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Implications for Education

Discovery learning is an approach to instruction

through which students interact with their

environment by exploring and manipulating

objects, wrestling with questions and controversies

or performing experiments.

Students were more likely to understand and

remember concepts they had discovered in the

course of their own exploration.

Teachers have found that discovery learning is

most successful when students have pre-

requisite knowledge and undergo some structured

experiences.