Week 4 Blog Post

 Olivia Langosch

This week I learned about the 5E Model. I learned that the 5 E's stand for engage, explore, explain, elaborate, and evaluate. The engage is about engaging your students to a new topic by having students connect their past knowledge to what this new topic is about. Exploring is about students asking questions and being curious, teachers can do this by setting up an experiment or an activity to get them more curious. Explain is when teachers directly introduce a concept or skill, while students develop deeper understanding for the topic, and can share findings from the activities or experiment. Elaborate is to challenge students' knowledge, so students can deepen their learning. Evaluate is to progress toward desired goals, and for students to self assess their learning. (The summary chart my group did is shown below). 

I also got to see the progression of my partner and I's plant from last week: 

From what I learned in class, I can apply this to my future teaching because by using this chart with the 5Es I can specifically write out lessons easier with seeing each E and what I need to do. Setting up lessons is important, and can be easier to see what to do, because with these 5Es I can see the progression with my students, communicate with others, and me to check for understanding, and to gather new information, or to see a different way that they were not thinking before. 

For the plant, I can relate this to what I already knew, because I knew that with soil, light, and water with the seeds, that it would grow. I honestly was not expecting it to grow this much, but it was really interesting to see each square was at a different stage of growth.