Scaffolding Strategies for the Success of Learning Science

1. Grade 6 Science, Sound and Light

2. Resources

2.1. http://www.interacademies.net/File.aspx?id=25103

2.2. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/bubblus/2984367/6716556/71b1dd03a90b72a9c2b745192d73c879/What%20are%20Waves-%20(1).pdf

2.3. https://independencecharter.org/2015/01/28/ics-8th-graders-speak/

2.4. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/bubblus/2984367/6716556/06c49d4783067556810932686b945e29/sciskills5-6_hypothesis_qr_low.pdf

2.5. http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2011/03/the-10-most-destructive-tsunamis-in-history/

3. Standard: Integration of knowledge and ideas: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.6-8.7 Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a test with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g. in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table) Big Ideas: 1. Conceptual understanding and procedural skills are woven together for deeper understanding (Odaim, n. d.); 2. Application of concepts and skills to new situations (Odamis, n.d.); 3. An awareness that the knowledge produced by science is used by some technologies to create products to serve human needs (Harlen, 2010)

4. Big Ideas: 1. Waves are caused by transference of energy from one place to another; 2. Waves can be constructive or destructive, in how the energy transferred in the medium comes in contact with other surfaces

5. Object 1: Classify the three mechanical waves of the directions of the particles of the medium

5.1. Scaffold 1

5.2. Scaffold 2

6. Objective 2 : Calculate the value of the frequency, by applying the wave equation Speed = wavelength * frequency

6.1. Scaffold 1

6.2. Scaffold 2

6.3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JppViHtLNlc

7. Objective 4: Illustrate the meaning of the keywords by defining and using the terms correctly in the lab report

7.1. Scaffold 1

7.2. Scaffold 2

8. Objective 3: Classify the amplitudes of the varying tsunamis on a chart, by increasing severity

8.1. Scaffold 1

8.2. Scaffold 2

9. Objective 5 : Compose a structured, logical lab report, that contains an aim, materials, method, data, results and conclusion sections

9.1. Scaffold 1:

9.2. Scaffold 2: