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5-E Model for Teaching Inquiry Science

Author(s): Nancy Moreno, PhD
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5-E Model: Explore

The next step, Exploration, involves students in actual experiences with physical materials. Students may do experiments, collect data, make observations, make connections, and ask questions. 

Students usually work in groups, and the teacher acts as a coach or facilitator, simply guiding the students who themselves conduct the investigations. 

Keywords:  | 5-e model | creative thinking | experience | explore | skills development
Reference:
  1. Adapted from Bybee, R. 2002. In Learning Science and the Science of Learning.