The word that should replace "say" in sentence 5 is A. describe. This is because the context involves the students articulating what they feel as they touch the models, which aligns more closely with the act of describing their sensations or observations.
Teacher Brings Vision to Science
adapted from The Christian Science Monitor
(1) During a visit to the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts, Carla Curran shares 3-D models of microscopic phytoplankton with a group of teenagers. (2) Phytoplankton are a kind of algae. (3) The models are 5,000 times their original size. (4) The students run their hands over the grooves and cracks of the models, learning the parts. (5) Curran asks the teens to say what they feel. (6) For more than 22 years Curran has taught hundreds of students most recently at Savannah State University in Georgia. (7) However, over the past six years, her role as a guest educator at Perkins has led to the work in which she has the most influence.
(8) In exercises designed to make scientific concepts more interactive and accessible. (9) She has engaged more than 100 Perkins students. (10) It’s an approach aimed at being inclusive and keeping students in STEM, or science, technology, engineering and math.
What word should replace say in sentence 5?
A.describe
B.talk
C.suggest
D.argue
1 answer