Engage

The Engage phase begins the 5E's process. During this phase the students will make connections between past and present learning experiences. Students should become mentally engaged in the concept, process, or skill to be learned.

Specific to Level 4, during this phase the teacher will:
 * refer to shared norms in their interactions with students and share the responsibilty
 * use all available evidence to determine each individual students's current level of understanding
 * use questions generated by students to extend the focus of learning and to connect with students
 * support students to evaluate their own and others thinking

For more information relating to the 5E's model see Enhancing Education and for a deeper understanding of the Engage phase see the [|DEECD] website

**__Learning Objective: __**
Students will be introduced to the 3 R's (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) by watching a YouTube Video and then reflecting on their prior knowledge and what they would like to know about Reduce, Reuse and Recycle by creating a KWL Chart as a class and each individual student adding to this KWL Chart.

This lesson is based on Victorian Essential Learning Standards as, "Students will work towards the achievement of Level 4 standards in Information and Communications Technology (ICT), "they apply known ICT tools for visualising thinking in new ways to make links between existing and new knowledge." To view the link to VELS Level 4 (Grade 5 & 6) please [|click here].....

Students interests are captured in this learning phase, this is done below by introducing a YouTube clip which shows a song and clip reflecting on Reduce, Reuse and Recycling.
 * __Lesson: __**

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Students are then asked to contribute after watching the Clip: * What they know about Reduce, Reuse and Recycling? * What they would like to learn about Reduce, Reuse and Recycling?

This is used to reflect on students prior knowledge about Reduce, Reuse and Recycle and promote questions for future learning. <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; text-align: left;">

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">As a class we will create a **KWL** Chart (What we KNOW, What we WANT to know & What we LEARNT). //<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This activity creates the link between past, present and future learning where students can elaborate on all aspects to give direction to the unit, specifically tailoring it to students needs. // <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">To do this we will 'build a wall' on Wallwisher, which is an interactive page where students click on 'Post a Sticky' to add what they KNOW about the 3R's or what they WANT to know about the 3R's and once completed the topic, what they have LEARNT:

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Please click here to view Wallwisher and produce your own! ... [|Wall Wisher]

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