Three of the Following Teaching Strategies Should Help Students Benefit

question 69

Multiple Choice

Three of the following teaching strategies should help students benefit from a discovery learning situation.Which strategy is least likely to be helpful?

• A)Mr.Sokol takes his students to the site of a battle and says, "Okay, look around and see what you can find."
• B)Ms.Elliot asks students to write down their discoveries about what happens to a chemical solution when they heat it.
• C)Ms.Talbot gives students several guidelines to follow as they conduct a physics experiment.
• D)Mr.DiCicco makes sure students have some knowledge about triangles, including the concepts of base and height, then provides an exercise through which they discover for themselves the formula for calculating the area of a triangle.

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