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Now that we’ve shared each phase of the 5Es with you, we wanted to do a final post that compiles all of our blogs for easy reference. In our series, we explored each of the phases of the 5Es and also shared some teaching strategies to help you implement them in your classroom. Overview …
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The Evaluate phase of the 5E instructional model involves student self-reflection and peer evaluation. It is very common for the Evaluate phase to overlap with Explain, especially if Evaluate is part of how students explain their work. Students may also engage in this phase throughout the learning process as they take time to think about …
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Although the i5E model is typically used to teach science, the “I notice, I wonder” exercise can be incorporated into any subject to start an activity or to weave throughout an activity as a way to engage students and scaffold their interactions between the text and with each other. This technique works very effectively with …
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The Explain phase of the i5E instructional model has students synthesize and share the information and findings that they gathered from Engage and Explore phases. What is the purpose of Explain? The purpose of the Explain phase is for students to communicate what they have learned in a clear and concise way. Deeper learning and …
Once you have engaged your students, there should be a natural transition into the Explore phase of the i5E Instructional model. At this point, introduce students to the driving question. The driving question, also called an overarching question, is a clear statement of the question or problem that students must either answer or find the …
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