The checklist below will help you ensure that your activity encourages the use of the 5E model.
Engagement
- Do you motivate and create curiosity and interest?
- Do you create a need for learning?
- Do you identify the pupils’ prior knowledge and attitudes?
- Do you link the learning material to what the target group already knows?
- Do you focus on the learning objective(s)?
Exploration
- Do you create a common learning platform?
- Will the pupils investigate, make decisions, gather information, interpret, and ask questions?
- Do you vary methods?
- Do you guide the pupils and support building a bridge between prior knowledge and new knowledge?
Explanation
- Can the pupils communicate their knowledge?
- Do you introduce new words, concepts, models, give examples and explain?
- Do you challenge existing understandings of concepts?
Elaborate
- Do you make demands on the pupils to proceed beyond their current level, and find better and more comprehensive explanations?
- Do you ask new questions to explore: What do we know? How can we find out more? How can this be explained?
- Do you apply knowledge in the field to new contexts?
Evaluation
- Do you have a plan for self-evaluation, ongoing evaluation and final evaluation?
- Do you reflect on how and why different activities engage and motivate?
- Do you evaluate prior knowledge and learning processes in relation to the learning objectives?
- Do you provide feedback on arguments, explanations and application?
- Do you evaluate learning outcomes?