WOODLAND HILLS HIGH SCHOOL LESSON PLAN
SAS and Understanding By Design Template
Name: Andrew Heffner
Date: 04/06/15
Length of Lesson: 21 Periods/3 Weeks
Content Area: AP Physics
STAGE I – DESIRED RESULTS
LESSON TOPIC:
BIG IDEAS: (Content standards, assessment anchors, eligible content)
objectives, and skill focus)
Simple Harmonic Motion, Oscillation, Amplitude, Period,
Frequency, Phase Angle, Simple Pendulum, Physical
Pendulum, Damping, resonance, Mechanical Wave, Medium,
Transverse, Longitudinal, Intensity, Interference,
Superposition, Boundary Conditions, Standing Waves, Nodes,
Antinodes, Fundamental Frequency, Harmonics, Loudness,
Pitch, Timbre, Beats, Doppler Effect, Shock Wave,
3.2.10.B5.1: Understand that waves transfer energy without transferring matter.
3.2.10.B6.1: Explain how energy follows predictable patterns defined by laws.
3.2.10.B7.4: Formulate and revise explanations and models using logic and evidence.
S11.A.3.3: Compare and analyze repeated processes in patterns.
S11.C.2.1: Analyze energy sources and transfer of energy, or conversion of energy.
All simple harmonic motion can be explained using force and torque.
Objects that move in simple harmonic motion can result in the production of waves
that travel through space.
UNDERSTANDING GOALS (CONCEPTS):
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
The simple
harmonic motion
of an object can be quantitatively
described
using
the sine and cosine trig functions.
Simplest harmonic motion can be characterized by one part, an inertial mass,
which remains in one vicinity while oscillating about an average position.
The oscillatory behavior results from the interplay of two opposite tendencies:
a return force and an inertial mass. The return force tries to return the inertial
mass to the resting position, while the inertial mass resists changes in motion.
Waves produced by
simple harmonic
motion interact
with other
waves
and matter and
result in the phenomena of superposition, interference,
reflection, refraction, and resonance.
Mechanical and electromagnetic waves are described in terms of wavelength,
amplitude, velocity, and frequency and can be produced by objects in harmonic
motion or electrical circuits.
Traveling waves transfer energy exerted as force to distant objects that absorb
or reflect the traveling waves.
What causes a spring to oscillate?
How much energy is in an oscillator?
How can I describe SHM in words?
What is wave motion, and how is it produced?
What happens when waves collide?
What properties of waves are related to the sounds I hear?
How does emitter velocity affect the production of waves?
VOCABULARY:
STUDENT OBJECTIVES (COMPETENCIES/OUTCOMES):
Simple Harmonic Motion, Oscillation, Amplitude, Period,
Frequency, Phase Angle, Pendulum, Resonance, Mechanical
Wave, Medium, Transverse, Longitudinal, Intensity,
Interference, Superposition, Standing Waves, Nodes,
Antinodes, Fundamental Frequency, Harmonics, Loudness,
Pitch, Timbre, Beats, Doppler Effect.
Students will be able to:
…Define simple harmonic motion and its causation.
…Describe SHM in terms of Amplitude, Period, Frequency, and Wavelength.
…Compare the wave functions of amplitude, velocity, acceleration, and force.
…Identify and calulate the total energy in an oscillation system.
…Contrast transverse and longitudinal waves.
…Describe the superposition of waves at boundaries and in collisions
…Calculate the fundamental frequency of standing waves, with nodes and antinodes
…Apply understanding of waves to the perception of sound in multiple ways
STAGE II – ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE
PERFORMANCE TASK:
Oscillator Graphing Task
Doppler Effect Demo
Slinky-Wave Lab
Rubber Band/Tube Investigation
OTHER EVIDENCE:
Exit Slips, Interactive Polls, HTML5 Concept Check Results
Peer Review & Argumentation, MOPS Codes
STAGE III: LEARNING PLAN
INSTRUCTIONAL
PROCEDURES:
MATERIALS AND
RESOURCES:
DO NOW : Daily Collins
Warm-Up Questions
ML : Direct Instruction
Examples with demos and
student participation
GP : Lab investigations,
reasoning skill tasks
IP : Physics Interactives, MOP
Modules
FA : Peer Review and
discussion of lab results, epolling, exit slips, individual
reflective writing.
Springs of many sizes. Masses,
slinkies, sinusoidal graphs,
rubber bands, sound
equipment, tuning forks.
INTERVENTIONS:
ASSIGNMENTS:
Students will be working on
the board on examples and
present throughout unit.
Multiple hand-on labs
Students will be working in
cooperative groups
Online Practice
Jigsaw practice of analysis
Homework
Homework packets, MOPS
directions, PP presentations,
AP Exam Practice Questions
Peer tutor partners
Physics Lab Tutoring
Procedural writing prompt
within the discipline.
Edmodo Supplementals
Lab reports
MOPS Concept Checks
Physics Interactives