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Communications technologies

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A lesson plan for Grades 9–12 Physics

Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Appropriate grades
9–12
Subjects
science (general, physics and physical science), education technology (integrating technology)
Provider
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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In this lesson, students develop an understanding of how communication technology helps people communicate more information to more people in less time. Students explore a few innovative examples of technologies and then explain how they affect the patterns of sound or light into patterns of electricity. Science NetLinks provides links to helpful web resources and detailed instructions for completing the activity.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Computer Technology Skills (2005)

Grades 9–12

  • Goal 1: The learner will understand important issues of a technology-based society and will exhibit ethical behavior in the use of computer and other technologies.
    • Objective 1.02: Identify issues surrounding complex technology environments.
  • Goal 3SC — Science: The learner will use a variety of technologies to access, analyze, interpret, synthesize, apply, and communicate information.

Science (2005)

Grades 9–12 — Physics

  • Goal 1: The learner will develop abilities necessary to do and understand scientific inquiry.
    • Objective 1.01: Identify questions and problems that can be answered through scientific investigations.
    • Objective 1.02: Design and conduct scientific investigations to answer questions about the physical world.
      • Create testable hypotheses.
      • Identify variables.
      • Use a control or comparison group when appropriate.
      • Select and use appropriate measurement tools.
      • Collect and record data.
      • Organize data into charts and graphs.
      • Analyze and interpret data.
      • Communicate findings.
    • Objective 1.03: Formulate and revise scientific explanations and models using logic and evidence to:
      • Explain observations.
      • Make inferences and predictions.
      • Explain the relationship between evidence and explanation.
    • Objective 1.05: Analyze reports of scientific investigations of physical phenomena from an informed scientifically literate viewpoint including considerations of:
      • Adequacy of experimental controls.
      • Replication of findings.
      • Alternative interpretations of the data.
  • Goal 7: The learner will develop an understanding of wave motion and the wave nature of sound and light.
    • Objective 7.02: Describe the behavior of waves in various media.
    • Objective 7.03: Analyze the behavior of waves at boundaries between media:
      • Reflection, including the Law of Reflection.
      • Refraction, including Snell's Law.