MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES & BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

UNIT OF WORK

UNIT OF STUDY: Australia Your Standing in It. YEAR LEVEL: 3 - 6

Multiple Intelligences	Bloom’s Taxonomy: Six Thinking Levels
	Knowing	Understanding	Applying	Analysing	Creating	Evaluating
Verbal I enjoy reading, writing & speaking	List places in Australia that students have /would like to visit. Locate on maps.	Describe why you would like to visit this place .Out line what particular activities are associated with this place.	Design a poster to encourage others to visit this place.	Compare drawings and analyse common features. Compare local area to other parts of Australia/the world.	Create an acrostic poem of a place you have/would like to visit.	Evaluate each other’s poems to see if they would convince you to visit that place.
Mathematical I enjoy working with numbers & science	Complete retrieval chart to show significance of these and other places. (natural, religious, historical)	Draw a map of Australia from modelled example. Draw pictures given	Show states capitals and places identified as significant-cities, landforms, rivers, sacred sites (natural and built)	Research site/ place. Record state/territory, nearest city, why it is significant.	Create a model of the site.	What strategies would you recommend to preserve the site?
Visual I enjoy painting drawing & visualising	Make an itinerary to show how you would visit 5 of these places.	Draw pictures of the items you would need to pack for the trip.	Produce a map to show the route and mode of transport for the trip.	Use a Venn diagram to compare the clothing that will be taken to the different locations.	Write a cartoon strip about an incident that happened at one of the locations.	Design a board game for a trip around Australia based on Possum Magic.
Kinaesthetic I enjoy doing hands-on activities	Spell the names of the Australian states/territories and their capitals using counters/MAB blocks.	Make a jog saw puzzles from a map of Australia to indicate the state/territory divisions.	Explain how aboriginal names were used to describe different areas in Australia.	Magazine search to find different holiday destinations. Produce a TV add to publicise the place.	Create a play from an Aboriginal Dreaming Story that records changes to the Australian landform (e.g. The Three Sisters)	Play a game on an enlarged playground map of Australia associated with capitals, significant places, and compass directions.
Musical I enjoy making & listening to music	Learn “The Road to Gundagai”.	Listen to “Give me a home Among the gum trees”.	Write a rap for a “significant place.”	Compare and contrast the raps to “Home among the gum trees”.	Compose a soundscape to go with a song of own choice that features a special place.	Mime/ choreograph a dance to go with chosen song.
Interpersonal I enjoy working with others	Within a group discuss how and why people modify the environment and places.	Discuss how different groups see the same area-sacred aboriginal sites versus developers, loggers and environmentalists.	Invite a representative to talk about preservation of the environment.	Talk to people about how they would feel if a significant site e.g.midden was discovered in their locality
Intrapersonal I enjoy working by myself	How would you like to live in…(place that has been discussed)? (Why/why not/)	What would you like least/most about the place?	How would you feel if your favourite site was damaged? Make a newspaper report, which reflects the incident and your feelings.	Choose a site and explain how it has been changed over time by natural or human influence.	Predict might happen to this site in the future.	Assess places of value. Discuss ways in which students can assist in caring for places of heritage value.