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🔬 4th Grade · Science4-PS4-1Unit 2: Waves & information

Wave models

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🎯 Objective: Students model waves with amplitude and wavelength.

Lesson outline

  1. Slinky and rope waves.
  2. Draw.
  3. Label.
  4. Exit: what is amplitude?

Lesson 1 of 3 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

4-PS4-1

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Grade 4 — typical US unit order

🏁 Unit goals

  • Model wave amplitude and wavelength
  • Model how light reflection lets us see
  • Compare ways to transmit information

✅ 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

🦫 Encyclopedia: Science🦫 Kids encyclopedia⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Waves & information”

  1. Wave models
  2. Seeing with reflected light
  3. Sending patterns

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