The structure provided by the page types is designed to provide students with a framework for conducting open-ended inquiry that helps them to organize their activities and communications. The goal is to remove some of the burden of structuring their own activities from students, thereby freeing them up to focus more on the content of their investigations. The structure also plays a vital role in increasing the ease of navigation through the hypermedia database by providing community-wide conventions about the semantics of the links. A Conjecture page. Links to other pages are represented by the buttons on the left and right side of the text.
Darkened buttons indicate that other pages have been attached.
The task model of scientific inquiry is reinforced in the user interface in a way that suggests sensible next steps to students as they conduct their investigations. A Notebook page containing an image created by students.