CHAPTER 4: TEACHING SCIENCE FOR UNDERSTANDING: THE 5-E MODEL OF INSTRUCTIONS
Chapter 4 has some very interesting points. It’s main topic and theme is guiding the inquiry process through the investigations of the natural world. With that, the theory of this chapter introduces the 5-E model. Which is: engage, explore, explain, elaborate and evaluate. This enhances many different aspects, it helps encourage the retrieval of prior knowledge and helps scaffold from that previous knowledge. A practical approach to teaching natural science is by presenting an interesting inquiry and factual materials. Here students can explore by observing, and finding the answers to their questions. Teachers will be the leading way for the students to discover fact-based concepts.
This chapter has not only introduced me to the 5-E Model but it has also provided me with a way to teach my future students in the science curriculum. Giving factual evidence for my students will further help them with their questions and guide them through their previous knowledge and new observations and explanations. What surprised me about this chapter is that you learn as a teacher to give some information and let your student’s run with it; of course guiding them along the way. This section is pretty straight forward and actually has helped me understand how to present information to my students by using the 5-E Model. This chapter further helps the scaffolding of science for my future students.
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What's great about the 5-E model is that it invites children to think for themselves while providing for direct instruction. Your focus on scaffolding is important as well, because we always want to challenge students while giving them support.
ReplyDeleteThis is an interesting chapter. The authors, clearly, do not rule out the use of other, more traditional, teaching methods. However, the authors are just as insistent about their preferred approach to teaching science. When it comes to teaching scientific THINKING, inquiry methods rise to the level of best practice. For many in the profession, the 5-E model is, arguably, the best articulated approach to teaching scientific inquiry.