Explain



**This phase of the 5 E's helps students explain the concepts they have been exploring. They have opportunities to verbalize their conceptual understanding or to demonstrate new skills or behaviors. This phase also provides opportunities for teachers to introduce formal terms, definitions, and explanations for concepts, processes, skills, or behaviors. **

Specific to Level 4, during this phase the teacher will:


 * assess the student's level of understanding, selecting and introducing content at individual point of need.
 * assist students to select strategies to demonstrate relationships between ideas and to connect new content with prior learning.
 * support students to identify and use strategies to meet the literacy demands of the task.

For more information relating to the 5 E's model see Enhancing Education and for a deeper understanding of the Explain phase see the DEECD website.

__**Learning Objective: **__
====Students will increasingly use information and communications technology tools and techniques to research, develop and communicate ideas. Students will be able to create presentations of work, showing understanding and meaning to the topic Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. ====

====This lesson incorporates Victorian Essential Learning Standards at Level 4 (Grade 5&6) as "Students use design tools, such as layout diagrams, annotated drawings and storyboards, to document solutions and the layout of information products." To view the link to VELS, Level 4 (grade 5 & 6) please click [|here].... ====

__**Lesson: **__


 * Toon Doo **

Students will create a comic strip using 'ToonDoo'. With this comic strip students can make people in their school or community be doing the wong thing (by not Reduce, Reuse or Recycling) or doing the right thing and Reduce, Reuse and Recycling. Students are to create a comic strip design of their own choice ensuring that it reflects on Reduce, Reuse and Recycling in a positive or negative way for students to reflect and discuss the comic strip and what is happening in it. The final conclusion of the Toon Doo design can be whole group reflection on what is right and wrong in Reduce, Reuse and Recycling.

The following comic strip can be used as a discussion point. Students can discuss feelings, causes and problems now faced by the character.


 * What changes could be made to this scenario to improve it?
 * What effects is this going to have on the environment? Positive or Negative?
 * How do you feel about what the person is doing? Why?



'ToonDoo' is an exciting way to create your own Comic Strips & the worlds fastest way to create Cartoons! Watch the children become instantly engaged and on task creating their own 'ToonDoo' experience! .... [|Click here to see Comic Strip]


 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Prezi Presentation **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Students will create a Prezi Presentation to explain the concepts that they have been exploring. The Prezi Presentation will allow them to reflect on what they have learnt and also extend their knowledge whilst creating the Prezi. This also gives teachers a chance to encourage the students to research the defintions of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle and how these terms are used within our environment and ways that we can help the environment by using them.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">In this task students will create slides zoning in on each of the 3 R's (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) explaining what they mean and what they involve.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I have created an example of a Prezi Presentation for students to view before beginning their own Prezi Presentation.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Click here to view my Prezi on Reduce, Reuse and Recycle .... [|Reduce, Reuse, Recycle]