Traci Minney TE600

Traci Minney TE600

Session 3 Taxonomies

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Bloom’s Taxonomy Level / Performance Objectives / Examples of Activities
Knowledge / The student will be able to identify West Virginia’s man-made and natural borders by labeling the borders on a map with 95% accuracy. (WV CSO SS.8.4.3) / Using a map of the state of West Virginia the students will identify the man-made borders of the state by coloring these borders red. Then they are to identify the natural borders of the state by coloring them blue.
Comprehension / Students will be able to draw conclusions about West Virginia and other areas using maps with 80% accuracy. (WV CSO 8.5.11) / Students will review and discuss how West Virginia’s geography played a role in the settlement and development of the state. The students will then use a political map and describe how the physical features of West Virginia had an effect on the people who settled and lived in the area.
Application / Students will be able to draw conclusions about West Virginia and other areas using a timeline to answer questions on a quiz with 85% accuracy. (WV CSO 8.5.11) / Students will use timelines in class to discuss and interpret information on the Civil War and what events led up to, happened during, and occurred afterward with the use of overheads and sample timelines. Students will then create a timeline of the major events of the Civil War.
Analysis / Students will be able to sequence and analyze the impact of contemporary social, economic, and technological developments on people and culture in West Virginia and the United States by sequencing information on a chart and explaining how advances in technology have had an effect on the people and culture of West Virginia through written statements.(WV CSO SS 8.5.7) / The students will discuss the modes of transportation used in the early 1800s in western Virginia. Using a table they have created using Microsoft word, students will then use at least six internet sites to find a picture to incorporate into their table to show the different forms of transportation as well as information on various modes of transportation used. The modes of transportation will be sequenced in order from the earliest form to the latest in the first column with the dates listed under each illustration, in the second column they will explain how the development of this form of transportation had an effect on the people and industry development of West Virginia, and in the third column they are to explain how the development of the particular form of transportation had an affect on the culture of the people of West Virginia.
Synthesis / Student will be able to develop a mock bill to promote tourism in West Virginia by creating a word document. (WV CSO SS 8.1.16) / The students will go the computer lab to look at and discuss bills that are already going through the House and the Senate as well current laws associated with tourism in the state of West Virginia. They are then to create and design their own bill that could be introduced into the House of Delegates or to the Senate.
Evaluation / Student will be able to develop a mock bill to promote tourism in West Virginia by creating a word document. (WV CSO SS 8.1.16) / Students will then take the mock bills they have created, present them to the class, summarize, the use of the bill, and try to convince their peers to vote for the bill. Students will then be able to assess the bills written, decide of if they would work, and vote on the bill

Tomei’s Taxonomy

Tomei’s Taxonomy Levels / Performance Objectives / Example of Activities
Literacy / 8th grade students will be able to locate at least six sites on the internet in relation to modes of transportation in the computer lab. / The students will use at least six sites on the internet in order to locate pictures related to various modes of transportation and fill in a chart in Microsoft Word related to transportation in West Virginia. They will cut, copy, and paste information relative to the modes of transportation an place them into a table labeled mode of transportation where they will put the date(s) of development underneath the picture, Affects on People and Industry, and Affects on the culture of the people in West Virginia. The information will then be saved to their folder, graded, and later printed
Collaboration / 8th grade students will use email for daily for six weeks to discuss the current temperature with a pen pal from another WV Studies class in Beckley, West Virginia in order to help demonstrate the ideas of vertical climate. / Daily during the West Virginia Studies course, the students will use an email account to email a pen pal in Beckley, WV in order for the students to see how vertical climate has an effect on the climate of this city. They will record their information and later graph it using Excel.
Decision-Making / 8th grade students will create a database in relation to 20 famous people of West Virginia that will include data on their date of birth, place of birth, and why they are remembered. / Students will use create a database of 20 famous West Virginians with data about their date of birth, place of birth, and why they are remembered in order to assist with the preparation of the Golden Horseshoe Test.
Infusion / 8th grade students will use the Enactz program to create poems related to the state of West Virginia and publish for the creation of a Suncrest Middle Poetry Pamphlet. / Students are to use the Enacts program to create a poem about the state of West Virginia that will be published and displayed within the school office.
Integration / 8th grade students will create an interactive power point activity on Civil War Battles in West Virginia that will be used in class to assist with the study of the Civil War in West Virginia. / Students will go to the lab in order to create an interactive power point presentation that will include maps, vocabulary, quizzes, and information related to the Civil War battles in West Virginia that will later be presented to the class
Tech-ology / 8th grade students will use the lab to have an open forum with political leaders (Senators and Delegates) to discuss the importance of distance learning and how distance learning would have a positive influence on their education. / The students would email and establish a connection time to use our distance learning lab in order to discuss the issues and importance of distance learning education with the West Virginia Senators and Delegates. They would be trying to promote Senators and Delegates to assist with the funding of these forms of technologies in schools across West Virginia.
Performance Objectives / PO on Bloom’s Taxonomy / PO on Tomei’s Taxonomy
The students will be able to sequence and analyze the impact of contemporary social, economic, and technological developments on people and culture in West Virginia and the United States by sequencing information on a chart and explaining how advances in technology have had an effect on the people and culture of West Virginia through written statements.(WV CSO SS 8.5.7) / Bloom’s Taxonomy
Analysis
The students will discuss the modes of transportation used in the early 1800s in western Virginia. Using a table they have created using Microsoft word, students will then use at least six internet sites to find a picture to incorporate into their table to show the different forms of transportation as well as information on various modes of transportation used. The modes of transportation will be sequenced in order from the earliest form to the latest in the first column with the dates listed under each illustration, in the second column they will explain how the development of this form of transportation had an effect on the people and industry development of West Virginia, and in the third column they are to explain how the development of the particular form of transportation had an affect on the culture of the people of West Virginia. / Tomei’s Taxonomy
Literacy
The students will use at least six sites on the internet in order to locate pictures related to various modes of transportation and fill in a chart in Microsoft Word related to transportation in West Virginia. They will cut, copy, and paste information relative to the modes of transportation an place them into a table labeled mode of transportation where they will put the date(s) of development underneath the picture, Affects on People and Industry, and Affects on the culture of the people in West Virginia. The information will then be saved to their folder, graded, and later printed