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Message Cards in the Puppet Workshop

Use puppet workshop observations to choose parts, read a simple message code, and design a device that sends a message across a distance.

Grade 1ScienceInteractive · Printable

Aligned to1-PS4-4

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1 NGSS standard
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14 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 1
Subject: Science
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer, Drawing

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students identify parts that help a light or sound device send a message over a distance.
Students use observations to compare message devices and suggest an improvement.
Students plan a simple device that sends a coded light or sound message.

How to use

Read the workshop notes aloud and have students point to evidence before answering. Accept dictated sentences for the written response.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

1-PS4-4

Design a simple device that uses light or sound to send a message over a distance.

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Message Cards in the Puppet Workshop

Use observations to plan a light or sound message device.

The puppet workshop test

Listen to the workshop notes. Use the notes and pictures to answer the questions.

A Test at the Museum

Jada and Ren worked in the puppet workshop at a children's museum. They needed a way to send a message from the button table to the puppet stage. The tables were 8 child steps apart.

They tried two small devices. For the light device, a lamp sat in a basket. Jada lifted a paper flap over the lamp. One bright flash meant WAIT. Two bright flashes meant COME. Ren saw the flashes and wrote the message.

For the sound device, a bell hung inside a cup. Jada pulled a string to ring it. Three rings meant STOP. Ren wrote the message after listening.

Jada and Ren sent five coded messages with each device. Ren wrote the light messages correctly 4 times. Ren wrote the bell messages correctly 3 times. Visitors were talking during both tests.

Sort the pictures by the job each part had in the tested model.