HEAT, LIGHT AND SOUND

Topic: Energy: Heat, Light and Sound Year: 8 UNIT GUIDE Description: This unit is designed to encourage students to investigate the properties of energy: heat, light, and sound. Through interesting activities and experiments, research projects, class discussions, and demonstrations the students will understand and explain the importance of energy. Topic Explained: Energy appears in different forms including movement (kinetic energy), heat and potential energy, and causes change within systems(ACSSU155) Light and sound are produced by a range of sources and can be sensed (ACSSU020) Heat can be produced in many ways and can move from one object to another (ACSSU049) Use scientific knowledge and findings from investigations to evaluate claims (ACSIS234) Communicate ideas, findings and solutions to problems using scientific language and representations using digital technologies as appropriate (ACSIS148) Teaching Area: Science

Objectives: Students will research the different forms of energy. The student will discover ways energy changes from one form to another. Students will investigate the movement of light. The student will create sound from vibrations in matter and examine ways to change loudness and pitch and how sound travels at different rates through materials.

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Learning Objectives (AusVELs)

Week by Week Activities and Resources inclusive of Acad. Lit ICT Resources HEAT LIGHT AND SOUND

Work requirements and Assessment tasks

Heat - Describe, explain and give relevant examples Conduction, convection and radiation, and the effects of these. (use particle model) (see lesson plan attached) Recognising that potential energy is stored energy Investigating different forms of energy in terms of the effects they cause, such as gravitational potential causing objects to fall and heat energy transferred between materials that have a different temperature

Brainstorm what do you know already? Vocab continual through-out the chapter, define and get them to create their own glossary etc.
Research 1 of the below forms of energy in groups and present to the class: Light energy Kinetic energy Electrical energy Mechanical energy Chemical energy Nuclear energy Sound energy Thermal energy (heat) Research 1 of the below forms of energy in groups and present to the class: Light energy Kinetic energy Electrical energy Mechanical energy Chemical energy Nuclear energy Sound energy Thermal energy (heat) Flow charts of energy change, investigate how energy is constantly changing from one type to another.

Class discussion

Research project

Types of Energy the different forms of energy Using digital technologies to construct a range of text types to present science ideas

Research project, and a 5 minute presentation about the energy to the class.

4 Illustrate changes between different forms of energy

Experiment with different mechanical items (torch, blender, hair straightener) and write down the energy change

Light how the theory of light has been developed, the electromagnetic spectrum

Light the movement of light, how lenses and mirrors affect light (refer to lesson plan attached) Light darkness

Investigate the history of light theory wave lengths Visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. Compare with Ultraviolet and Infrared Investigation into light and how lenses and mirrors change the path light takes. Vocab concave / convex / reflection / refraction Learn how your eyes adjust to the dark What is total darkness?

Participate in class discussion Complete workbooklet

Report on experiment write up of results for light investigation.

Hand in a piece of writing that describes what darkness is, what you would see in complete darkness with no light, would your eyes adjust to this. Before the investigation into the topic and after the investigation. (Literacy approach) Report on experiment write up results on building a speaker. Complete worksheet. Complete work Unit test Summative Assessment numerical test score.

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Sound energy how do we hear, echolocation, Doppler effect, Heat, Light and Sound Excursion (refer to Lesson Plan attached) Heat, light and Sound revise unit Heat, light and sound unit test

Make a speaker paper, wire coil, magnet Excursion to the lighting show at Science Works Chapter questions Refine vocab list Complete test