Perfect pitch…not so sure. Our class today was completely devoted to trying to pitch and how to it can be altered. Students were given different size bottles and asked to fill them up with water to achieve high and low pitches. They were also given tuning forks and asked to match the pitch of the…
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As we continue to talk about the properties of waves, today my students constructed some good ole’ fashioned telephones using string and cups. These telephones were used to demonstrate the point that sound can travel through mediums as a disturbance or a vibration. In this video above, my students used their voices as the disturbance…
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“Ya see that? That’s a wave!” Today we shifted gears a bit as we start to focus on sound waves. Today we discussed how sound waves are caused by vibrations that create disturbances in nearby air particles. Now these disturbances that we talk about are the actual “sounds” that we hear all around us. The…
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Congratulations! You made it to Friday…I thought I would provide a little comic relief and some Friday music to coast you into your weekend. Enjoy. Mr. McClung
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As our unit on electricity and magnetism mercifully comes to a end, we are now gearing up to start a new unit on sound and light. The past two days we have been focusing on the properties of waves to gain a basic understanding of how they work. On Monday we focused on two types…
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As a part of semi annually “Beat Ramay Week”, we held a pep rally that featured our own version of American Idol. Various staff members showed up to give their versions of some classic musical numbers…the video above is of yours truly singing Mylie Cyrus, enjoy. Mr. McClung
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Last Friday, we held our annual talent how here at Woodland. The talents displayed ranged from singing, classical piano, dancing, and garage rock bands. Contestants included 8th & 9th grade students as well as some of our very own staff. Below are some of the highlights from our talent show…enjoy. Ninth grade student playing piano….
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Today we spent some time talking about how you can turn electrical energy into mechanical energy. Students were asked to build a simple electric motor using Play-Doh, paper clips, copper wire, and a battery. The video above is from my two of my first period students identifying the parts of their motor.
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Series circuits explained Today my students took a further look at circuits. We focused on two different types of circuits, series and parallel. Today we discussed how these two circuits are built then my students spent sometime constructing their own circuits. The video above is from one of my students explaining a series circuit. Parallel…
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As we continue to talk about electrical currents, today we held a class lab to demonstrate the affects diameter and length of an electrical wire have on a current. To demonstrate this we used a balloon to simulate our voltage source, our rubber tubing served as our conductor (wire), and the air inside the balloon…
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