MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES & BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

UNIT OF WORK

UNIT OF STUDY: State and National Parks YEAR LEVEL: Stage 2

Multiple Intelligences	Bloom’s Taxonomy: Six Thinking Levels
	Knowing	Understanding	Applying	Analysing	Creating	Evaluating
Verbal I enjoy reading, writing & speaking	List parks and categorise according to State or national	Explain why you chose your national/state park as well as the ir importance for conservation	Design a promotion brochure for your chosen park	Create a data base of what the parks have in common and how they are different	Design a promotional poster for your park	Create a conservation plan for the park, taking into consideration any tourism issues
Mathematical I enjoy working with numbers & science	How much does it cost to maintain your park for a year	Rank parks in terms of importance to our Australian heritage and give reasons for the first three	On a map of Australia, mark your top 5 parks	Discover how many parks Australia has with the world heritage listings. Why do they have the listing	Design an add campaign for your park	Discuss whether we should spend public money on national parks
Visual I enjoy painting drawing & visualising	Make a timeline of the establishment of national parks in Australia	Draw scenes from your national /state park	Draw a map showing the location of your national park and create a collage around it	Compare and contrast two parks from different geographical locations		Evaluate some of the promotional material you have seen about your park eg internet, magazines
Kinaesthetic I enjoy doing hands-on activities	Mime a park ranger activity in a national park	Act out a camping scene	Role play a park ranger talking with visitors to the park	Design a program to teach students rules and responsibilities associated with your park	Create a small play about damage to a national park by human interference	Perform your play
Musical I enjoy making & listening to music	Learn some songs based on the environment – Rainforest etc	Write a jingle to promote your national / state park	Write a RAP about park rules	Analyse the sound effects in rainforest music	Make a sound map of a walk through your national park
Interpersonal I enjoy working with others	Prepare a group presentation on a national park	Discuss the problems faced by national parks	Write suitable questions to pose to other groups about their projects	Prepare a survey and interview parents about your groups national park	Carry out an X chart on an endangered animal from a national park	Interview a state or national park ranger
Intrapersonal I enjoy working by myself	Discuss the importance of maintaining the environment	Visualise and write a description of a scene in your park	Write a story about a visit to a National park	Self evaluation of your promotional poster	Prdict the effect of global warming on our parks	Carry out a SWOT analysis on National and State parks