Bloom's Taxonomy

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Benjamin Bloom created a taxonomy of thinking levels in the 1950's. Today educators use Bloom's Taxonomy to create challenging and sophisticated activities for learning.

Knowledge - Get your facts right!- the easiest of thinking levels where you need to describe and identify things to show you have remembered or learned.
Comprehension - What does it all mean?- this type of thinking activity is to show that you understand what you have learned.
Application - Use it or lose it! - you'll need to think a little harder to do these activities where you'll need to make use of information to make something.
Analysis - Breakdown - these thinking activities need to connect and organise information.
Synthesis - Creating new things - this level of thinking needs to you take little pieces of information and create something new.
Evaluation - Judge and Jury - with these activities you'll need to make judgements and think hard to support your opinions.

Benjamin S. Bloom 'Taxonomy of educational objectives.'
Published by Allyn and Bacon, Boston, MA. Copyright (c) 1984 by Pearson Education.

NTCF Outcome Links:

EsseNTial Learnings - In 1, In 2, In 3, Cr 1, Cr 2, Cr 3

Bloom's Taxonomy at Larapinta:

Christmas Tree decorated with activities based on various levels of Bloom's Taxonomy eg

Knowledge - ask 5 people you know what they think is the meaning of Christmas, write their answers down.

Analysis - write and illustrate a set of instructions for wrapping a bicycle or putting lights on a Christmas Tree.

Larapinta Primary School, 2008