Resumen de Seeing an old lab in a new light: transforming a traditional optics lab into full guided inquiry

Tim Maley, Will Stoll, Kadir Demir

• This paper describes the authors' experiences transforming a �cookbook� lab into an inquiry-based investigation and the powerful effect the inquiry-oriented lab had on our students' understanding of lenses. We found the inquiry-oriented approach led to richer interactions between students as well as a deeper conceptual understanding of how images are formed. We observed engaged students participating in scientific discourse full of hypothesizing, modeling, and argumentation based on evidence.