During the 3rd quarter, students created a shadow puppet show by engineering a musical instrument out of recycled materials and making shadow puppets.
Before building the instruments students learned that sounds are made of vibrations and sound can cause materials to vibrate.
Students experimented with different instruments like rulers, palm pipes, and kazoos to learn about different types of pitch and rhythm that you can make with sound.
Students experimented with vibrations through a rope simulation.
Students went to our outdoor sound garden to experiment with recycled instruments.
Finally, students were ready to create their instruments out of recycled materials that they brought from home.
After the instruments were created, it was time to learn about light. Students learned about light source, light blocker, and a surface needed to create shadows. They experimented with light and shadows. Then they got ready to put on the shadow puppet show.
After practices and trying out our shadows and instruments, we were ready to put on a show with light and sound!
We really enjoyed this science unit!
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