MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES & BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

UNIT OF WORK

UNIT OF STUDY: Flight YEAR LEVEL: 5/6

Multiple

Intelligences
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Bloom’s Taxonomy: Six Thinking Levels

Knowing
/ Understanding / Applying / Analysing / Creating / Evaluating

Verbal

I enjoy reading, writing & speaking / List the different types of ‘flight’ transport / Write an information report about one aspect of flight. / Prepare and deliver a short speech contrasting several forms of flight transport. / Investigate more unusual forms of flight by reading and researching in the library. / Predict what would happen if some or all of flight transport stopped working. / Form teams and conduct a debate. ‘ Should all airlines tickets be the same price’ for domestic flights?’
Mathematical
I enjoy working with numbers & science / Classify your list into jet, propeller, sail, wings / Research the number of people in a primary class who have been on a flight recently. / Construct a map of Australia. Obtain flight distance and times. / Analyse speed of plane and distance flown into hours and minutes. / Create a plan to the improve the seating aspects of a plane (given the measurements & maximum capacity) / Complete an evaluation of an excursion to an airport,

Visual

I enjoy painting drawing & visualising / Graph the types of planes. Research what airlines have as their ‘fleet’ / Design and colour Boeing 747 plane to reflect a new
design for the Australian Olympians to travel to Greece / Create a slide show with information/ description or narrative – using pictures located on the internet / Invent a ‘perfect’ seat/bed for ultimate travel
Illustrate and label. / Invent a form of futuristic flight.
Design and illustrate. / Discuss the futuristic flight designs. Could they ever work?

Kinaesthetic

I enjoy doing hands-on activities / Game. Charades Describe through mime – words associated with flight. / Draw an aerial view of a city from a plane / Construct an airplane from a variety of materials – paper, balsa etc / Role play the safety briefing from a plane. (after reading airplane safety brochure) / Create a board (in Microsoft word Tables) with a flight theme. / Design and create a poster/ mini project showing what you have learnt about flight

Musical

I enjoy making & listening to music / Learn and sing- ‘Leaving on a jet plane’ / Create percussion rhythms to accompany song . Up Up and away in my beautiful balloon / Listen to ‘sounds tape’ and classify sounds as – plane, helicopter, / Re create sounds of airplanes to make a sound scape / In a group compose a ‘flight rap’. / Perform ‘ flying/flight’ songs at Assembly.

Interpersonal

I enjoy working with others / Test your plane against other class members. / Design and put together a wall mural the history of flight with pictures and information. / With a friend, draw/ illustrate and label an airplane from earlier times / In small groups investigate the flight patterns of Qantas, Virgin Blue – compare. / With a partner create a new logo for Qantas. / In a group devise safety and security signs for use at a airport. (to assist first time travellers or non English speaking passengers)

Intrapersonal

I enjoy working by myself / Describe how you felt (would feel) standing, waiting to board your first flight. / Write a diary entry about the excursion to an airport. / What would you like to experience as a passenger on a long haul flight given the choices available
Research airline websites. / Why is it exciting going to the airport? Choose a destination anywhere in the world. Explain choices. / Predict what flight will be like in the future. / Complete a personal reflection on the ‘flight’ unit.