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~Objective~

 The student will be able to recite and describe the six levels of Bloom's Taxonomy by the end of this session.

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Understanding Objectives


Objective Example

~Lesson~

Have you ever wondered what Bloom's Taxonomy is...?

Yes?

Well... Read on to learn more!


When I say Bloom's Taxonomy, what is the first thing that comes to your mind?

A flower maybe? Such as this flower diagram?

Maybe you're the type of person who thinks pyramids...?

Such as this pyramid?



Intro Into Bloom's Taxonomy for English and Spanish Speakers

~The Break Down~

 Bloom: to be in or achieve a state of healthful beauty and vigor

Taxonomy: Division into ordered groups or categories

Bloom's Taxonomy: a classification of the different objectives that eductors set for students (learning objectives) Break Down


The Break Down

Bloom 1



Understanding that "taxonomy" and "classification" are synonymous helps dispel uneasiness with the term. Bloom's Taxonomy is a multi-tiered model of classifying thinking according to six cognitive levels of complexity. Throughout the years, the levels have often been depicted as a stairway, leading many teachers to encourage their students to "climb to a higher (level of) thought." The lowest three levels are: knowledge, comprehension, and application. The highest three levels are: analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. "The taxonomy is hierarchical; [in that] each level is subsumed by the higher levels. In other words, a student functioning at the 'application' level has also mastered the material at the 'knowledge' and 'comprehension' levels." One can easily see how this arrangement led to natural divisions of lower and higher level thinking.

Clearly, Bloom's Taxonomy has stood the test of time. Due to its long history and popularity, it has been condensed, expanded, and reinterpreted in a variety of ways. Research findings have led to the discovery of a veritable smorgasbord of interpretations and applications falling on a continuum ranging from tight overviews to expanded explanations. Nonetheless, one recent revision (designed by one of the co-editors of the original taxonomy along with a former Bloom student) merits particular attention. Changes in terminology between the two versions are perhaps the most obvious differences and can also cause the most confusion. Basically, Bloom's six major categories were changed from noun to verb forms. Additionally, the lowest level of the original, knowledge was renamed and became remembering. Finally, comprehension and synthesis were retitled to understanding and creating. In an effort to minimize the confusion, comparison images appear[on the side].

The new terms are defined as:

Remembering: Retrieving, recognizing, and recalling relevant knowledge from long-term memory.

Understanding: Constructing meaning from oral, written, and graphic messages through interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, and explaining.

Applying: Carrying out or using a procedure through executing, or implementing.

Analyzing: Breaking material into constituent parts, determining how the parts relate to one another and to an overallnstructure or purpose through differentiating, organizing, and attributing.

Evaluating: Making judgments based on criteria and standards through checking and critiquing.

Creating: Putting elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganizing elements into a new pattern or structure through generating, planning, or producing.


Using the Revised Taxonomy in an adaptation from the Omaha Public Schools Teacher's Corner, a lesson objective based upon the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears is presented for each of the six levels of the Cognitive Process as shown on the Revised Taxonomy Table.

Remember: Describe where Goldilocks lived.

Understand: Summarize what the Goldilocks story was about.

Apply: Construct a theory as to why Goldilocks went into the house.

Analyze: Differentiate between how Goldilocks reacted and how you would react in each story event.

Evaluate: Assess whether or not you think this really happened to Goldilocks.

Create: Compose a song, skit, poem, or rap to convey the Goldilocks story in a new form.

Although this is a very simple example of the application of Bloom's taxonomy the author is hopeful that it will demonstrate both the ease and the usefulness of the Revised Taxonomy Table.

  • APA Citation: Forehand, M. (2005). Bloom's taxonomy: Original and revised.. In M. Orey (Ed.), Emerging perspectives on learning, teaching, and technology. Retrieved <insert date>, from http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/ *

More Advanced Info

~The Levels~

The first level is Knowledge- Power Point

The second one is Comprehension- Power Point

Then Application- Power Point

After Application is Analysis- Power Point

Next is Synthesis-Power Point

The last level of Bloom's Taxonomy is Evaluation-PowerPoint

  

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~Activities~

Student activities

To help learn about somthing its easier to learn when you are actually using what you are learning...Quiz/Game



Activity 1

Activity 2


Taxonomy Verbs


Guide


Benjamin Bloom (1956) developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior in learning.

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