Pre-teaching interview

Day 1

Eliciting students’ ideas about sound from musical instruments.

Day 2  

Eliciting students’ ideas about sound from tuning forks.

Day 3 & 4

Building background knowledge and making sense of waves, energy, sound qualities, and hearing.

Day 4

Building background knowledge and making sense of waves, energy, sound qualities, and hearing. Revising initial models of sound by adding content knowledge.

Day 5 & 6 

Making Sense of Sound Waves: Helping Students See Compressions, Pitch, and Volume The Rubens’ Tube: Seeing Evidence for Compressions

Day 6 

Making Sense of Sound Waves: Helping Students See Compressions, Pitch, and Volume GarageBand: Using Technology to Collect Data about Pitch & Volume

Day 7 

Using evidence to construct scientific explanations of pitch & volume of sounds – small group project

Day  8

(continued from Day 7) Using evidence to construct scientific explanations of pitch & volume of sounds – small group project

Day 9

Constructing evidence-based explanations for the differences in sounds heard at a concert – individual assessment

Post teaching interview

Tool Systems to Support Progress toward Expert-Like
Teaching by Early Career Science Educators

2008-2013 Discovery K-12 Grant
National Science Foundation No. DRL-0822016