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Properties of a wave A gold star indicates high-quality, inquiry-based activities that follow the PhET design guidelines.



Title Properties of a wave
Description
Answers Included No
Language English
Keywords amplitude, frequency, wavelength
Simulation(s) Wave on a String

Author(s) Jackie Esler
Contact Email jacqueline.esler@bvsd.org
School / Organization Boulder Valley School District
Date submitted 7/25/11
Date updated 7/25/11

Comments

I did add a few more HOT questions and put Tennessee standards at the top. I will be happy to email anyone a copy of my student worksheet if they like. I also changed the frequency settings in the final section to 50, 25 and 100. Using these, students can really see the relationship between frequency and wavelength. Kathleen   11/11/11

kathleen.miller@knoxschools.org: This was a wonderful lesson plan which I was able to use with all levels of 7th grade classes. The activity is well aligned to national science standards, and includes higher order thinking and data manipulation. I especially appreciated the fact that most of it is in Word format so I could tweak it for my purposes. Trish   11/13/11

Thank you for the idea and plans! They are so applicable to so many grade levels! Mrs   9/23/15

Glad you like this Gold star author's work. Since you liked this style of lesson, look for more Gold Star activities by Jackie Esler and others. Trish   9/28/15

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How did you use this activity or change it for your class? Answer keys are often not available because the activities are inquiry based and lead to multiple answers. Professionally constructive comments welcome.

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