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Science (2015) Grade(s): 1

SC15.1.1

Conduct experiments to provide evidence that vibrations of matter can create sound (e.g., striking a tuning fork, plucking a guitar string) and sound can make matter vibrate (e.g., holding a piece of paper near a sound system speaker, touching your throat while speaking).

Unpacked Content

Scientific and Engineering Practices

Planning and Carrying out Investigations

Crosscutting Concepts

Cause and Effect

Knowledge

Students know:

Sound can cause matter to vibrate.
Vibrating matter can cause sound.

Skills

Students are able to:

Conduct investigations to provide evidence that sound makes matter vibrate and vibrating matter makes sound.
Make observations that can be used as evidence about sound.

Understanding

Students understand that:

Sound can cause matter to vibrate.
Vibrating matter can cause sound.
There is a cause/effect relationship between vibrating materials and sound.

Vocabulary

vibrations/vibrate
matter
sound
evidence
experiments
conduct
create

Aligned Learning Resources

Sound StudyJam

Sound Vibrations

Vibration Causes Sound

Musical Instruments and the Science of Sound

Alternate Achievement Standard

NAEP Alignment

Design by Adaptive Theme