More Light & Sound Exploration

Today we added prisms to our immersion stations, as well as several more cool instruments and shadow puppets that Mrs. Fernandez brought in.

Room 408 has started noticing that we can change how light and sound behaves, that some things block light (scientists call it opaque), some things let some light through (scientists call it translucent), and that things are vibrating when they are making a sound.  We have started charting some of these "Big Ideas" and we're adding more noticings every day!

Rainn and Shealee were the first to notice vibrations and taught us about this "Big Idea."

Lucy has noticed that there are different "layers" in lots of the instruments we are exploring and that the sound changes based on the length of the "layer." These are the instruments that she has noticed what she calls "layers." Can you see them?

Ariah, Allie, and Keira noticed that when we touch an instrument the sound just stops right away.  They demonstrated with the Thunder Drum and taught us about their "Big Idea."

Here is another video of the second day of our Light & Sound Immersion.