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ERIC Number: EJ425100
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1991
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ISSN: ISSN-0090-3167
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Thinking-Skills Strategy.
Cummings, Alysa
Learning, v19 n6 p66-67 Feb 1991
Describes discovery learning, a teaching method that encourages students to use inductive reasoning. Students explore and experiment using the skill or idea being taught; they determine rules, make generalizations, and discover concepts. The teacher acts as coach, advisor, and reinforcer. A student page offers a discovery learning game on capital letters. (SM)
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Discovery Learning, Educational Games, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Experiential Learning, Learning Activities, Learning Strategies, Student Development, Teacher Role, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Guides - Classroom - Learner
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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