A computer support environment (SCI-WISE) for learning and doing science inquiry projects was designed. SCI-WISE incorporates software advisors that give general advice about a skill such as hypothesizing. By giving general advice (rather than step-by-step procedures) the system is intended to help students conduct experiments that are more epistemologically authentic. Also students using SCI-WISE can select the type of advice the advisors give and when they give advice as well as modify the advisors knowledge bases.