During a school-wide unit on substance abuse, sixth-grade students are placed in the driver's seat of an electric golf cart within a highly controlled setting. They are directed to put on a pair of specialized glasses which distort their vision in order to allow the students to experience how difficult it is to drive while legally drunk. This is an example of partial immersion known as a:
A)Reflection
B)Representation
C)Model
D)Simulation

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During this school-wide unit on substance abuse, students participated in an activity know as a simulation, which is a type of partial immersion. Full immersion would have involved placing students in the actual scenario of driving while intoxicated, which is obviously highly dangerous and illegal. Simulations allow students to work with mock situations and problems in a controlled setting so that they can gain experiential knowledge when it is not possible or appropriate to expose them to the actual situations and problems.

During a School-Wide Unit on Substance Abuse, Sixth-Grade Students Are