This subunit is meant for higher levels of secondary education. The main IBSE approaches employed in this subunit are interactive demonstration, guided discovery and guided inquiry. Inquiry based skills developed in these subunits are amongst others:

  • Designing experiment
  • Planning scientific investigations
  • Using tools and techniques to gather data
  • Analysing and describing data
  • Explaining results and drawing conclusions.
  • Constructing models
  • Comparing models with experimental results
  • Debating with peers
  • Forming coherent arguments
  • Communication scientific procedure and explanations.

The activity 3 in the subunit Nuclear imaging can be enriched with an open type of inquiry – an excursion to a hospital, which has a nuclear imaging department or inviting to school a person working at such department. Students should prepare their interview questions and after the excursion reports their findings.