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5 E's of Constructivism

The 5 E's is an instructional model based on constructivism, which says that learners build new ideas from existing ones. The 5 E's consist of 5 phases - Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate - that allow students to use prior knowledge, construct meaning, and continually assess understanding. Constructivism draws on students' existing knowledge and skills, and the constructivist teacher guides student inquiry and promotes new thinking as students synthesize information to build evolving understanding.

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5 E's of Constructivism

The 5 E's is an instructional model based on constructivism, which says that learners build new ideas from existing ones. The 5 E's consist of 5 phases - Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate - that allow students to use prior knowledge, construct meaning, and continually assess understanding. Constructivism draws on students' existing knowledge and skills, and the constructivist teacher guides student inquiry and promotes new thinking as students synthesize information to build evolving understanding.

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5 E's of Constructivism

The 5 E's is an instructional model based on the constructivist approach to learning, which says
that learners build or construct new ideas on top of their old ideas. The 5 E's can be used with
students of all ages, including adults.

Each of the 5 E's describes a phase of learning, and each phase begins with the letter "E":
Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate. The 5 E's allows students and teachers to
experience common activities, to use and build on prior knowledge and experience, to construct
meaning, and to continually assess their understanding of a concept.

Engage: This phase of the 5 E's starts the process. An "engage" activity should do the following:

1. Make connections between past and present learning experiences


2. Anticipate activities and focus students' thinking on the learning outcomes of current activities.
Students should become mentally engaged in the concept, process, or skill to be learned.

Explore: This phase of the 5 E's provides students with a common base of experiences. They
identify and develop concepts, processes, and skills. During this phase, students actively explore
their environment or manipulate materials.

Explain: This phase of the 5 E's helps students explain the concepts they have been exploring.
They have opportunities to verbalize their conceptual understanding or to demonstrate new skills
or behaviors. This phase also provides opportunities for teachers to introduce formal terms,
definitions, and explanations for concepts, processes, skills, or behaviors.

Elaborate: This phase of the 5 E's extends students' conceptual understanding and allows them
to practice skills and behaviors. Through new experiences, the learners develop deeper and
broader understanding of major concepts, obtain more information about areas of interest, and
refine their skills.

Evaluate: This phase of the 5 E's encourages learners to assess their understanding and abilities
and lets teachers evaluate students' understanding of key concepts and skill development.
Constructivism is a learning strategy that draws on students' existing knowledge, beliefs, and
skills. With a constructivist approach, students synthesize new understanding from prior
learning and new information.

The constructivist teacher sets up problems and monitors student exploration, guides student
inquiry, and promotes new patterns of thinking. Working mostly with raw data, primary
sources, and interactive material, constructivist teaching asks students to work with their own
data and learn to direct their own explorations. Ultimately, students begin to think of learning
as accumulated, evolving knowledge. Constructivist approaches work well with learners of
all ages, including adults.

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