THE 5ES OF INQUIRY-BASED SCIEN (Professional Resources) Paperback – 16 January 2013

Worked out great for my class.

This book has made a huge difference in how I structure my science lessons. My students are far more engaged and enthusiastic about learning science!

This was a great purchase! The book was short and sweet but had a lot of good value. I have taught before, but this is my first year in science and this was a great introduction to the 5Es. The writing is very good and there are plenty of examples to get me started. I would definitely recommend for anyone who has little to no exposure to the 5Es or anyone who would like simplified clarification. Small enough to finish in one to two sittings which I liked.

Ordered for a college class and came in perfect time. Easy to read and very informative.

This is an excellent book if you are not familiar with the 5E or Learning Cycle approach to teaching science. It is extremely short, but there is enough information on each topic to get you started using the model in your classroom. If you're using the 5E approach, you'll want to keep this one handy to refer to as you are getting started lesson planning.I highly recommend the 5E approach. Basically, you start by Engaging student's interest (this is the anticipatory set, nothing new there), then having them Explore before Explaining what's going on. That's the big difference with this model. The kids do a lab or activity to gain some knowledge about a concept before you teach it, instead of learning about it and then doing a lab to confirm that what you told them was true. 5E is a much better way to teach science!Now here's why I only gave it four stars. 1) A lot of their examples are aimed at the lower grades. They usually give three examples per topic. Often, one will be for K-2, one for 3-5, and one for 6-12. Ok, so their audience may be more elementary school teachers, but it's not helpful to lump together seven grade levels any way you slice it. Just give four examples. 2) In some sections it feels like an entire book could be written about something they describe in two paragraphs. I'm not faulting them for that; this is a brief overview. My quibble is that they could have included a lot more citations so that you could follow up with topics you want to explore in more depth. I guess I'd have liked an annotated bibliography.