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BLOOMS REVISED TAXONOMY

(http://www.coe.uga.edu/epltt/bloom.htm)

Creating
Generating new ideas, products, or ways
of viewing things
Designing, constructing, planning,
producing, inventing.

Evaluating
Justifying a decision or course of action
Checking, hypothesising, critiquing,
experimenting, judging

Analysing
Breaking information into parts to explore
understandings and relationships
Comparing, organising, deconstructing,
interrogating, finding

Applying
Using information in another familiar
situation
Implementing, carrying out, using,
executing

Understanding
Explaining ideas or concepts
Interpreting, summarising,
paraphrasing, classifying, explaining

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Remembering
Recalling information
Recognising, listing, describing,
retrieving, naming, finding
(http://web.odu.edu/educ/llschult/blooms_taxonomy.htm)

Critical
Thinking
Activity

Relevant Sample Verbs

Sample Assignments

Acquire, Define, Distinguish,

1.
Draw, Find, Label, List, Match,
REMEMBERING
Read, Record

1. Define each of these

terms: encomienda,
conquistador, gaucho
2. What was the Amistad?

Compare, Demonstrate,
2.
Differentiate, Fill in, Find,
UNDERSTANDI
Group, Outline, Predict,
NG
Represent, Trace

1. Compare an invertebrate
with a vertebrate. 2. Use a
set of symbols and graphics
to draw the water cycle.

3. APPLYING

Convert, Demonstrate,
Differentiate between,
Discover, Discuss, Examine,
Experiment, Prepare, Produce,
Record

1. Convert the following

into a real-world problem:
velocity = dist./time. 2.
Experiment with batteries
and bulbs to create circuits.

4. ANALYZING

Classify, Determine,
Discriminate, Form
generalizations, Put into
categories, Illustrate, Select,
Survey, Take apart, Transform

1. Illustrate examples of
two earthquake types. 2.
Dissect a crayfish and
examine the body parts.

1. Defend or negate the

statement: "Nature takes
Argue, Award, Critique, Defend,
care of itself."
5. EVALUATING Interpret, Judge, Measure,
2. Judge the value of
Select, Test, Verify
requiring students to take
earth science.

6. CREATING

Synthesize, Arrange, Blend,

Create, Deduce, Devise,
Organize, Plan, Present,
Rearrange, Rewrite

1. Create a demonstration
to show various chemical
properties.
2. Devise a method to
teach others about
magnetism.

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Sample Student Inquiry Plan

What I
Know
Dinosaurs
are large.
Dinosaurs
are dead.

What I Want to
Find Out

What I Learned

How long ago did An archeologist has

they live?
an exciting life.

How Can I
Learn More
Research
Museums

Why did they die? Dinosaurs eat plants

and some eat meat. Field Trips
How do we know
They lived a what they looked Some dinosaurs were Archeologica
l digs
long time
like?
gigantic, but had
ago.
small brains.
Internet
Who are the
computer
There is a people who study
Fossils uncover
search
movie about
dinosaurs?
dinosaur traits
dinosaurs