How Does Sound Travel in a String?

Engaging students in the pursuit of coherent explanations for a series of phenomena associated with the string phone can be productive in many ways. In terms of disciplinary core ideas, it can challenge students' matter-based conception of sound and promote the understanding of sound as process...

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Published in:Science and children 2023-10, Vol.60 (7), p.71-75
Main Authors: Shu, Gang, Tang, Xiaowei, Chen, Huimin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Core curriculum
Elementary School Science
Energy
Evidence
Grade 4
Kinetics
Motion
Musical Instruments
Science Curriculum
Strings
Students
Teachers
Vibration
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Summary:Engaging students in the pursuit of coherent explanations for a series of phenomena associated with the string phone can be productive in many ways. In terms of disciplinary core ideas, it can challenge students' matter-based conception of sound and promote the understanding of sound as process and energy. In terms of scientific practices, it allows students to construct explanations and identify evidence from observation to support or challenge different explanations. In terms of crosscutting concepts, it can provide great opportunities for students to differentiate patterns (observed relationship from single phenomenon) from mechanisms (underlying stories that can keep different phenomenon in coherence), understanding that causality may or may not be inferred from events happening together.
ISSN:0036-8148
1943-4812