making the unfamiliar familiar

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Teaching can be considered 'making the unfamiliar familiar'. Teachers have a range of techniques to help make the unfamiliar familiar when that which is to be taught about (the unfamiliar) cannot simple be directly demonstrated and passed around in the classroom (consider the big bang, a black hole, a mitochondria, plate tectonics, d-level splitting, …)

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.