This week our classroom turned into a mini-lab as students rotated through four investigation stations exploring how waves behave. Rather than being told the answers, they observed ripple tanks to question whether matter or energy moves, tested mirrors to uncover the law of reflection, traced bending rays to explain refraction, and experimented with gaps to see diffraction in action. At each station they recorded evidence, compared results, and used patterns to build explanations.The final reflection challenged them to decide which behaviour most strongly shows light acts as a wave and how these behaviours connect to sound. These shared observations now set us up for next week, where we use the wave equation to mathematically explain the patterns they discovered experimentally.
