Students will launch the project by exploring how emotion waves grow, crash, and calm through literature, movement, sound, art, and safe sensory materials. They will begin collecting observations and create an illustrated emotion-wave card that can inform later user research and sensory-wall designs. The linked project handout did not return readable content, so no source activity was reused in this phase.

Students will investigate how emotion waves appear in words, faces, bodies, sounds, and sensory experiences, then gather firsthand evidence from consenting peers and school helpers. They will organize evidence on individual visual empathy maps showing what a sensory-wall user may feel, notice, need, and find calming. The linked Google Drive handout returned no readable content, so these activities use only the project details provided.

Students will compare firsthand evidence, identify shared and differing sensory needs, establish safety and accessibility priorities, and create a team design brief that defines how an ocean-themed sensory wall could help users safely ride an emotion wave.

Students will use emotion-wave knowledge and firsthand user evidence to imagine several different ocean-themed sensory-wall concepts. They will investigate how artistic choices affect users, sketch and compare ideas, gather feedback from two peers and school partners, revise their concepts, and select an evidence-based direction for prototyping. The Google Drive handout did not return readable content, so these activities use the supplied project details without claiming to adapt activities from the handout.

Students will safely build low-fidelity sensory features, gather feedback from classmates and school partners, and complete two evidence-based revisions before advancing to final construction. The linked Google Drive handout returned no readable content, so no source activity was reused in this phase.

Students will validate their ocean-themed sensory features with a representative user, use evidence to make final improvements, assemble a safe sensory-wall section, and explain their design journey during the Wave Walk Gallery and Ripple Reveal. The linked Google Drive handout returned no readable text in this session, so these activities use the supplied project details rather than unverified source tasks. ([drive.google.com](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PlN2BNKJ1cMEpMUrFJegYWRGzsvCO8P0/view?usp=sharing))

Students will prepare for, lead, and reflect on two authentic showcases of their ocean-themed sensory wall. They will use peer and community feedback, demonstrate safe self-regulation features, and explain how design choices respond to users’ needs. The linked Google Drive handout did not return readable content, so these activities use the project requirements provided in the prompt. ([drive.google.com](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PlN2BNKJ1cMEpMUrFJegYWRGzsvCO8P0/view?usp=sharing))