This activity guides students through the process of building a model to demonstrate energy movement through liquids. For this activity, you will need a plastic bin to hold water, an object that floats in water, and a cup to produce ripples.

This grade-four resource aligns with:

PS4-1 Waves and their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

4-PS4-1 Develop a model of waves to describe patterns in terms of amplitude and wavelength and that waves can cause objects to move.