Sound Travel
by Jamie Rapkiewcz
This is an 8th-grade lesson designed to help students refine their thinking about how sound travels through a medium. It includes a computer simulation to help students visualize particle movement and how it is impacted as a wave moves through the medium. Students will also construct an initial and a final model.
Lesson Grade Level
8th GradeLesson Plan Link/URL
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dDRkn08gh3f0jopfdk7lQGGFoDlthglA/edit?u…Related Content
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