The Effect of 5E Teaching Model on Gifted Students’ Understanding of Evaporation and Condensation

The purpose of this study was to investigate effect of activities based on 5E teaching model on 6th grade gifted students’ understanding levels and alternative conceptions concerning evaporation and condensation. In this study, action research method was adopted. Two activities based on 5E model were developed. The activities were applied to 23 6th grade gifted-students enrolled at Ordu Science and Arts Center in the spring semester of 2013-2014 academic year. A test consisting of three different sections and semi-structured interviews were used to collect the data. The results showed that the activities based on 5E Model increased gifted students’ levels of understanding and corrected many of their misconceptions.