Light, Sound and Waves Series

• Item # VLC016
• Copyright 2001
• For Grades 5-9
• 4x 20 minute Videos
• 4x Teacher's Guides

Specifically designed for the middle school science classroom, this 4-part series will help instructors teach difficult to understand concepts, differentiate instruction for diverse learners, and inspire the minds of students. Content is aligned to the curriculum and will help students prepare for the standardized science tests. Each 20-minute video includes on-screen questions, vocabulary words, and a 10-question quiz. The time saving teacher’s guide includes student-learning objectives, standards correlations, lesson plans, preliminary and post assessments, laboratory investigations, and vocabulary activities. Integrate media assets into lesson plans by showing the entire 20-minute videos, short clips, or multiple animations and images. Custom multi-media formats include h.264, Windows Media video, and DVD. Correlated to the NGSS.

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"...Combining concrete, real world examples with good computer graphics, the program defines and explores the concepts of reflection, translucence, color, and polarization..." -- Video Librarian May/June 2000

Aud: I, J, H. (R. Reagan)
Video Librarian
May/June 2000

Titles Include:

The Nature of Light

Students will learn about the different frequencies along the electromagnetic spectrum. Vivid animation is used to explore the visible spectrum of light and the colors it allows us to see everyday. ... [more]

Using Light

This video examines the various uses of light and the role of different types of lenses in light refraction. The way in which eyeglasses, contact lenses, and binoculars manipulate light to allow us... [more]

Sound

This program investigates sound, how it is produced, how it travels, its specific properties, and its everyday uses. This video also explores the different interactions between sound waves,... [more]

Waves

This video explores the characteristics of waves. It explains the speed of waves, how this value is calculated and the four basic interaction between waves. Other terminology includes: vibration,... [more]