• Connects students’ past and present experiences
• Creates interest and stimulates curiosity • Gets pupil’s attention to personally involved in the lesson • Let students encounter the Idea • To begin, teacher asks a question, shows a picture or something interesting, or poses a question. 3. EXPLORE • Gets pupils involve in the topic • Provides students with one or more experiences. • Offers opportunities for creative thinking and skills development. • Students make observations, record observations and ideas, make connections and ask questions. • Students usually work in groups. • Investigates and solves problems • Provides experience of the phenomenon or concept. • Here, teacher acts as a coach or facilitator. 4. EXPLAIN • STUDENTS: • Describe their observations and come up with explanations; • Listen critically to others’ explanations; • Develop vocabulary; • Learn to apply and interpret evidence • Introduce conceptual tools used to interpret the evidence • Construct explanations and justify claims in terms of evidence gathered • Consider scientific explanations • Organize the Idea • Here, the teacher guides students’ reasoning, asks appropriate questions and directs students to additional helpful resources. 5. ELABORATE • Use and apply concepts and explanations in new contexts to test general applicability. • Reconstruct and extend the explanations and make connections to other related concepts • Let students applying the idea • Further processing or deepening stage 6. EXTEND • not limited to simple elaboration • transfer of learning/concept • Enhancement/ enrichment stage • Agreement • Follow up 7. EVALUATE • Provide opportunity for pupils to review and reflect on their own learning and skill • Provide evidence for changes to pupil’s understanding, beliefs and skills • Demonstrate understanding of a concept or skills (what has been learned) • Assessment stage