Ms. Cohen asks her high-school students to imagine they are the parents of a respected figure from history, such as Franklin Roosevelt or Rosa Parks, and write a letter to that person when they were a 15-year-old, taking into account the events and beliefs in society at around that time. Ms. Cohen's history lesson most effectively fosters development of:
a. perspective taking skills.
b. the ability to draw inferences from historical documents.
c. an understanding of historical time.
d. creative writing about past events.
Question 2
To encourage conceptual change in a 5th-grade science class, the most effective of the following teaching strategies is to:
a. Have students perform simple experiments in which the results contradict their predictions and expectations.
b. Invite students to propose their own hypotheses and develop their own methods to test them.
c. Use computer simulations to capture student attention and illustrate abstract ideas.
d. Capture students' attention by demonstrating phenomena that are unusual, unexpected, and abstract.
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