Year-7 Physics Sound: Echoes and Ultrasound

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In this lesson students will explain what echoes are and how to reduce echoes. They will learn how to calculate distance based on echoes and to describe how sonar and ultrasound scans work.

Year-7 Physics Sound: Echoes and Ultrasound

In this Year-7 Physics Sound: Echoes and Ultrasound lesson, students will explain what echoes are and how to reduce echoes. They will learn how to calculate distance based on echoes and to describe how sonar and ultrasound scans work.

The slides include extension questions, and students can choose from a variety of different tasks.

This lesson includes:

  • Title slide with learning objectives
  • A starter activity
  • Group reading (literacy)
  • Keywords task (vocabulary: echo, reverberation, sonar, transmitter and receiver)
  • Task boxes
  • Numeracy task
  • Handout sheet task
  • Consolidation questions
  • Answer slides included for self-assessment

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Next Lesson: End of Topic Revision

Link to next lesson: Sounds - End of Topic Revision

This lesson covers the major topics from this unit and can be used to revise for end of topic tests or to address knowledge gaps identified in the end of topic assessments.


Lessons for Key Stage 3, Year 7 Physics Topic 2 Sound

  1. Waves
  2. Energy Transfer
  3. Loudness and Pitch
  4. The Ear
  5. Echoes and Ultrasound
  6. Sound End of Topic Revision Lesson

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