A Science Teacher Has 15 Caucasian Students, 5 African American

Multiple Choice

A science teacher has 15 Caucasian students, 5 African American students, 3 Asian American students, one Hispanic student, and one Native American student in the class. The teacher is planning to engage the students in individual inquiries into the effects of throwing trash into a stream on the water quality of the stream by studying a stream behind the school. What cultural factors should the teacher consider?

A) Some of the students may not have an intuitive understanding of the inquiry process they are supposed to engage in.
B) Some of the students may ask questions of the teacher but be reluctant to question the teacher's responses.
C) Some of the students may prefer to do the inquiry activity in groups rather than individually.
D) Some of the students may construct their understandings differently from the way the teacher expected.
E) All of the above
F) None of the above ______________