Prepared by: H o n o r a t a Pe r e i r a Title: Wa s t e 4 Wa v e s
IMPLEMENT AND ADAPT THE ACTIVITY IN THE
CLASSROOM
What are the educational goals set for your students? How does the activity align with your curriculum?
The Waste4waves project aimed to demonstrate the
application of radio frequencies, using RFID tags and The project presented is part of the "Light and
disposable materials from our school's daily life to Radiation" module of the Physics subject, which
build musical instruments, based on the following aims to:
educational goals:
• Relate the energies of photons corresponding to
create a variety of representations of a challenge: the most common areas of the electromagnetic
diagrams, tables, graphs, equations, texts, spectrum and these energies to the frequency
reports, posters, models, using the most of light.
appropriate ICT;
carry out interdisciplinary projects, identifying
problems and posing key questions, articulating
science and technology in relevant economic,
cultural, historical and environmental contexts.
Image 1: RFID and Radiowaves.
Source: https://www.gta.ufrj.br/grad/08_1/rfid/Apresentao.html
THE FINAL PROJECT
This project involved a class of 16 physics students, that began by exploring Lenovo's
Activity Booklet, after that they select disposable materials like cups and spoons,
Briefly illustrate the working process, scraps of wool and gold paper, cardboard boxes and RFID tags. With these materials
materials used, and number of students they built handbells. With the tags integrated into an electrical circuit, and using an
involved: Arduino code and an RFID reader, they corresponded each frequency of the tags to a
musical sound.
.
Identifying radio waves in the electromagnetic spectrum;
Understand the working principle of RFID and their applications;
Competences developed and learning
Analyse and evaluate how to transform the frequencies emitted by RFID tags into
objectives achieved:
musical notes;
Build a model of an electrical circuit using arduino, an RFID reader and a buzzer.
Develop an Arduino programme;
Build a musical instrument from hand bells, using the disposable materials
It was chosen to create a musical instrument, with the purpose of welcoming the
How did you incorporate inclusivity in
students from Cabo Verde, with fun activities and they drew the musical notes on each
the working process?
bell, covering it with wool, so that people with low vision could recognize the musical
notes.
PROCEDURE – MATERIAL SELECTION
Image 2: RFID tag recovery. Image 3: Recovery of disposable cups. Image 4: Material selected.
PROCEDURE – PROTOTYPE CONSTRUCTION
Tags RFID Wooden spoons Placing wooden spoons in cups
Assembling the electrical
Assembling the Tags on the Collage of wool and beads om
circuit and placing it in a Cardboard box customization
Cups musical notes
cardboard box.
Image 5: Steps for building the prototype.
PROCEDURE – ELECTONIC CIRCUIT
A - RFID READER
B – BUZZER
C – ARDUINO UNO
D – CONNECTING WIRES
Image 6: Electronic Circuit.
PROCEDURE – ARDUINO PROGRAMMING
Image 7:Programming and bug fixing. Image 8: Readjustment of the electronic circuit.
PROCEDURE – ARDUINO PROGRAMMING
Dó-264 Hz
Ré-297 Hz
Mi-330 Hz
Fá-352 Hz
Sol-396 Hz
Lá-440 Hz
Si-495 Hz
Image 9: Correspondence between the frequency emitted by each tag and a musical note.
FINAL PROJECT
Image 10: Handbells
Image 11: Video “Music with Handbells”.
PROMOTING INCLUSION
Image 12: Music for all in classroom.
Image 13: Music with children from the Tábua Free Time Activities Center.
ANNEX
To find out more about our projects, check us out on our Science Club page and on social media.
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