Puerto, Daniel, García-Lechuga, Mario, Gallazzi, Francesca, Pérez-Merino, Pablo, Viñas-Peña, María Discovering light: an alternative approach to the teaching of optics and photonics in primary and secondary school Puerto, D.; García-Lechuga, M.; Gallazzi, F.; Pérez-Merino, P.; Viñas-Pena, M., "Discovering light: an alternative approach to the teaching of optics and photonics in primary and secondary school", Proc. SPIE 12297, Sixteenth Conference on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics: ETOP 2021, 122970K (30 June 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2635521 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/131270 DOI: 10.1117/12.2635521 ISSN: 0277-786X ISBN: 9781510656529 Abstract: We present a different approach to the teaching of optics in primary and secondary school which focuses on the development of hands-on experiments, enabling young students to have a closer look to optics and photonics. Keywords:Optics, Hand-on experiments, Teaching SPIE - The International Society for Optics and Photonics info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject