38 Question Starters based on Bloom’s Taxonomy - Curriculet

Curriculet is free for teachers and students. Get started here. This is the 2nd post in a series on how to write better curriculets (and literacy curriculum). Our first post can be found here. In this blog post, Lindsey Howe shares some of the best practices she has developed as a teacher and curriculet writer. Lindsey is one of Curriculet’s first writers and she has taught high school English for 8 years. Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to Write Curriculets By Lindsey Howe, Curriculet writer and teacher During the five months I have been writing for Curriculet, I have experimented with many different ways to tackle question-crafting. While looking for ways to improve my questions, I discovered this list of 38 question starters based on Bloom’s Taxonomy. List of Question Starter Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy This list moves through the 6 taxonomy levels with questions for each one. Level 1: Remember – Recalling Information Question Starters: What is…? Can you explain why…? What would happen if…?

Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles How to Teach Your Kids Critical Thinking Skills: A Great Introductory Resource With two 5-year-olds and a 4-year-old in our family, bad logic frequently permeates our home. Here are two conversations just from yesterday: Me to my 4-year-old daughter: “Can you please put that blue ball away?” My daughter: “Mommy, I’m not wearing blue today. Logic fail: Not wearing blue has nothing to do with whether or not you got the ball out. Me to my 5-year-old daughter: “It looks like you need to go potty. My daughter: “No, mommy I don’t need to go.” Me: “Then why are you walking like a duck?” My daughter: “Because I need to go potty.” Me: “You just said you didn’t.” My daughter: “Right, because I don’t.” Logic fail: Totally inconsistent responses. It’s pretty easy for adults to call out kids when they’re using poor logic. Consider the following statement that commonly gets tossed around the internet. “Religion is just an accident of geography. (This is called a genetic fallacy – saying something can’t be true because of where it began, how it began, or who began it.

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Critical and Creative Thinking - Bloom's Taxonomy What are critical thinking and creative thinking? What's Bloom's taxonomy and how is it helpful in project planning? How are the domains of learning reflected in technology-rich projects? Benjamin Bloom (1956) developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior in learning. This taxonomy contained three overlapping domains: the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective. Within the cognitive domain, he identified six levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Critical Thinking Critical thinking involves logical thinking and reasoning including skills such as comparison, classification, sequencing, cause/effect, patterning, webbing, analogies, deductive and inductive reasoning, forecasting, planning, hypothesizing, and critiquing. Creative thinking involves creating something new or original. Knowledge Examples: dates, events, places, vocabulary, key ideas, parts of diagram, 5Ws Comprehension Application Analysis Synthesis Evaluation Other Sites