The World Communicates
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  The story of communications and optics from the time of the ancients, now and into the future.
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Lesson Plans
The unit is divided into 15 lessons, typically of 2 hours duration. The lessons may be split across a number of periods or taught as double periods as suits the timetable of your own school.
Lesson 1 - Introduction
Lesson 2 - Waves
Lesson 3 - Sound waves
Lesson 4 - More about sound
Lesson 5 - Measuring sound
Lesson 6 - Frequency & wavelength
Lesson 7 - Superposition
Lesson 8 - Electromagnetic waves
Lesson 9 - Reflection
Lesson 10 - Refraction
Lesson 11 - Total internal reflection
Lesson 12 - Inverse square law
Lesson 13 - Radio & TV
Lesson 14 - Electromagnetic spectrum
Lesson 15 - Digital Age
Lesson 16 - Student presentations
In each plan you can click on Student Notes to see brief students notes for the lesson in a new window.

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