Elaborate
The elaborate phase of the learning cycle provides an opportunity for students to apply their knowledge to new domains, which may include raising new questions and hypotheses to explore. This phase may also include related numerical problems for students to solve. For example, when students explore the heating curve of water, a further elaboration may ask students to consider the specific heats of metals in comparison to water and to explain why pizza from the oven remains hot but aluminum foil beneath the pizza cools so rapidly. The elaboration phase ties directly to the psychological construct called transfer of learning.