5E’s Learning Cycle

(Crash Course)

• Create interest• Generate curiosity• Discrepant events• Raise questions• Elicit responses that

uncover what the students know or think about the concept/topic

(Creating interest and disequilibrium)

• Multiple experience.• Encourage students to

work together.• Listen to the students as

they work• Ask probing questions to

help redirect students work

• Provide time for problem solving

• Consult…..don’t teach.

(Data collecting)

• Student defines concept• Ask for justification

(evidence) from students• Formally supplies

definitions, explanations, and new labels

• Use students previous experiences as a basis for explaining concepts

Elaborate (Accommodation)

• Extend new concepts into new situations (H.O.T.S.)

• Students begin to use formal labels

• Multiple experiences

• Ask open ended question. (“Why do you think….?”)

• Require students to use data to respond to questions.

• Allow students to assess their own learning.