A physics teacher asks her students to draw a picture to illustrate the forces at work when someone throws a ball into the air. This strategy should do two things to help students remember the forces involved. In particular, it should encourage students to engage in both:
A) implicit and explicit understanding
B) rote learning and automaticity
C) enactment and visual imagery
D) verbalization and facilitative expectations

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Drawing a picture requires enactment and visual imagery, two strategies that can help students remember the forces involved in throwing a ball into the air. It also encourages students to engage in both implicit and explicit understanding, as they are able to visualize the forces at work in a concrete way. Rote learning and automaticity may not be as effective in helping students truly understand the physics behind the motion of a ball in the air. Verbalization and facilitative expectations may be useful in other contexts, but are not as directly related to the task of drawing a picture to illustrate the forces at work in throwing a ball.

A Physics Teacher Asks Her Students to Draw a Picture