Light & Sound Vocabulary
Name and use vocabulary for how light and sound behave — light source, transparent, translucent, opaque, shadow, reflect, vibration, pitch, volume — and apply these terms correctly when describing observations about how light travels and how sounds are made and changed
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“If you held up a piece of frosted glass, could your child say whether it's transparent, translucent, or opaque — and explain what that word means?”
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- Activity. Name and use vocabulary for how light and sound behave — light source, transparent, translucent, opaque, shadow, reflect, vibration, pitch, volume — and apply these terms correctly when describing observations about how light travels and how sounds are made and changed
What to notice. Correctly classify a set of materials as transparent, translucent, or opaque and explain each term • Explain what causes a shadow using the words 'opaque' and 'light source' correctly • Describe what changes the pitch or volume of a sound using vibration vocabulary
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If you held up a piece of frosted glass, could your child say whether it's transparent, translucent, or opaque — and explain what that word means?
Name and use vocabulary for how light and sound behave — light source, transparent, translucent, opaque, shadow, reflect, vibration, pitch, volume — and apply these terms correctly when describing observations about how light travels and how sounds are made and changed
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- Correctly classify a set of materials as transparent, translucent, or opaque and explain each term
- Explain what causes a shadow using the words 'opaque' and 'light source' correctly
- Describe what changes the pitch or volume of a sound using vibration vocabulary
“If you held up a piece of frosted glass, could your child say whether it's transparent, translucent, or opaque — and explain what that word means?”
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- Type
- Language
- Subject
- Science
- Domain
- Waves, Light & Sound
- Age range
- Ages 6–8