MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES & BLOOM’S TAXONOMY
UNIT OF WORK
UNIT OF STUDY:The Zoo. YEAR LEVEL:2
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 animals that children have at home. / Prepare a two minute talk on your selected animal. / Design a poster to advertise The Zoo. / How does your pet differ from other animals? / Create a new cover for the book Zoo Animals. / Review the book Giraffes Cant Dance.
Mathematical
I enjoy working with numbers & science / Research animals from the past. / Analyse how animals have changed. / Classify animals into two groups. Carnivorous and Herbatious. / What would your life be like if all animals were wild? / Design a new animal to live in the jungle. / Evaluate board games and justify why rules are important.
Visual
I enjoy painting drawing & visualising / Paint a picture of you with your favourite zoo animal. / Make a time line of animals through the ages. / Create a board game similar to Snakes and Ladders on the concrete. / Compare herbatious and carnivorous animals on a Venn diagram. / Design and make an animal that moves. / Discuss animals in the zoo / wild.
Draw or model results.
Kinaesthetic
I enjoy doing hands-on activities / Miming animal movements. / Watch zoo babies video and mime the babies. / Dramatise being their mothers. / Teach others how to make a new game. / Perform the play “Zoo animals” to school assembly. / Evaluate the success of the play.
Musical
I enjoy making & listening to music / Singing Zoo songs. / Playing songs that have a zoo theme. / Select percussion instruments to represent animal movements and sounds. / Compare and contrast animals that the class has made. / Compose a simple rap/ rhyme about zoo animals. / Review music used in video or on TV adds for animals.
Interpersonal
I enjoy working with others / Re-telling in pairs zoo stories such as “The shaggy baggy elephant”. / Class discussion on similarities and differences of modern and pre-historic animals. / In a group, design a zoo indoor board game. / Interview parents about their childhood pets. / Carry out a Y chart on your favourite zoo animal. / Evaluate completed board games as a class using constructive but non-threatening criticism.
Intrapersonal
I enjoy working by myself / How would you feel if we had no contact with animals. / Keep an ST diary for the whole of this unit. / Read book “Dancing Bears”. Discuss how bear feels when he is set free? / Prepare own mind map of “Dancing Bears”. / Predict why a particular animal will become extinct in the next 100 years. / Justify and nominate ways to prevent animal extinction.
