What is the 5E Instructional Model?
The 5E teaching model is a constructivist approach that involves five phases: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate.
This model begins by activating students’ prior knowledge and then connects their ideas with new information acquired through investigation and discovery. It provides formal explanations for concepts that may be difficult to grasp intuitively and offers opportunities to demonstrate comprehensive learning through practical application.
Developed by the Biological Science Curriculum Study (BSCS) team, the 5E model has been used since the 1980s in various elementary and secondary schools across the United States. Studies have shown significant improvements in conceptual learning, skill development, and increased interest in science among students.
What is Constructivism?
Constructivism is a teaching and learning model that recognizes that every individual has prior knowledge, concepts, and ideas that serve as a foundation for understanding and integrating new learning. Thus, the constructivist model requires active learners who mobilize their prior knowledge and ideas, compare them with new information, and construct new models of understanding reality.
Constructivism emphasizes comprehensive learning through experience, allowing students to apply what they have learned in new contexts and situations, and it avoids rote memorization devoid of comprehension, which is characteristic of the «transmissive» model.»
