Unpacked Content
Scientific and Engineering Practices
Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking
Crosscutting Concepts
Cause and Effect
Knowledge
Students know:
- Waves are a repeating pattern of motion that transfers energy from place to place without overall displacement of matter.
- A simple wave has a repeating pattern of specific wavelength, frequency, and amplitude.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Use mathematics and computational thinking to solve for one wave component/variable when the other two are given.
- Predict the change in a wave as it passes through different media.
- Compare and contrast longitudinal and transverse waves.
- Construct ray diagrams as light is refracted or reflected through/ from different media.
- Label the components of a wave.
- Classify waves as electromagnetic, mechanical or surface.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- The wavelength and frequency of a wave are related to one another by the speed of travel of the wave, which depends on the type of wave and the medium through which it is passing.
Vocabulary
- Wavelength
- Frequency
- Period
- Amplitude
- Velocity
- Medium
- Longitudinal wave
- Transverse wave
- Surface wave
- Mechanical
- Refraction
- Light
- Sound
- Reflection
- Diffraction
- Interference
