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This lesson plan is for a 9th grade conceptual physics class on speaker labs. Students will build their own speakers using materials like styrofoam plates, magnet wire, and magnets. The teacher will first demonstrate how a speaker works using electromagnetism and its components. Students will then work in groups to build their own speakers, choosing a variable to modify like coil size or magnet strength. They will test their speakers and answer questions about energy transfers and what affects volume and pitch. The lesson aims to help students understand mechanical waves and the role of electromagnetism in speakers.
This lesson plan is for a 9th grade conceptual physics class on speaker labs. Students will build their own speakers using materials like styrofoam plates, magnet wire, and magnets. The teacher will first demonstrate how a speaker works using electromagnetism and its components. Students will then work in groups to build their own speakers, choosing a variable to modify like coil size or magnet strength. They will test their speakers and answer questions about energy transfers and what affects volume and pitch. The lesson aims to help students understand mechanical waves and the role of electromagnetism in speakers.
This lesson plan is for a 9th grade conceptual physics class on speaker labs. Students will build their own speakers using materials like styrofoam plates, magnet wire, and magnets. The teacher will first demonstrate how a speaker works using electromagnetism and its components. Students will then work in groups to build their own speakers, choosing a variable to modify like coil size or magnet strength. They will test their speakers and answer questions about energy transfers and what affects volume and pitch. The lesson aims to help students understand mechanical waves and the role of electromagnetism in speakers.
Date: 4/10/15 Lesson Title: Speaker Lab Subject: Conceptual Physics Instruction time: 1 hr. 25 min. Students level by grade: 9th Standard(s) to be addressed:
Understand the properties and interactions of mechanical waves
Understand the role of the medium in the behavior or the wave
Enduring Understandings/Essential Questions targeted in this lesson:
What determines the volume and pitch of the sound coming from the speaker? What is the role of electromagnetism in a working speaker?
Learning Objectives for this lesson
Investigate the properties of mechanical waves
Explain the role of electromagnets in a speaker Identify the variables that affect loudness and # of back and forth movements/second
Identified Student needs and plans for differentiation:
Student choice, graphic organizers, modeling, grouping, and social learning are incorporated into the lesson to support different learning needs. Specific resources needed for this lesson: Styrofoam plates, scissors, magnetic wire, strips of paper, tape, strong magnets, hot glue, index cards cut in half, cardboard, radio to connect speakers to, and lab handout Instructional methods used in this lesson: Inquiry, modeling, discussion, and demonstration. Lesson Sequence: Hook:Playing music on control speaker Direct instruction/modeling: Review of electromagnetism: components and process, model how to build a speaker. Guided Practice: Group work, students choose a variable to change. Give examples of how they might change each variable.
Independent Practice: After testing their speakers
Check for understanding and scaffolding of student learning: Circulate around the room, using inquiry to check for understanding: How did your speaker sound compare to the control speaker? Assessment of/for learning: Inquiry.While students are testing their speaker ask them: What type of energy is represented by the vibrations you feel coming from the speaker? What energy transfer process is occurring? Which of the magnetic fields must be changing so that vibration occurs? What is causing the magnetic field to change? Closure of the lesson: Clean up and explaining what is happening between the permanent magnet and the coil of wire. Bridge to next lesson: Be thinking about what determines the volume and pitch of the sound coming from your speakers. How will you modify or adjust this lesson in the future? I will have a more efficient system for hot gluing the speakers together. Speeding up this process might give students more time to modify their speakers to have more evidence in supporting their answers to the investigating question.