Breisha, a third-grade student in Mr. Collin's class, is participating in a group activity during science. Mr. Collin is teaching the students about electrical circuits. Breisha's group receives several diagrams of circuit arrangements as well as the materials for creating a basic, closed circuit that will ultimately turn a small fan if created correctly. Before working with the materials, the group writes a lab report wherein they make predictions about what will happen if they use the materials to create the circuit shown in each of the pictures. Which instructional strategy is Mr. Collin using to peak the students' interest and deepen their understanding of the concepts behind electrical circuits?
A)Advance organizers
B)Generating and testing hypotheses
C)Summarizing
D)Fostering non-linguistic representations

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Mr. Collin is guiding the students to generate and test hypotheses, which is an instructional strategy that will help to peak the students' interest and deepen their understanding of the concepts behind creating functional electrical circuits.

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