5E Lesson Plan in Mathematics

5E approach to Constructivist Learning
 The 5 E Approach This approach was introduced by Roger Bybee, of The Biological Science Curriculum Study (BSCS). The 5 Es are Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate and Evaluate. The final phase of the instructional model encourages students to assess their understanding and abilities and provides opportunity for the teacher to evaluate student progress toward achieving the learning objectives for the activity. The tasks may involve writing summaries, applying concepts and skills to novel situations, constructing a concept map, or taking a quiz.
 * 1) Engage: This stage assess the previous knowledge of the learner and helps them become engaged in a new concept through the use of short activities that promote curiosity and elicit prior knowledge. The aim is to organize students’ thinking toward the learning outcomes of the current activities.
 * 2) Explore: Expose the students to a variety of experiences at this stage. These experiences may involve observations of events or objects, manipulations of materials, work with simulations, examinations of representations, viewing a short video, or reading. These experiences provide a common basis for all students that the teacher can use to assist them in identifying and developing concepts and skills.
 * 3) Explain:Here students are provided with opportunity to explain their understanding of their experiences from the explore phase. The questions and discussion lead students to patterns, regularities, and/or similarities and prompt them to describe concepts or skills in their own words.
 * 4) Elaborate:The next phase challenges students to extend their understandings or skills and/or to practice them. Through new experiences at this time, students develop deeper understanding, an extended conceptual framework, and improved skills. Some of the tasks, such as reading an article, may be done as homework and discussed during the following class period.
 * 5) Evaluate:

Subject: Geometry         Class: IX Topic: Length of segment parallel to either X or Y axis. Technique: 5 E Model

The students devise the formula on their own. They get adequate practice through the game. The teacher only facilitates through use of appropriate questions.