MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES & BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

UNIT OF WORK

UNIT OF STUDY: Government YEAR LEVEL: Stage 3

Multiple Intelligences	Bloom’s Taxonomy: Six Thinking Levels
	Knowing	Understanding	Applying	Analysing	Creating	Evaluating
Verbal I enjoy reading, writing & speaking	List as many people in Federal parliament as you can and identify their position	Prepare a three minute talk on the three levels of government in Australia	Design a poster for a political party. Use digital camera for photos	Write a letter to your local member of parliament about an issue in the community	Create a new political party with its own platform	Review different government systems in the world
Mathematical I enjoy working with numbers & science	Find out the number of government and opposition members in each of the houses of parliament	Make a flow chart of how an election works	Examine why Australia needed to become a Federation	Conduct a PMI on the establishment of a federation	Devise a new law that needs to go through parliament	Justify why a law should be changed
Visual I enjoy painting drawing & visualising	Make an illustrated time of Austr alian PM’s from federation until nowe	Show how state borders have changed fron the early 1800’ to the time of federation	Draw your design for a new parliament house	Use a Venn Diagram to compare the upper and lower houses	Create a pamphlet for your new party or prepare a powerpoint presentation about your party	Prepare guidelines to evaluate Australia’s constitution
Kinaesthetic I enjoy doing hands-on activities	Debate the law you wish to introduce	Role play different roles in Parliament	Run an election	Teach other students how an election works	Present your candidates speech	Offer feedback to candidates regarding their speech (De Bono’s thinking hats)
Musical I enjoy making & listening to music	Learn some past jingles of political parties	Analyse what the political parties were trying to say	Select music for your political party	Make up a jingle for your party in groups	Write a house of reps rap and a senate rap	Perform your rap
Interpersonal I enjoy working with others	Choose a state and outline the arguments for or against federation	Determine issues that you think are important for your party	In a group outline the policies of your party
Intrapersonal I enjoy working by myself	Describe how you would feel if you were prime minister	Visualise you are in parliament Y Chart	Explain how you feel about living in a democracy	Mind map all the things you have learned about government	Predict what will happen if Australia becomes a republic	Carry out a SWOT analysis on our current system of government