Science use to be based on the appreciation and understanding of the natural world by memorizing facts, what catapulted major changes in science to create our current curriculum?

a. Demands of science community
b. Launch of Sputnik
c. Discovery of polio vaccine
d. Implementation of No Child Left Behind


ANS: B

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