Graduate Education Assistance

Secondary Science Framework Using K12

5E Model

Description

Timeframe

Questions to Consider

Engage Teacher-Led 10-15 Minutes

What will you have students do so they become interested in the lesson? AND What wonderings and questions do students have about the essential question?

Engage students with an event or question. Assess: How will you check students’ background knowledge and misconceptions for the unit of study?

Explore Teacher Guided

20 – 25 Minutes

What will they record in their science notebooks? What data will they collect? AND How will you monitor their work during the investigation?

Explore the concept further. Assess: How will you determine who demonstrates the skills needed during the investigation? How will you know who is beginning to understand the concept(s)?

Explain

Student-Led

30 – 40 Minutes

How will you help students:

• infer based on their observations?

• develop conclusions to answer the testable question?

• connect the data to the concept(s) they are learning? How will you introduce and use vocabulary in the context of the benchmarks? AND How will you address students’ misconceptions identified in Engage and Explore? AND What will students be reading and writing to deepen their understanding? What reading strategy will they use? What else will students do to master the benchmark(s)?

Explain: Provide the scientific explanation and terms for what they are studying.

Assess: How will you determine who understood the concept(s) and who did not? This is necessary to determine who receives enrichment or remediation during the Extend.

Extend/Elaborate Independent

20 – 25 Minutes

How will you differentiate instruction based on previous informal assessments of the Explore and Explain: For enrichment allow students to work on Performance Task or activities that extend the concepts. For remediation design a new way to teach the benchmark that addresses student misunderstandings and misconceptions identified through the informal assessment in the Explain

Extend/Elaborate: Opportunity to apply the concept in unique situations, or they are

given related ideas to explore and explain using the information and experiences they

have accumulated so far.

Assess: How will students demonstrate that they have now met the benchmark? How will students demonstrate that they have a deeper understanding of the concepts and skills?

Evaluate

Independent

10 – 15 Minutes

The summative evaluation determines how well each student has understood the concepts taught in the lesson. It might be a short quiz based on the lesson or a writing response to the essential question or another appropriate prompt. This is where a performance task may be used.

Evaluate: Student outcomes to “Look For”, products, or assessment.