Sound Tube Experiment

 

Level 5

Pupils select the information they need for different purposes, check its accuracy and organise it in a form suitable for processing. They use ICT to structure, refine and present information in different forms and styles for specific purposes and audiences. They exchange information and ideas with others in a variety of ways, including using e-mail. They create sequences of instructions to control events, and understand the need to be precise when framing and sequencing instructions. They understand how ICT devices with sensors can be used to monitor and measure external events. They explore the effects of changing the variables in an ICT -based model. They discuss their knowledge and experience of using ICT and their observations of its use outside school. They assess the use of ICT in their work and are able to reflect critically in order to make improvements in subsequent work.

Next steps: The children are using data logging to investigate what happens to sound as it travels through a tube. They copied and pasted their graph into a Word template in order to write about it. The children reflected on their findings and could apply their results to draw a conclusion about the effect the tube had on sound. This could be developed further by some independent work on echoes.

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