SCI-4-Module 5 Quarter 3
SCI-4-Module 5 Quarter 3
Science
Quarter 3 - Module 5
Lesson 2 : How Light, Heat and Sound
Travels
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Science – Grade 4
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Quarter 3 – Module 5: How Heat, Light and sound Travels
First Edition, 2021
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What I Need to Know
What I Know
Directions: Read each sentence carefully. Choose the letter of the correct
answer. Write them in your answer sheet.
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3. If the sound is to travel through a wooden table and a metal table, where
would it travel faster and why?
a. Through the wooden table because its molecules are closer
to each other.
b. Through the metal table because its molecules are closer to
each other.
c. Through the wooden table because its molecules are farther
to each other.
d. Through the metal table because its molecules are farther to
each other.
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8. When we are in the classroom, which of the following sound may reach
our ears first?
a. Sound from tapping the table.
b. Ring of the bell from the principal’s office.
c. Whisper of your classmate seated behind the room.
d. Chirps of a bird nearby acacia tree.
9. Which of the following shows proper way of protecting oneself from the
heat of the sun?
a. Wearing protective clothing like long sleeves if you are working
under the sun.
b. Drink plenty of water to keep hydrated during sunny day.
c. Use wide-brimmed hat when working in the fields.
d. All of the above.
10. Light travels in a ____ line when it passes through a single medium.
a. Curve c. Zigzag
b. Straight d. Wave
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What’s In
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What’s New
Directions: On the line, write what kind of heat transfer is taking place.
Use convection, conduction, and radiation to fill in the blanks.
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What is It
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The heat from hot water travels to the ladle by direct contact.
The water and the ladle are composed of small particles called
molecules. Heat makes the molecules in the object move faster.
The fast movements of the water molecules make the cooler ladle
molecules move fast, too. As the fast-moving particles collide with
the slow-moving particles, energy is transferred. As a result, more
molecules move fast. This movement of water molecules continue
until heat is spread uniformly throughout the materials.
There are materials that allow heat to flow easily, we call them
conductors. Metals are good conductors. That is why we use them as
cooking utensils because heat moves fast through the metal pan to the
food. There are materials through which heat passes slowly or not at all.
We call these insulators. Some good insulators are wood, plastic, and
ceramic.
The air surrounding the candle is warm while the air surrounding
the ice cubes is cold. As air is heated by the lighted candle, the air
particles acquire energy and move faster and farther apart from
one another. Warm air becomes light. It rises because gravity
cannot pull it. Cold air is heavy because the air particles are close
to one another. Cold air sinks because gravity cannot pull it. Cold
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air sinks and pushes the warm air upwards. This process is known
as convection. Convection is the transfer of heat by the movement
of the heated parts of a liquid or gas.
When you stand before a bonfire or a stove you feel warm. The heat from
the bonfire traveled in waves through space to your body. Your body
absorbs the heat so it will become warm. This method of heat transfer is
called radiation.
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Science Fact File
Heat is given off whenever energy is being used. The more heat energy
an object has, the faster its molecules move. You cannot see heat energy,
but you can detect evidence of heat transfer. If you need evidence of
thermal energy or heat in your life, just feel your arm. Your body generates
heat 24 hours a day!
Light Travels
What is light? Is it matter or is it energy? Is it a particle or is it a
wave? Do you know that for centuries, scientists disagreed about the
nature of light?
Sir Isaac Newton in his corpuscular theory of light thought that light
is made up of particles that travel through space on a straight line. On
the other hand, Christian Huygens, a Dutch physicist, thought that light is
made up of waves like that of water waves. This is called the wave theory
of light.
When scientists discovered the interference of light, they thought they
had proved that light consists of waves. They felt that particles did not act
this way. Yet, at that time, scientists believed that waves must travel
through a medium. They could not explain how waves of sunlight travelled
to the earth through a vacuum or space. Later, it was found that an
electromagnetic wave, such as light, could travel through a vacuum.
