The 5E’s

1.Engage – The students are first introduced to a topic, where they must start making connections. You can engage them by asking a question, defining a problem, or talking about a specific event.

2.Explore – Students work directly with specific materials, sharing their ideas in groups or teams.

3.Explain – Here there will be communication between peers and the teacher. The students will explain to the teacher what they have learned so far, and the teacher will be able to see the student’s level of understanding.

4.Elaborate – Now the students must expand on their basic ideas that they have explained to the teacher. There must be lots of research and fact finding during this stage.

5.Evaluate - Evaluation in ongoing. The ongoing evaluation allows the teacher to see how much the students have understood or attained from their work individually and together.

The 5E’s Model is similar to Inquiry Based Learning. In Inquiry Based Learning, the lesson is driven by questions from the students, rather than a lesson delivered by the teacher. The students must be given a question, idea, or statement and then do research.