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🔬 1st Grade · Science1-PS4-4Unit 1: Light & sound

Communicate over distance

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🎯 Objective: Students design a device that uses light or sound to send a message.

Lesson outline

  1. Cup phones or flashlight codes.
  2. Build.
  3. Test.
  4. Exit: share your design.

Lesson 5 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

1-PS4-4

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Grade 1 — typical US unit order

🏁 Unit goals

  • Show that vibrating materials make sound
  • Show that objects can be seen only when lit
  • Design a device that uses light or sound to communicate

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🕵️ Secret code maker🦫 Encyclopedia: Science🦫 Kids encyclopedia⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Light & sound”

  1. Sound is vibration
  2. Seeing needs light
  3. Light through materials
  4. Shadows
  5. Communicate over distance

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