Showing posts with label energy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label energy. Show all posts

Monday, October 6, 2014

Sound Experiments

This week in science our focus was energy. We discussed light, heat, and sound energy and how they can change things.  We did some really fun experiments this week to explore these forms of energy. 
For heat energy we used an air popper to see what would happen as corn kernels were heated.  It was quite tasty! For light energy we taped a cut out shape  to a piece of construction paper and then put it in a window toward the light.  After a few days we realized that the construction paper that was not covered by the shape faded from the light.  For sound energy we discussed vibration and how a faster vibration creates a higher pitch and a slower vibrations makes a lower pitch.  We  had a lot of fun exploring percussion instruments this week. Here are some of the pictures from our exploration!