A teacher turns a glass tumbler containing a wad of paper inside it upside down and pushes the rim straight down into a clear container filled with water. Which of the following teaching techniques would indicate that the teacher believes it is important to build upon children's prior knowledge and experiences?
A) The teacher explains that air occupies space and gives examples such as blowing up a balloon or asking children to demonstrate the difficulty in trying to compress the extended plunger of a sealed plastic syringe. The teacher then asks the children to predict what they think will happen to the paper when the inverted glass is immersed in water.
B) The teacher does the experiment again and asks the children to take notes on what happens.
C) The teacher repeats the experiment, allows the children to comment on their observations, and then gives them her own explanation.
D) Before the teacher does the experiment, she asks the children what they think will happen. She does the experiment and then asks children to check their guess with what they observed. She then asks for comments on the reasons for the phenomena.
A
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