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1. Engage Phase

First, instructors open a lesson with an activity or question meant to students, snag their interest, and offer the opportunity for them to share what they already know on the subject.
Explore Phase

After engage comes explore, in which students carry out hands-on activities. Through their experiments or other interactions with the material, they deepen their understanding of the content.
Explain Phase

Once they’ve explored, students attempt to explain what they have learned and experienced with help from the teacher. Once the students have explained the concepts in their own words, the teacher may clarify or add detail to the explanation. 
Elaborate Phase

From there, students elaborate on their understanding, applying what they’ve learned to new situations to deepen their skills. In a traditional 5E model students are expected to develop a deeper understanding by entering a phase called elaborate. However, it’s hard to imagine a quality explanation that does not involve elaboration.
Evaluate Phase

In the final phase, students evaluate, reflecting on and providing evidence of their new understanding of the material. The evaluate phase should require students to reflect and incorporate their current understanding into a decision making process as part of developing and testing understanding.

​Engage

​Exploration

​Explanation

​Evaluation

​Elaborate