Lesson plan template
5E Lesson Plan Template and Example
Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate. The inquiry model most used for science, where students meet the phenomenon before the vocabulary.
When to use it. Best for science and any lesson where discovery should come before the definition. It is a poor fit for procedural fluency practice.
The template
Print this and write in the boxes, or copy the headings into your own planning document.
Engage
What question or phenomenon hooks them?
Explore
What do students investigate before you explain?
Explain
Now give the vocabulary and tie it to what they saw.
Elaborate
Where else does the idea apply?
Evaluate
How do you check understanding?
The same template, filled in
A real 2nd grade addition lesson, so you can see the level of detail each box actually needs.
- Engage
- Show two plants, one grown in a closet. Why the difference?
- Explore
- Groups sort plant photos by where they think each one grew.
- Explain
- Introduce photosynthesis, pointing back to the closet plant.
- Elaborate
- Predict what happens to a plant on a north-facing windowsill.
- Evaluate
- Students write one sentence explaining the closet plant.
