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.
– Students apply concepts and skills to new situations.
Evaluate: 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.