5E Model

Simulations are a great way to engage your students in science content that they cannot otherwise access — whether it’s on a scale too large or too long, or simply if safety is an .

5E Model, NGSS

Questioning To Support Discovery Through Exploration

August 28, 2019

How can you help students make meaning during exploration? Questioning! In an NGSS classroom, the goal is for students to discover the content though exploration. (If you’re not sure .

5E Model, Earth Science, NGSS

Teaching Climate Change With Web Resources

February 27, 2019

While it can be a touchy subject in some schools, I truly believe climate change is an important issue we should be teaching our students. It’s pretty much the biggest environmental .

5E Model, NGSS

Formative Assessments For NGSS Science Classrooms

January 23, 2019

Formative assessments are a vital part of any instructional model, and the 5E Model is no different. Formative Assessment is… … any sort of activity in which the intent is .

5E Model, NGSS

Providing Opportunities For Practice: Elaborating On Student Learning

January 16, 2019

If you’ve been following along, we are diving into designing instructional sequences (aka lesson plans) using the 5E Model. Engage, Explore, Explain, and now ELABORATE! Another .

5E Model, NGSS

What Does Direct Instruction Look Like With The NGSS?

January 9, 2019

If you’ve been following along, we are diving into designing instructional sequences (aka lesson plans) using the 5E Model. Engage, Explore, and now EXPLAIN. And let me say, if you are .

5E Model, NGSS

Tangible Explore Experiences for the NGSS Classroom

September 24, 2018

Over the last few weeks, we have looked at the 5E Model and how to use it to design your NGSS-aligned instructional sequences. We first took a bird’s view of the model and how to use .

Simulations To Engage: Infectious Disease and Body Systems (MS-LS1-3)

Questioning To Support Discovery Through Exploration

Teaching Climate Change With Web Resources

Formative Assessments For NGSS Science Classrooms

Providing Opportunities For Practice: Elaborating On Student Learning

What Does Direct Instruction Look Like With The NGSS?

Tangible Explore Experiences for the NGSS Classroom