Name:

Period:

Interactive web assignment EM waves:

Progress through all of the screens.
1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/z66g87h/activity Click through this informative animation
about the electromagnetic spectrum and complete the activities. Next complete the test.
2. http://www.ck12.org/book/CK-12-Physical-Science-For-Middle-School/r3/section/20.0/
Watch the videos as you scroll through the listed sections of the 2 chapters: 20.1, 20.3 (be sure to watch the
video on microwaves, infrared, visible light, and Gamma rays), 21.1 & 21.3. Also complete the interactives.
Questions: From 20.1: Does an electromagnetic wave lose energy when it travels in a vacuum/outer space?
Does it lose energy when it travels through a medium? What is a photon? 20.3: List three uses of radio waves.
How are X-rays and gamma rays used in medicine?
3. Watch this video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atnjo7dD_bA: On the back of this sheet list
what you learned in at least 3 sentences.
4. Complete the EM Wave Hand-out www.darvill.clara.net/emag

Common misconceptions: Students may think that the regions of the electromagnetic spectrum have distinct boundaries, as states
and countries do. However, the electromagnetic spectrum is continuous with no distinct boundaries between regions. Each region
overlaps with those on either side of it, so there are no exact boundaries where one region starts and the other stops. In a vacuum,
all light waves (the whole spectrum) travel at 3.00 × 108 m/sec (frequency and speed are not the same thing).

Name:
Period:
Interactive web assignment EM waves:
Progress through all of the screens.
1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/education/guides/z66g87h/activity Click through this informative animation
about the electromagnetic spectrum and complete the activities. Next complete the test.
2. http://www.ck12.org/book/CK-12-Physical-Science-For-Middle-School/r3/section/20.0/
Watch the videos as you scroll through the listed sections of the 2 chapters: 20.1, 20.3 (be sure to watch the
video on microwaves, infrared, visible light, and Gamma rays), 21.1 & 21.3. Also complete the interactives.
Questions: From 20.1: Does an electromagnetic wave lose energy when it travels in a vacuum/outer space?
Does it lose energy when it travels through a medium? What is a photon? 20.3: List three uses of radio waves.
How are X-rays and gamma rays used in medicine?
3. Watch this video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atnjo7dD_bA: On the back of this sheet list
what you learned in at least 3 sentences.
4. Complete the EM Wave Hand-out www.darvill.clara.net/emag
Common misconceptions: Students may think that the regions of the electromagnetic spectrum have distinct boundaries, as states
and countries do. However, the electromagnetic spectrum is continuous with no distinct boundaries between regions. Each region
overlaps with those on either side of it, so there are no exact boundaries where one region starts and the other stops. In a vacuum,
all light waves (the whole spectrum) travel at 3.00 × 108 m/sec (frequency and speed are not the same thing).