Electromagnetic waves are disturbances caused by both electric and
magnetic fields. According to James Clerk Maxwell, light is that small part
of the electromagnetic spectrum which affects our vision. Light is
propagated in space as electromagnetic waves. This is known as
electromagnetic wave theory of light.
Light always travels in a straight line when going through a single
medium, any substance through which a light wave can travel. In some
media, such as air, light travels quickly. In other media, such as water and
glass, light travels more slowly.
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The picture above shows how light behaves. Two experiments are used
to demonstrate how light travels in straight lines. In the first example, the
presenter arranges three pieces of card, with holes in, in an uneven line.
The light stops and cannot travel through all three cards. When she
arranges the holes in a straight line, the light can travel through.
Whether it is traveling through air, water, glass, diamond, a smoky
Broadway stage, or any other transparent substance (or in nothing — the
vacuum of space), light travels in a straight path until it encounters a
different medium. So straight that analogies fail — the path of light is the
Ultimate Straight Line.
Know This
When does light behave as a particle? When does it behave as a wave?
In general, if light interacts with light such as in interference, it manifests
wave behavior. If light interacts with matter like in the photoelectric effect,
the particle behavior is strongly manifested.
Sound
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there, does it make any
sound?
Sound is a form of energy that causes particles to vibrate back and
forth. How would you answer the question about the tree falling in the
forest?
When the tree hits the ground, it causes the particles in the air to
vibrate. Vibration is a rapid movement back and forth. The tree creates
vibrations in the air as it falls. The vibrations spread out in all directions.
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If the vibrations in the air reach you, your eardrum will vibrate, and you
will hear the tree falling.
When objects make sound, they move back and forth. This movement is
called vibration. Without vibration there will be no sound. There are Three
components needed for sound to be heard:
• A source – where the sound is made.
• A medium – something for the sound to travel through.
• A receiver – something to detect the sound.
Have you ever placed your hands over your ears because someone
was yelling? The loudness or intensity of a sound depends on the energy
used. The more energy used, the louder the sound. You use a lot more
energy to yell than you do to whisper. The same is true with all sounds:
the more energy expended, the louder the sound.
A sound wave travels at different speed through a different media.
As it travels, sound wave is created in response to a vibration and how
easily they move back to their original position. Another cause is how
strongly the particles are attached or attracted to each other.
There are imaginary waves produced when an object vibrates. We
call these sound waves. When a sound is produced, sound waves are
also produced.
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Very slowly wave travels through air
Read This…
What’s More
Direction: Write the letter of the correct answer on your answer sheet.
1. What energy transfer is shown through direct contact of the heat source
and the body receiving the heat?
a. conduction
b. convention
c. radiation
d. heat
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2. Which of these activities show heat transfer by radiation?
a. boiling egg
b. refrigeration
c. heating the wire
d. lighting the room with a bulb
7. Which of the following would be most likely to transmit sound the best?
a. steel in cabinet
b. water in the ocean
c. air in your classroom
d. water in a swimming pool
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8. What is the main reason why you can hear noises a long distance away
over water at night?
a. There are fewer other noises at night.
b. Water conducts sound better at night.
c. Sound bounces off water better at night
d. Sound waves are bent towards the cool air over the water.
9. Sound waves cannot travel in ______________.
a. air
b. water
c. steel
d. vacuum
10. When light travels from air to glass its speed
a. increases.
b. remains the same.
c. decreases.
d. increases then decreases.
a. Did the bowl’s temperature change as the hot water was poured
into it? ____________
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e. So, was there a transfer of heat? __________
Independent Assessment 1
A. Directions: Write True if the statement is true, False if it is not.
_______ 1. Heat is caused by rapidly moving molecules.
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Independent Activity 2
Why do some objects get hot easily when placed under the heat of
the sun? How heat transferred from one object to another? Let’s
find it out!
1. What do you think will happen to the exposed end of the spoon
after 5 minutes?
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Independent Assessment 2
Independent Activity 3
Directions: Read and study the situations, then answer the follow-up
questions.
