Tomei S Taxonomy

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.