5e Model
5e Model
5E
Definition
Engage
Generate interest
Access prior knowledge
Connect to past knowledge
Set parameters of the focus
Frame the idea
Teacher
Behavior
Student
Behavior
Motivates
Creates interest
Taps into what students know or
think about the topic
Raises questions and encourages
responses
Acts as a facilitator
Observes and listens to students as
they interact
Asks good inquiry-oriented
questions
Provides time for students to think
and to reflect
Encourages cooperative learning
Demonstrates an understanding or
knowledge of concepts and skills
Evaluates his/her own progress
Answers open-ended questions
Provides reasonable responses and
explanations to events or
phenomena
Attentive in listening
Ask questions
Demonstrates interest in the lesson
Responds to questions
demonstrating their own entry point
of understanding
Explore
Explain
Extend/Elaborate
Apply new learning to a new or
similar situation
Extend and explain concept being
explored
Communicate new understanding
with formal language
Evaluate
Assess understanding (Self, peer
and teacher evaluation)
Demonstrate understanding of new
concept by observation or openended response
Apply within problem situation
Show evidence of accomplishment
Based on the 5E Instructional Model presented by Dr. Jim Barufaldi at the Eisenhower Science Collaborative Conference in Austin, Texas, July 2002.