Light & Sound Vocabulary
Science · Waves, Light & Sound · language
Name and use vocabulary for how light and sound behave — light source, transparent, translucent, opaque, shadow, reflect, vibration, pitch, volume — and apply these terms correctly when describing observations about how light travels and how sounds are made and changed
What mastery looks like
- Correctly classify a set of materials as transparent, translucent, or opaque and explain each term
- Explain what causes a shadow using the words 'opaque' and 'light source' correctly
- Describe what changes the pitch or volume of a sound using vibration vocabulary
Check your understanding
If you held up a piece of frosted glass, could Light & Sound Vocabulary say whether it's transparent, translucent, or opaque — and explain what that word means?
Prerequisites
None — this is a foundational concept.