Communicating Over a Distance Matching

1st Grade ScienceLight and Sound4 pages

About this worksheet

An engineering-style 1st grade science worksheet about sending messages with light and sound. Students match five problems, such as keeping ships away from rocks, to pictures of a lighthouse, handbell, flashlight, fire engine siren, and drum. They then mark whether each device uses light, sound, or both. The last page asks them to draw a device that could signal a friend across the playground. The answer key gives every match and lists sample designs, including a paper cup and string telephone.

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Curriculum objectives covered

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โ€œUse tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.*โ€

Design a Device is the design step on paper. The matching and sorting tasks before it give students five real devices to borrow ideas from.

What's inside this worksheet

Sending Signals Over a Distance

Five problems to join to device pictures, from calling students in for school to sending a marching beat across a big field. The key pairs a secret message in the dark with the flashlight.

Sorting Light and Sound

A table with Light, Sound, and Both columns for a lighthouse, school bell, flashlight, fire engine siren, and drum. The siren is the only Both.

Design a Device

Students draw a device they could build to send a signal across the playground, then check whether it uses light, sound, or both.

How teachers use it

Before a build day

Set the sheet the day before students build real devices. Their Design a Device drawing becomes the plan they bring to the materials table.

Discussion prompt

Ask why the fire engine siren is the only Both in the sort. Most students have seen its flashing lights but only think about the noise.

Playground test

Take the drawings outside and try a few across the real playground, such as two sticks banged together or a mirror that reflects the sun.

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