To Enhance Conceptual
Understanding
ENERGY
• Was energy used in this investigation?
• Where did the energy come from or go to?
• Did the energy change forms?
• How do you know what energy was
involved? What evidence so you have?
SYSTEMS & INTERACTIONS
• Can you identify a system and its parts?
• What is the function of the system?
• Is the system essential? Why or why not?
• Are all of the parts of the system essential?
• How do the parts of the system interact to allow
the system to accomplish its function?
• Can this system interact with other systems?
When, how and why?
CHANGE
• What change occurred in this
investigation?
• What caused the changes?
• What stayed the same in the
investigation?
• What was the rate of change? Did change
occur quickly or slowly?
• Could you do something to change the
rate of change?
PROPERTIES & PATTERNS
• What properties did you observe?
• What makes the object or event we
observed different from anything else?
• What patterns did you observe in this
investigation?
• Could you use patterns you observed to
make predictions?
MODELS
• How is this model similar to the real world?
• How is this model different from the real
world?
• What does this model show?
• What are the limitations of this model?
What does it not show?
• How could this model be improved?
• Who might use this model? What would
they do with it?