Connie, a Grade 2 teacher, notices her students behaving differently from the Grade 4 students during recess, and she comes up with several connected ideas to explain why the two groups behave differently. What do Connie's ideas exemplify?

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Connie's ideas form a theory, which is a set of interconnected concepts or explanations that can be used to understand and predict a phenomenon. She has observed a pattern of behavior in her students and has developed a set of ideas to explain why this pattern exists.

Connie, a Grade 2 Teacher, Notices Her Students Behaving Differently