Bloom's triangle of thinking!!!

It is finally here! Time to buckle down and start getting a move on with this Unit Plan!!! I picked the topic of Communities Around the United States for a few reasons. I love the younger grades and since the beginning grades focus on learning about communities I figured that would be the most interesting topic for me to focus on. On NYLearns.org website it describes the curriculum of second grade social studies as looking at communites around the United States. I am looking forward to designing this unit plan and am excited to start looking at what activities should be incorporated, along with thinking of a good culminating project. It should be a great learning experience. A major topic of class has been Bloom's Taxonomy. The chart on the left represents the six levels of Blooms taxonomy...the revised version. The old version had Evaluating and Creating switched. Along with the words being replaced from nouns t verbs. The chart basically represents a learning tool in the classroom. It focuses on six levels of thinking, from basic to higher levels of thinking. Lower levels of thinking are Remembering and Understanding and the hgher levels of thinking include the top four. Remembering- involves recalling previous learned information. Understanding involves grasping the infromation just learned by interpreting it. Applying involves taking the information just learned and using it in a new way. Analysing is breaking information into parts. Evaluating involves the students making in depth reflection and making decisions based on these reflections. Creating is the highlest level of thinking and has the student creating new ideas from previous learned information. All of these levels of thinking should be incorporated into the classroom activies. The culminating project should involve the highest level of thinking, creating. It was good that we had lots of practice with using these six levels because it is a good guide to follow when creating activities.