An Opportunity to Study Mechanical Waves by the Use of Inquiry Methods

Nowadays learning conditions, in which ICT plays a very important role, offer the opportunity to use inquiry methods in the study of a number of phenomena in the secondary school. One of the topics in physics for 16-year-old students in the Bulgarian school is related to mechanical waves. A training with active implementation of inquiry methods on this subject has been conducted in two school years. A pedagogical experiment was conducted to determine the results of this type of training. This article describes the research methods and the results of the pedagogical experiment. This one may be of interest to researchers in science education and physics teachers.