5e Inquiry

5E Inquiry-Based Learning Model Engage:

Captures the student’s interest with informed questions. – Create interest, generate curiosity, raise questions, uncover prior knowledge

Explore:

Tests predictions and hypothesis. Provides the springboard

for further

investigations. – Students work together, make observations, perform investigations, and draw conclusions.

Explain:

Connects the student’s investigation to scientific explanations of the content. – Students describe, record and reflect about their observations.

Elaborate:

Provides further inquiry into the practice of a skill and

application of this new knowledge. –

Evaluate:

Students apply concepts and skills to new situations.

Reviews learning by beginning at knowledge level and

spirals into analysis, synthesis ,and evaluation. – Provides feedback to the students on their understanding of the concept.