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What is a 5E Lesson Plan?

The 5 E lesson supports inquire-based instruction. It allows children to make discoveries and to
process new skills in an engaging way. Teachers can also adequately plan power objectives more
effectively by using the 5E process. Children are not just learning with this method, they are
more knowledgeable about their own metacognition because they are coached along and not
dictated by teachers merely lecturing. The role of the teacher is to facilitate and support students
as they use prior knowledge to build new knowledge.

The 5 Es are:

Engage
Explore
Explain
Elaborate
Evaluate

When planning a lesson each of these areas should be completed. Often times these lessons may
take a few days to complete.

1. Engage
To engage means to excite and to draw your child or student's curiosity. It means to wow them in
a way that catches their attention. It is not forcing children to learn but inviting them to do so.
This is how lessons are introduce. It does not have to be difficult or overly detailed just
interesting enough to open students minds for the learning process to begin. Using technology to
engage student learning makes planning very easy for teachers in today's classrooms. Using
Smartboard technology, videos, illustrations, asking questions, KWL charts, reading a great
book, acting out a character or even introducing a game are ways to engage students at the
beginning of a lesson.

2. Explore
Once students are fully in grossed in the lesson, intrigued by a video or maybe a book, now it is
time to allow them to explore the concept. Lets say I do a lesson on Camouflage, first I would
engage them with an informative video, explaining camouflage with animation. Now in the
explore they will play lets say a game where they will go out side and break up into teams. Each
team will be given a minute to find as many various colored strings scattered in the grass. The
idea with exploring is to give the learner the opportunity to practice or work with their new
knowledge in some way. The most effective explorations allow for mistakes or trial and error. Its
is looking at a concept before discussing all the details, with hopes that students will discover
answers to possible questions through exploration.

3. Explain
Students now have an opportunity to hear from their educator. The teacher's role so far has been
to mainly facilitate learning, now they can use their expertise to answer questions students may
have about what they are learning. They also may pose questions to the student to see what they
are able to explain what they have learned. Checking for misunderstandings helps the teacher to
observe what objectives need to be clarified or taught. So for example, with the Camouflage
Lesson, once the students have picked as many strings as possible, they should count each color
that they picked. Which color did they pick up the most, which color did they pick the least
amount of? Have them make a chart, so they can look at their findings and compare as a group.
Students should notice that they picked less green strings because the green was blending in with
the grass. They have more of a different color like purple because of its contrast in color. This
explaining is done without the teacher having to do much lecturing. The lesson is reinforced by
what the students have seen from their exploring.

4. Elaborate
Here the students can participate in an extension or a different activity that either re-teaches an
objective or teaches more details about the concept being taught. Here differentiation can be
used. A student above level will need an elaboration that extends or enriches the lesson. A
student below level will need perhaps a repeat of the same explore activity with more teacher
input to guide students through again to correct misunderstandings. Again with the camouflage,
elaboration may be discussing what other animals besides say frogs use camouflage? What
elements in their habitat allow them to do so? Or the teacher might say let's look at our charts
again from the results of our game. Doing so will allow him or her to re-teach or elaborate on
what was misunderstood.

5. Evaluate
Finally, after the objectives are taught, it is time to assess. What have students effectively
learned? What do they not understand? What should be done to help them? Assessments do not
have to be the traditional quiz or essay. It can be a reflection, a project, book report, or a model.
Like with the camouflage lesson, the evaluation could an assignment where students come up
with 5 facts about camouflage and illustrate each in their own unique way. They might make a
model, paint a picture, or make a mini book with drawings and facts to illustrate what they
learned. Using a rubric the teacher or parent can now easily grade or make note of what is
learned and of what needs to be retaught.

Make it Easy on Yourself When Planning


Many veteran teachers find the 5E lesson plan just more to do. I think that it makes teaching the
lesson easier in that the students are more willing to learn, the activities are set up, the lesson
sequence is well thought out and the objective is thoroughly covered.

Use the following words when questioning and make sure to keep the Scientific Method in mind:

What do you observe?


Make a hypothesis.
Analyze the data, what can you conclude?
What connections can you make?

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