Blog Post #4

 1.This week I learned about the 5E Model of education. In this method there are 5 stages that each start with the letter E. The first one is engage where the goal is to gain the students attention. The second one is explore where students explore the concept through activities. The third one is explain where this is the direct instruction phase. The fourth one is elaborate where generalizations about the new learning is applied applied to previous investigations. The final one is evaluate where you test learners learning to see what knowledge they gained. We also looked at our fast plants growth this week. 

3. I was able to find most of the steps on the 5E system pretty clear. Especially the ones like evaluate and explore. I was a little confused on the elaborate section just because the explanation seemed pretty vague and did not provide clear examples of what it looked like. I would like to see in a classroom what that looks like. 

4. I could use the 5E system that we learned this week and apply that to my future classroom and use it to help better students learning and engagement with the content they have to learn. I think applying it would be extremely useful and prove only to have benefits overall.