Have you ever tried aiming a flashlight at distant star on a dark night?
Where you able to follow through the path of light to the star you have
pointed? If not observe the picture below.
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1. Did the hand stop the light?
2. Can the light bend around my hand and shine onto the wall?
3. Do you think that light travels in a straight line or curve line?
4. What can you say about the way light travels?
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2. How do you describe the movement of the ruler?
Independent Assessment 3
Directions: Completion Type. Write the word or expression which best
completes the meaning of the following statements.
1. Sir Isaac Newton in his ____________ of light thought that light is made
up of particles that travel through space on a straight line.
8. Heat travels through solid, liquid, and gas. It transfers from a _____ to
a ________________ object.
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9. Cold air sinks and pushes the warm air upwards. This process is known
as __________________.
3. When is the best time for us to dry our clothes outdoors, during sunny
day or cloudy day? Why?
4. Staying too long under the sunlight may damage our skin due to the
radiation. What must we do to protect our skin from being hurt by the heat
of the sun?
2. The light that strikes a thick cardboard bends and find another way to
pass through it. ___
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3. Light rays could not be blocked, and they could pass through all types
of materials since they travel on a straight line. ___
1. When the sound travels through solid. The vibration of the particles
occurs ____?
A. Fast C. moderately
B. Slowly D. irregularly
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D. The travel of solid is not affected by the medium through which it
travels.
What I Can Do
Directions: Analyze the situation by answering the follow- up question.
A B
2. What will be most likely to happen if the light used by big buses or other
modes of transportation was placed on the sides of the vehicles instead
of being placed in the front?
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3. Enumerate activities where conduction, convection or radiation is used
by man.
Assessment
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Conductors Insulators
B. Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write your answer
on a separate sheet.
1. Sound waves travel faster in water than in air because water has a
greater ___________.
a. density.
b. elasticity.
c. number of molecules.
d. volume.
Additional Activities
2. Ask a family member to gently tap the other end of the table with a
pencil or a ruler. What happens?
3. Then ask your mother or any member of the family to gently tap the
other end of the table but this time make sure that your ear is above the
other end of the table. What happens?
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2. C 2. C 2. Radiation 2. d
3. D 3. A 3. Radiation 3. b
4. A 4. B 4. Radiation 4. d
5. A 5. A 5. Conduction 5. c
6. D 6. Convection
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7. B 7. Radiation 7. a
8. A 8. Conduction 8. d
9. D 9. Conduction 9. d
10. B 10. Conduction 10. C
Independent independent independent independent
Activity 1 assessment 1 activity 1 assessment 2
*Answers will be based 1. True * answers may vary 1. C 6. I
On the pupil’s activity 2. True 2. I 7. I
B. 3. False 3. C 8. I
1. conduction 4. True 4. I 9. I
2. convection 5. False 5. I 10. C
3. radiation B. answers may vary.
Independent independent
Activity 3 assessment 3
• Answers may vary 1. Corpuscular theory 6. Fastest
2. Christian Huygens 7. Mechanical waves
3. electromagnetic spectrum 8. Hot – cold
4. interference 9. Convection
5. louder 10. Heat
What I have Learned What I can do Additional
A.* answers may vary * answers may vary activities
B. C. * answers may vary.
1. true 1. a
2. false 2. b
3. false 3. a
4. true 4. b
5. true 5. C
Assessment
conductor insulator B
Metal pan Plastic fork 1. A
Nickel Black board 2. B
Copper wire Vase 3. D
Stainless spoon Mug 4. C
Cloth 5. b
hanger
basin
Answer Key
References
A. Books
Cohen, M. (1992). Discover science. Metro Manila: Academe Publishing
House.
B. Electronic Sources
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Abutay, Lelani R., Dinah C. Bonao, Editha B. Crucis. Science 4 Learners
Material Quarter 3, Chapter 1 Effects of Force on Objects: First Edition,
Department of Education, 2015
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