Engaging students in instructional conversations creates opportunities for discovering and internalizing the critical attributes of a concept. In this article, the authors will identify questioning practices for the Exploration Phase of the Learning Cycle that focuses students’ thinking and engages them in instructional conversations about the concept, Bernoulli’s Principle. Instructional conversations are academic interactions among learners. They focus learning on the process of thinking while attending to the content under study (Dantonio and Beisenherz, 2001).