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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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