Nathan Edwards assigns his students the task of answering the question: "What is the optimal amount of water needed to make beans grow the most quickly?" He has his students design activities that will allow them to investigate the question, they conduct their investigations for three weeks, and they then report and discuss their results. Of the following, the Nathan's approach could best be described as:
a. direct instruction.
b. cooperative learning.
c. guided discovery.
d. problem-based instruction.
d
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What will be an ideal response?