The 5Es
What experiential learning activity did you participate in to practice the 5E model?
Designing a Water Filter
In Project-Based Learning, students typically work toward this tangible outcome, such as a documentary, a prototype, or a community presentation.
The final project or finished project.
Is Lecture-based instruction, with a focus on explanation, student or teacher-focused?
Teacher-focused.
True or False: Questions in STEM reveal student thinking and drive investigation and inquiry.
TRUE!
This engagement strategy involves linking lesson content to students' current lives, pop culture, or future career interests to answer the "Why do I need to learn this?" question.
What is Real-world application?
What is the first "E" in the 5E process?
Engage
While both are student-centered, this model emphasizes the acquisition of new knowledge to solve a specific riddle, whereas the other focuses on the application of knowledge to create something new.
What is problem-based learning?
This assessment tool provides clarity, transparency, consistency, and student ownership.
What is a rubric?
Analyze, Discuss, Explain and Explore are all examples of...
Command Words
Should high school prepare students for a career?
Why?
Which 5E phase involves investigating through hands-on experiences?
Explore
This is the open-ended, provocative question used at the start of a project to capture interest and give students a clear goal to work toward.
The driving question.
This instructional strategy involves students working together in small groups to solve a problem or complete a project, emphasizing social interaction and shared responsibility.
What is collaborative (or cooperative) learning?
Different types of references, a real world application, and a chart or graph represent...
Should high school prepare students for college?
Why?
In which 5E phase do you try ideas, make mistakes, talk with your group, and record your observations?
Explore
Because real-world problems are rarely solved alone, these learning models heavily emphasize this 21st-century skill of working effectively with others.
What is teamwork or collaboration?
Grades, Feedback, Accountability and Learning are all forms of...
Assessment
True or False: Think Time and Wait Time mean the same thing.
FALSE. Think time provides students with additional time to think before providing a response.
Wait time refers to providing time for a response after asking for a response.
This engagement strategy applies elements like points, leaderboards, and badges to non-game academic tasks to increase student motivation and persistence.
What is gamification?
In the 5E model, whose role is to be the designer of learning, observer and listener, questioner and philosopher and connector of ideas.
The teacher!
True or False: A project shouldn't have a simple "yes" or "no" answer. It needs a provocative, open-ended question that creates a "need to know."
TRUE!
Which term best describes the teacher's role in a student-centered classroom?
Facilitator
These are the words that refer to the conditions, parameters or constraints placed on you that will influence the way you respond to the question. These parameters must be followed.
What are Condition Words?
How can teachers provide options for students to show autonomy or strengths in completing assignments?
Choice assessments or Choice boards. Provide students with options to complete assignments that demonstrate their best abilities! Podcasts, groupwork, individual work, oral presentations, written papers.