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The 5Es are Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate. I can use the first step of engaging but asking the students questions or defining problems. This is also one of the science and engineering practices and applying the cross cutting concepts as well will also fulfill the NGSS standard part of your lesson. In order to get the students to engage in the practice they have to see it as the problem being meaningful. To make it fun and meaningful, some ways to generate that is by doing something to make them curious about it, or focus their attention, or something to motivate them. The second step is explore, which can be used by planning and carrying out investigations. The students can make predictions and assumptions about the system that is being studied. You can do hands-on activities, and have the students record their observations and model things. The next step is to explain which can be done by analyzing and interpreting data that is obtained from the investigations. In this area the students discuss what they learned or saw happen in the experiment or investigation. The next step is elaborate which can be done by writing down everything you learned and understood from the experiment similarly to the explained step but including how the systems connect and the tools. Teachers can also add other activities to challenge the students to see if they can apply what they learned in the new activity as well. The last step is evaluate, which is like a final test in which they submit their results and everything to be judged or written In a journal. This can also be taken in the form of a paper test.
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