Blooms Taxonomy
As a year 6 teacher and after reading Andrew's last post, I thought I would share some of the activities which we use across the whole of upper key stage 2, not just at this time of year, but throughout the term.
They are based on Bloom's Taxonomy, but also integrate De Bono's Thinking Hats and Gardner's Multiple Intelligences. The children love using them and set themselves targets on how many points they can achieve. It works something like this...
The children are given the sheets on a Monday morning, with the activities printed on. We spend the first session of the day going through the activities and discuss some of the ideas that they may have. They are then given 2 - 4 days of the week to work through the activities at their own pace, in their co-operative learning teams. By the Friday, (and after using a huge amount of paper, glue and sellotape!) the children are ready to present their work to the rest of the class.
If you want to use the points system, we allocate 5 points to the Knowing/Understanding sections, 10 points to the Applying/Analysing sections and 20 points to the Creating/Evaluating sections. This is by no means set in stone and you could adjust these points to suit your needs.
You can download the Word files here.
Download investigate_a_book_the_bloomingsmart_way.doc
Download its_good_to_be_me_blooms.doc
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