Bloom’s Taxonomy can be an inspirational tool for coming up with lesson activities to use in your homeschool.
If you aren’t familiar with it, Bloom’s Taxonomy is a hierarchy of thinking skills. It includes six levels ranging from Remembering to Creating. Being familiar with these levels can help you develop lesson activities suitable to your child’s ability levels.
I have created some lists of activities for each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy for your use. You’ll find that some popular homeschooling activities such as notebooking and lapbooking are not included in these lists. That’s because they could potentially fit into multiple categories depending on what you have your child do. Discussions are the same way which is why I developed a list of questions based on Bloom’s Taxonomy in another post. Feel free to use that as a resource for developing lessons as well.
As you look over the lists, keep in mind that not all children will be able to function at all levels for every subject. It isn’t necessary that they do so. With observation and experience, you will come to recognize which lesson activities do work well for your child. However, he should gradually climb up the ladder of Bloom’s Taxonomy so that by the time he graduates, he can perform at all levels.
Lesson Activities
Remembering
Make a list
Label
Memorize
Recite
Practice flash cards
Make a mind map
Create a timeline
Make a chart or graph
Draw a picture or diagram
Locate and label items on a map
Do copywork
Do dictation
Answer multiple choice questions
Do fill-in-the-blanks
Take notes from a book or lecture
Spell
Relate observations (what did you see)
Listen
Read
Do a scavenger hunt
Understanding
Write a summary
Do a verbal or written narration
Write a book report
Do an analogy
Make an outline
Make a Venn diagram
Write a description of a character
Do sequencing activities
Alphabetize
Draw a picture of the main idea or the most important events
Applying
Role play
Demonstrate or teach someone a skill
Draw a map
Make a model to show how something works
Apply something learned in one subject to another
Make a crossword puzzle (or other puzzle) of concepts and terms learned
Make a Powerpoint presentation or some other multi-media presentation
Make a diorama of an event
Make a collage about a certain theme or concept
Write instructions for doing a certain activity
Use vocabulary words in a sentence
Use math in a real world situation like cooking
Analyzing
Make an outline
Make a questionnaire or survey
Debate
Dissect
Make a chart showing facts and opinions
Label the parts of something
Conduct an investigation
Make a family tree
Make a flow chart to show steps or stages
Compare and contrast
Diagram a sentence
Take something apart to see how it works
Put things into categories
Analyze a prayer or psalm
Evaluating
Conduct an experiment
Lead a discussion on the value of some concept
Write about the advantages and disadvantages of something
Evaluate the effectiveness of some item
Do a self-evaluation
Write a review
Rate something
Estimate the value of an item
Defend your position or another person’s position on some issue
Do peer-editing
Create a rubric for a project
Creating
Build
Design
Invent
Journal
Do a KWL chart
Create a product
Do creative writing
Write a song
Do an art project
Create a game
Write a new ending for a story
Write non-fiction
Develop your own science experiment or project
Write a diary entry of some person from history
Create a new way of solving a problem
Write a prayer
I hope you found this list of lesson activities helpful. You can find more valuable information about Bloom’s Taxonomy in these posts:
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