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Understanding the 5E Teaching Model

The document describes the 5 phases of the Primary Connections 5E teaching and learning model: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate. The Engage phase elicits students' prior knowledge to stimulate interest. The Explore phase allows students to acquire shared experiences through hands-on learning. The Explain phase supports students to develop scientific explanations using representations. The Elaborate phase provides opportunities for students to apply their learning to new situations. The Evaluate phase allows students to review and reflect on their learning and understanding.

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Understanding the 5E Teaching Model

The document describes the 5 phases of the Primary Connections 5E teaching and learning model: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate. The Engage phase elicits students' prior knowledge to stimulate interest. The Explore phase allows students to acquire shared experiences through hands-on learning. The Explain phase supports students to develop scientific explanations using representations. The Elaborate phase provides opportunities for students to apply their learning to new situations. The Evaluate phase allows students to review and reflect on their learning and understanding.

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The phases of the Primary Connections 5E teaching and learning model

Teaching and learning progresses through five phases: Engage, Explore,


Explain, Elaborate and Evaluate. The phases of the Primary Connections 

Engage 5E teaching and learning model are based on the 5Es instructional model
(Bybee, 1997). EVALUATE

The 5Es
The purpose of the Engage phase is to elicit students' prior The final phase provides an opportunity for
knowledge, stimulate interest and gather diagnostic data to students to review and reflect on their own
inform teaching and learning. Each unit begins with a lesson learning, and on their new understanding
that mentally engages students with an activity or question. It and skills. Students represent changes to

captures student interest, provides an opportunity for them to their understanding, beliefs and skills.
express what they know about the concept or skill being
developed, and helps them to begin to make connections
between what they know and new ideas.

ELABORATE
EXPLORE This phase provides opportunities for students to apply

EXPLAIN
what they have learned to new situations and develop
Students carry out hands-on investigations in which they can a deeper understanding of the concept or greater use
explore the concept or skill. They grapple with the problem or of their science inquiry skills. It is important for
phenomenon and describe it in their own words. This phase allows students to discuss and compare their ideas with each
students to acquire a shared set of experiences that they can refer other during this phase. Investigations in the Elaborate
The purpose of the Explain phase is to support students to phase build student capability for science inquiry skills
to to help each other make sense of the new concept or skill. The
develop scientific explanations, drawing from experiences and in a meaningful context.
Explore phase is characterised by multiple opportunities for
observations, using representations. Students continue to
students to experience hands-on learning and represent their
develop knowledge of concepts and demonstrate their
thinking.
developing understanding.

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