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ERIC Number: EJ275129
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1983-Feb
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What's Your Theory? Working on Problems with Unknown Solutions.
Bellamy, Mary Louise
Science Teacher, v50 n2 p34-36 Feb 1983
Describes an instructional strategy to develop creative thinking. Students learn what information scientists had prior to formulation of an idea and attempt to devise their own solutions to the problem. However, no experimentally verified solution to the problem is known. Advantages to this approach are discussed. (Author/JN)
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Science Education, Science Instruction, Secondary Education, Secondary School Science, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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