Which one of the following teachers is obviously keeping the notion of situated cognition 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. Gerberg takes his middle school math students to the grocery store so that they can use their math skills to do some comparison shopping.
c. Mr. Mendoza makes sure that each one of the students in his instrumental music class knows the difference between the treble and bass clefs.
d. 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 doesn't actually exist."
B
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