The Engage phase is all about capturing the interest of students.

Engage also:

• Introduces aspects of the scientific concepts under consideration
• Seeks to explore what the students already know about these concepts
• Seeks to establish links between past learning experiences

Engagement activities can be open ended and challenge pre-exisiting conceptualisation for example:

Take one of the matches and place it across the back of your middle finger and under the 1st and 3rd fingers at the joints nearest the fingertips Try to break the match by pressing up with the middle finger and down with the other two Try pressing down with the middle finger and up with the other two Try moving the match to the other side of the middle joints		Get a glass or plastic cup and a ping pong ball Put the ping pong ball into the cup Put your lips against the edge of the cup With a firm breath blow across the top of the glass What did you notice happen? Why do you think this happened?

  They can also probe the student's understandings for example: