cues in students as to how
unit/lesson (140). much writing they are expected to
provide in their explanation.

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modeling
sound
Essential Question: How can sound
Show bass flex video to elicit
make objects move? ideas and peak interest

Anchoring phenomenon: Jaime

Vendera breaks a wine glass with
his voice unassisted.
Draw a model to explain
Show video of phenomenon phenomenon

 making the initial model

How does the sound of his voice break the glass?

Think Time model Explanation

Allow students think Have students draw what Have students write a
time after watching happens before-during- short explanation on the
videos. and after the glass back.
breaks.
 Gaining Knowledge
These activities will provide new learning that students will gain and
incorporate key ideas into their models.

Doodle Notes sound wave phet Mythbusters episode

 adding
We think __________ supports the
_______ part of our model. We will add
________ to make it more accurate.
removing
We think ________ contradicts our

Model Revision model and we want to remove _______.

questions we still/now have

After more learning opportunities
students are asked to make We now/still have questions about
revisions to their models. Students ________________________________.
put revisions on sticky notes and put
revising
on original model. This way we can
We think __________ supports part of
see a progression of their ideas and
our model. So we want to change
how new evidence has changed
_______________ to make it more
their thinking.
accurate.
making final draft
of model
At the end of the topic students
submit a final draft of their model.
Students are provided with a
checklist of things they should
have in their model and areas for
written explanation are provided.