Performance Objectives:
Goals of the Introductory Physics Laboratory (1998 AAPT Statement)
Inquiry Labs: What Science Lab Activities Should Look Like (116 kB PDF draft document added 9/22/03)
Levels of inquiry: Hierarchies of pedagogical practices and inquiry processes (see definitions of various types of inquiry-oriented labs)
Cookbook versus Inquiry Labs (last updated 10/04/04)
Problem-Solving Labs (PowerPoint Presentation)
Text version of above PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Problem Solving Labs a la University of Minnesota PER Group
Sample Guidelines for Lab Reports
Sample Inquiry-based Labs (new link to PHY 302)