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Light & Sound Vocabulary

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Science›Waves, Light & Sound|Ages 6—8|ID: mt_YPSx5pbpVl

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

Mastery Evidence

  • 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

Assessment Prompt

“If you held up a piece of frosted glass, could [child] say whether it's transparent, translucent, or opaque — and explain what that word means?”

Prerequisites0

No prerequisites — this is a foundational topic.

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