86. Rakesh is a teacher of Environmental Studies of class V.
He asks the children in his class to do an activity.
In which, all children observe which object floats in water and which sinks in water?
After the activity some children ask the teacher why some objects sink in water and some objects float in water.
What is the most appropriate thing a teacher should do in the following situation?
(A) The teacher should tell the children that this is happening because of the density.
(B) Give each child the freedom to observe, record their observations, and interpret those observations.
(C) Provide opportunity to each child to hypothesize, test and make activity based generalizations.
(D) Teacher should say that the main reason for this you will understand in your higher classes.
(1) (C) and (D)
(2) (A) only
(3) (A), (B) and (C)
(4) (B) and (C)
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कारण: A constructivist approach emphasizes allowing children to discover knowledge themselves. Providing opportunities for observation, recording, interpretation (B), hypothesizing, testing, and generalizing (C) encourages scientific inquiry and deeper understanding. Simply stating the reason (A) or deferring it to later classes (D) limits their active learning.