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Students hear a story as they "find" bones that you have put in an envelope for them. Their job is to begin assembling the bones as best they can. The students will invariably come up with different configurations--just like scientists do in real life. This is a good way to show that science is uncertain.
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- Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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