After the BP Oil Spill, Ms. Culligan engages her students in a discussion about short-term and long-term environmental effects of the disaster. The class brainstorms and researches ideas for cleaning the oil, stopping the leak, and protecting wildlife. A real-world situation has provided the starting point for learning. The students are also engaged in finding answers to a real-world environmental issue. What learning strategy is Ms. Culligan using?

This question lacks options, options are:  

A) Problem-Based Learning  

B) Games  

C) Simulation  

D) Discovery

The correct answer is A.

Explanation:

Problem-Based Learning is a teaching methodology that aims to activate learning by investigating and discussing a real problem. This methodology uses a problem as a starting point for the acquisition of new knowledge and the conception of the students as the protagonist of the management of their learning. The objective of problem-based learning is to bring students closer to certain key ideas and present problem situations. Students learn to understand the world from complexity, it teaches them to be autonomous, independent and to have critical thinking.

the historians cited in the article all agree with one another about the cause of the civil war. despite coming from different backgrounds and cultures, the historians agree that slavery was the root cause of the civil war. the fact that all these historiansgenerally agree with one another makes their shared viewpoints more reliable and valid, especially because the historians have different backgrounds and all work for the well-respected institutions of howard university, clemson university, and the university of colorado.

an informal structure in a bureaucracy would be something like so-called "office politics". where there's a formal structure set up for the organization, but then an informal subculture as well that has a way of organizing the bureaucracy further. this can be positive because it sets up an added degree of organization, albeit informal, within the bureaucracy.