Lightning Before Thunder

This lesson was originally a 3 day exploration in the properties of light waves versus sound waves. While writing this post I realized this is exactly what students need to know to understand why we see lightning before we hear thunder. I plan to tinker with this idea more next year to better connect the phenomena to the student explorations.

Digital Killed the Radio Star

This is my first attempt at integrating MS-PS 4-3 "Waves and their application in technologies for information transfer".

Drop it Like its Hot (a thermal energy transfer lesson)

This is very much a WORK IN PROGRESS! I identified some much needed areas of improvement, but I'd love to hear your suggestions/ feedback. If you try it out, let me know your experiences. A huge thank-you to Sarah Fink for the original idea. I ran with it.... we'll see where it lands.