Which One of the Following Teachers Is Clearly Keeping the Notion

question 12

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following teachers is clearly keeping the notion of situated learning in mind as he or she helps students transfer what they are learning in school?

• A) Ms. Sporer asks her students to speculate about what might have happened if the Europeans had not "discovered" the New World until the 1800s.
• B) Mr. Mendoza makes sure that each one of the students in his instrumental music class knows the difference between the treble and bass clefs.
• C) Ms. Sabih gives each of her elementary art students a hunk of clay and then says, "I'd like you to mold your clay into a mythical creature of some kind-into an animal that no one has ever seen before."
• D) Mr. Gerberg takes his middle school math students to the grocery store so that they can use their math skills to do some comparison shopping.

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Definitions:

Histones

Small, positively charged (basic) proteins in the cell nucleus that bind to the negatively charged DNA. See nucleosomes.

Somatic Cell

In animals, a cell of the body not involved in formation of gametes. Compare with germ line cell.

Interphase

The stage of the cell cycle between successive mitotic divisions; its subdivisions are the G-22 / Glossary phases.

M Phases

The phase in the cell cycle where mitosis and cytokinesis occur, leading to cell division.