Grade 4 Overall Expectations:
Assess the impact on society and the environment of technological innovations related to light and sound.
- Optical Engineering and the Science of Light (ebook – WPL databases)
- Light (ebook – Hoopla)
- The Light Bulb (ebook – Hoopla)
- Light Pollution (online resource – Kids National Geographic)
- Noise Pollution (online resource – National Geographic Encyclopedia)
Investigate the characteristics and properties of light and sound.
- Investigating Light (ebook – WPL database)
- Investigating Sound (ebook – WPL database)
- Experiments with Light (ebook – Hoopla)
- Ear-splitting Sounds and Other Vile Noises (ebook – WPL database)
- Science in a Flash: Light (ebook – Hoopla)
- Science in a Flash: Sound (ebook – Hoopla)
- Light (ebook – Hoopla)
- Sound (ebook – Hoopla)
- Measure Light During an Experiment (online resource – Science Buddies)
- Experiment with Acoustics (online resource – Science Buddies)
- What Does Sound Look Like? (evideo – YouTube)
- What is Sound? (evideo – YouTube)
- Light for Kids (online resource – Science Kids)
- What is Light? (evideo – YouTube)
Demonstrate an understanding of light and sound as forms of energy that have specific characteristics and properties.
- Sound (ebook – Hoopla)
- Light and Dark (online resource – BBC Bitesize)
- Sound and Vibration (online resource – BBC Bitesize)
- Sound (ebook – Hoopla)
- The Science of Light Waves (ebook – WPL database)
- The Science of Sound Waves (ebook – WPL database)
- Bill Nye: Light and Colour (evideo – YouTube)
- Light Up (online resource – TVO Kids)
- Sound (online resource – Scholastic Study Jams)
- Light and Sound (evideo – YouTube)