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Light & Sound

Light & Sound

Hands-On Light and Sound Exploration

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Light & Sound invites students behind the scenes to build a stage set with Echo as their guide. Using lights, speakers, spotlights, and controls, learners design a performance space and explore how light and sound shape what an audience sees and hears.

Grades: 3rd-5th
Content hours:12-20
NGSS and CCSS aligned

Class Subscription: 1 teacher login, 28 student logins
School Subscription: 10 teacher logins, 300 student logins

 

 

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In Light & Sound, students join Echo, a curious and creative guide who helps them design a fully interactive stage set. Learners build a stage using lights, speakers, spotlights, panels, and controllers, then bring it to life through hands-on experimentation and augmented reality.

With Echo prompting each challenge, students test how light reflects, spreads, and creates mood, and how sound travels, vibrates, and fills a space. They might adjust spotlight angles, reposition speakers, swap materials, or tweak controls to improve clarity, reduce reflections, or create a dramatic effect. Each design choice leads to immediate visual and auditory feedback, encouraging students to test, revise, and try again.

The experience feels more like creative play than a traditional lesson, but the learning runs deep. Students develop a strong understanding of waves, energy, and systems thinking while practicing collaboration and problem-solving. MindLabs’ integrated digital notebook captures student designs, decisions, and reflections in real time, giving educators a clear view of student thinking.

Light & Sound is flexible enough for classrooms, after-school programs, museums, and camps, and supports NGSS-aligned physical science learning with minimal setup and maximum engagement.

What's included

Hardware:
Classroom set contains 7 card decks with access for 1 teacher and up to 28 students
School set contains 14 card decks with access for 10 teachers and up to 300 students

Software:
This product includes either a 1, 2, or 3-year license with access to the following:

LMS Platform that includes the following features:
Assign and manage student work
Create and save engineering design projects
Online Notebook for educator feedback and review
Synchronous class newsfeed
Collaborative class discussion and response
Visibility to student-entered self regulation and emotional control inputs
Visibility to student-entered collaboration feedback
Comment on student work
Professional Development Videos
Class Slides and Lesson Plans

Scope & Sequence

Resources

Product Specs

Subscription Required - 1, 2 or 3 year subscription required to unlock the curriculum and teacher resources.
Compatible Devices - Requires an iPad or tablet with internet access for the AR experiences.
Grade Level - Designed for 3rd to 5th grade
Standards Alignment - NGSS and CCSS
Classroom Setup - ideal for 1:1 or small group learning.

Download the FREE App in the App Store (iPad) or Google Play Store (phone or tablet).

Echo

Operation: Limelight

The city wasn’t always silent. Once, light danced across rooftops and music echoed through the streets, until Dr. Stonebreaker shut it all down, silencing every sound and dimming every light.

But one bot, Echo, refused to fade away. A performer and engineer, Echo used his knowledge of light and sound waves to bring the city back to life, one reflection, vibration, and signal at a time.

In this Light and Sound unit, students join Echo’s story-telling mission to liberate the city. Through stage design they’ll explore color, volume, brightness and tone by learning how waves reflect or transmit through interactive AR challenges and hands-on experiments.

Blending storytelling with discovery, this unit transforms classrooms into laboratories of creativity, where students learn that light and sound aren’t just science topics, but energy to connect and inspire.

Why Educators Love MindLabs

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Hands-On STEM Learning

Interactive activities align with NGSS standards while making science fun and accessible.

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Proven Engagement

Research shows MindLabs boosts student interest, creativity, and persistence in STEM subjects.

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Collaboration & SEL Built In

Students share kudos, track emotions, and document learning, fostering teamwork and reflection.

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Empowers Educators

Innovative metrics provide insights into student progress and key learning moments.