Moreover, students often develop an objectivist orientation towards science, view¬ing the process of science as seeking facts rather than as the construction of knowledge (Tobin et al., 1995) . Penner and Klahr (1996) found that students failed to perceive the essence of inquiry as a process that combines an experimental and an intellectual aspect, a process whose aim is to suggest and examine explanations for natural phenomena. Students often do not see science as scientists' efforts to construct