Explain Teachers facilitate student construction of formal labels, definitions, and explanations. Students are encouraged to listen to and evaluate the ideas of other students. Teachers then formally provide definitions, explanations and new labels. Students use the information gathered during exploration and use the terms they have defined to explain and describe the activity. Elaborate Students apply what they have learned to similar activities or situations.
Students verbalize definitions, explain their understandings to others and compare their ideas.
As students interact, they question, hypothesize, propose experiments and solutions, record observations, draw conclusions and check their peers for understanding. Evaluate The teacher assesses the learner's understandings of the concept by observing and asking open ended questions. The student shows understanding by answering questions verbalizing evidence, observations, and using demonstrations to support answers.