Wave Properties, Digital and Analog Signals Review Puzzles NGSS Skills MS-PS-4

Looking for an engaging way for students to review physical science concepts? This set of 7 puzzles provides opportunities for students to enhance their critical thinking skills while exploring wave properties and signals. The puzzles are designed to align with the NGSS physical science standards.

NGSS Standards Addressed:

• MS-PS-4-1 Use mathematical representations to describe a simple model for waves that includes how the amplitude of a wave is related to the energy in a wave.
• MS-PS-4-2 Develop and/or use a model to describe that waves are reflected, absorbed, or transmitted through various materials
• MS-PS-4-3 Integrate qualitative scientific and technical information to support the claim that digitized signals are a more reliable way to encode and transmit information than analog signals

Topics Covered:

1. What falls but never hits the ground? Students use the diagram about the wavelength of different types of waves in the electromagnetic spectrum to answer the questions. Supports NGSS MS-PS-4-1 and 4-2
2. What vegetable are all the others afraid of? Students are asked to decide if the example given is information in an analog or digital format. Supports NGSS MS-PS-4-3
3. What was wrong with the wooden car? Vocabulary: absorption, compression, opaque, refraction, translucent, wave, longitudinal wave, transverse wave, rarefaction, reflection. Supports NGSS MS-PS 4-2
4. What do panda eat for breakfast? Students identify parts of both a longitudinal and transverse wave, identify the wave interactions with matter as reflection, refraction, or diffraction, and determine if a material is translucent or transparent. Supports NGSS MS-PS 4-2
5. What color do cats like? Students must determine if the statement applies to light waves, sound waves, or both light and sound waves. Statements include questions about the amplitude and brightness of a color and wavelength and pitch of sounds. Supports NGSS MS-PS-4-1 and MS-PS-4-2
6. What do scientists who study the Sun have? Students have to determine if the image shows reflection, diffraction, or refraction of a wave. Supports NGSS MS-PS 4-2
7. How do you cut the sea in half? Students have to determine if the image shows a material that is transparent, opaque, or translucent. Supports NGSS MS-PS 4-2

Usage Recommendations: These worksheets are versatile and can be utilized for independent practice, in stations, as homework assignments, or as part of emergency substitute teacher plans for unexpected schedule changes.

Contains

Cover, TOU, Teacher Notes (3 pages)

Puzzles (7 pages)

Answer Key( 7 pages)