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Bloom's Taxonomy

Foundational Knowledge Built Upon Bloom's Taxonomy

A working knowledge of Bloom's Taxonomy in relationship to effective 

questioning skills will serve as a strong foundation to build upon for 

content area specific questioning skills.

There are 6 levels of Bloom's Taxonomy: 

Knowledge

Comprehension

Application

Analysis

Synthesis

Evaluation

Each one is important.  The 1st three in the list above serve as a platform 

for the latter three.  The latter three would be considered higher order 

thinking skills (HOTS).  

Visit all of the links below and actively participate in the activities 

provided on some of the sites. If you are working with a partner compare and 

discuss your activity responses. 

Link 1 will provide a basic understanding of each level of Bloom's Taxonomy 

and opportunity to interact and create your own sample questions at each 

level.  

Links 2, 3, and 5 will be useful sources for you to reference while 

completing activities.  You may want to bookmark these links for future easy 

reference.  They will serve as a guide and a support in developing quality 

questions for your lesson plans that will facilitate the development of 

critical thinking skills in your students.

Link 4 will place demands on you to incorporate HOTS as you apply, analyze, 

synthesize, and evaluate the content found on this site into purposeful 

activities that you may use with your students.

Link 1     PPT :  THE BIG BAD WOLF MEETS BLOOM'S TAXONOMY

An informative PowerPoint on Bloom's Taxonomy.  It is interactive with 

opportunity to practice creating your own questions at each level of 

Bloom's.  Ample supports are built into this area of the PPT.

The Big Bad Wolf Meets Bloom's Taxonomy  - Develop tasks that require high order thinking skills.
(click on the 2nd hyperlink down on the above page) 

Link 2     BLOOM'S TAXONOMY BREAKDOWN:

Roles, Process Verbs & Products from Bloom’s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain

A helpful chart for easy reference.  You may want to print out the chart 

and/ or bookmark this site for easy reference.
http://nerds.unl.edu/pages/preser/sec/articles/blooms.html

Link 3     MAJOR CATEGORIES IN THE TAXONOMY OF EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

An informative web site that also provides links to other quality sites on 

Bloom's should you want more information.  It is suggested that you bookmark 

this site for future easy reference.
http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/guides/bloom.html

Link 4     ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS

(Allow approximately 3 hours to complete.  You make break that into 3 

seperate sessions if you'd like - the choice is yours.)

Read through each section of this mini-WebQuest site *as well as the 

resources provided (as they are excellent). Take notes as needed. After you 

are familiar with higher order thinking skills, Bloom's Taxonomy, and the 

difference between assessments OF learning vs. assessments FOR learning, you will create 
a two-page questionnaire for your students using one of the free 

test-making sites provided. This will allow you to view results and create 

other surveys for your students. It will also help you create good questions.

Link 5    APPLYING BLOOM'S TAXONOMY

“Extending Children’s Special Abilities – Strategies for primary classrooms”

Included on this page are suggested ACTIVITIES to engage your STUDENTS in 

that correlate with the various levels of Bloom's as well as questioning 

skills.  This is also another useful reference chart to print out and 

bookmark.

**  As you plan your lessons this week scaffold instruction building upon 

and using all levels of Blooms Taxonomy.  Aim to move students into the 

upper 3 levels into critical thinking.  (Problem based learning & project 

OTHER RESOURCES

Take a moment to think of and search for other resources on quality 

Questioning Skills as they relate to HOTS and Bloom's Taxonomy.  Record them 

in a Journal to share with colleagues.  Also, feel free to share them with 

me via e-mail, as I may choose to include them when I periodically update 

this site. 

Although this is a WebQuest, resources do not have to be solely limited to 

web sites.

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JR James
contact me at: jamesjan@shu.edu
Last update:  08/04/2005