ELABORATE

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The **//ELABORATE//** component of e5 provides an opportunity for students to apply their knowledge to other areas of the curriculum. The students expand on the concepts they have learned, make connections to other related concepts and apply their understandings to the world around them (real life). The **//ELABORATE//** component can be referred **//to ‘making connections’//** and/or**//‘going further’//** stages of the Inquiry Model to teaching and learning. These connections can raise new questions and lead to further inquiry and consequently new understandings. During the **//ELABORATE//** phase, students can demonstrate ‘transfer of learning’. The ‘transfer of learning’ can be used as an assessment tool or as part of the **//EVALUATE//** component of e5 Instructional Model. The teacher assists the students to demonstrate their new learning and to reflect on their learning (how and what they learnt) and students are encouraged to apply what they have learned to real life situations. The teacher may ask probing questions to challenge students’ thinking and to help students see the relationships between concepts/topic and other key learning areas. Questions the teacher may ask include: § ‘What do you now know …?’  § ‘Why do you think…?’    § ‘How is…an example of…?’     § ‘How is… related to …?  § ‘What evidence can you list for…?’