A teacher provides microscopic slides of different stages of mitosis and asks students to identify and arrange them in sequence. This activity primarily develops:

Read the following statements and choose the correct option: Assertion (A): Science textbooks should include biographies of scientists. Reasoning (R): Narrating biographies of great scientists inspires students to learn how scientists make discoveries by following a universal, rigid, and single scientific method.

Students hypothesizing about the potential effects of saltwater on terrestrial plants prior to conducting experiments demonstrate which higher-order thinking skill emphasized in experiential learning frameworks?