MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES & BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

UNIT OF WORK

UNIT OF STUDY: Term Program on ‘The Wizard of Oz’ YEAR LEVEL: K-1

Multiple Intelligences	Bloom’s Taxonomy: Six Thinking Levels
	Knowing	Understanding	Applying	Analysing	Creating	Evaluating
Verbal I enjoy reading, writing & speaking	Read Wiz of Oz, Meg and Mog and related theme reading material at own and progressing level, daily. Write and talk about theme, daily. Make word banks of theme words and add rules and sounds from these in spelling. Predict theme related books from covers. Learn and say rhymes and poems on theme. Role play the characters.	Write or dictate and copy, a narrative about one of the characters on paper and then on Kids Pix. Retell the story. Discuss and write a short recount. Read to class. Listen to the way the characters speak in the ‘Read’ version of the story and discuss the language and grammar. Write messages to the witches. Write own descriptions of places in book. Act out sections of the story. Talk about the Kansas environment.	Discuss dreams and stories and make believe. Write own dream. Write a make believe story. Read some simple make believe poems. Email (to me) a make believe friend. Write a procedure for making a magic spell. Discuss questions and statements by characters. Write on paper, Kid Pix and with pencil, chalk, paint and crayons. Be a witch and act out making the spell. Talk about the natural and built features of the Kansas farm.	Research past use of scarecrows. Write a short report in words or pictures and present to class. Make a Big Book. Discuss the purpose of the book. Name favourite books of a similar kind. Make wall hangings of ‘feeling’ and ‘doing’ verbs from story. Read parts of story with and without punctuation and discuss. Write own questions and statements as a character. Role play feelings from other stories. Compare the Kansas farm to our farms.	Plan and make a wall story of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ in groups. Create a set of simple directions to get to Oz. Create rhymes for the tinman or scarecrow or lion to chant. Plan a puppet show to interpret the story. Work on varying voice, tone, volume and pace to indicate emotions. Pretend one of the characters can’t speak English and devise a way to speak to it. Plan changes people could make to help Dorothy’s aunt and Uncle survive more easily on the farm.	Mini debate on true characteristics of the tinman, scarecrow, lion. Discuss again using 4 hats. Perform the puppet play with understanding of the feelings of the characters. Evaluate way we talk for news, discussions, role-play, acting, on telephone, playing and conversation. Discuss our language difficulties if we lived in another land. Discuss using 6 hats ‘Living in a green world.’ Consider how we depend on our environment to live.
Mathematical I enjoy working with numbers & science	Graph favourite narrative stories of class. Tessellate a yellow brick road. Make a tinman from polygons. Place characters and witches north, south, east and west. Interpret pictorial graphs Discuss things that melt	Research and experiments on things that rust. Consider the environment of the farm in Kansas. Discuss wind, moving air, cyclones. Discuss living and non-living things in reality from the story. Discuss why things melt.	Examine how to turn things green. Colour Wheel. Make picture chart of things that happen because of wind or moving air. Make a poster of living and non-living things. Discuss hot air balloons. Experiment with melting.	Finish symmetrical drawings of characters. Arrange character cut outs by height size. Record good and bad things caused by wind. Graph characteristics of those living things. Test 3D models , blowing over with a hairdryer. Cook with melted chocolate, butter etc.	Draw a random yellow brick road with chalk in playground. Estimate and measure its length. Make windmills and discuss their energy and use in our area. Plant and grow some poppies. Make frosty the snowman witches.	Make a time line for the story and justify your decisions. Discuss the effect of wind on our environment. Draw some conclusions of how to tell living from non-living. How to stop things from melting.
Visual I enjoy painting drawing & visualising	Listen to teacher read story of Wizard of Oz. Draw, paint cut out characters, scenes and label. Paint and draw other theme related pictures. Draw rainbows using correct sequence of colours.	Imagine yourself over a rainbow. Draw and paint or do on Kid Pix. Draw the witches making the spell above and label with speech bubbles. Draw pictures related to above descriptions. Paint mood and feeling pictures. Draw or paint Kansas in the drought and then after a rain.	Draw who, where, what, conclusion stories. Paint your dream. Make models 3D or 2D of Emerald City, using a variety of ideas to turn it green. Cut out random theme pictures and write one sentence about them. Draw or paint wind pictures on paper and using moopies. In pairs make a collage of living leaves and flowers and dead leaves and flowers. Do a colour wheel.	Make a chart of colours related to feelings. Create an advertisement for a scientist or wizard to get Dorothy home. Draw pictorial map of Oz. Illustrate the Big Book. Decorate wall hanging charts with borders and boxes. Art work on finishing symmetrical facial expressions. Draw a poster showing characteristics of living things.	Plan and design a hot air balloon. Illustrate the wall story. Make pictorial directions to get to Oz. Make a backdrop for the puppet show. Make a windmill picture with paint and scrap material. Paint and create a large mural for the back of the room. Paint lions.	Design pictorial chart of good and bad incidents in the story. Draw things that show being brave, caring and clever on a 3 segment chart. Draw a pictorial time line. Draw a before and after cyclone picture. Draw Oz before it was green. In pairs, draw a toy city like Noddy’s and a city with real people and living things.
Kinaesthetic I enjoy doing hands-on activities	Mime the developing stages of the story and play charades. Make 3D Meg and Mog. Munchkin fitness routines	Build castles and lands with blocks and toys. Make mobiles nouns from the story. Make a tinman. Make a sand tray model of the farm. Fitness for different kinds of munchkins Oz land hand-eye skills	Make green glasses and examine the school areas with them on. Make a witches cauldron and ingredients for a spell. Cook a witch cake. Create a collection of things brought from home that are rusty. Make kites and planes to fly in the wind. Make a hot air balloon. Using fitness for munchkin jobs Group hand-eye games	Act out, in pairs, the two characteristics of Lion, brave/scared, Scarecrow, smart/ no brain, Tinman, kind/no heart. Make scarecrows. Make 3D map of Oz. Test balloon with a hairdryer. Difference between munchkin games and Oz land games and witch games	Create outdoor games for good witches and bad witches. Create puppets for above play. Play with making facial expressions for the different situations. TV rolling duplicate of wall map. Make a Puppet theatre. Make variety of windmills and wind spinning objects. Make paper poppies. Make witches hats. Make lion masks. Create a games festival for all Oz creatures.	Discuss ‘feelings’ and the ‘heart’. KWNL heart transplants. Make puppets. Trial different models of hot air balloons and evaluate their success. Have a fun day at the Oz games.
Musical I enjoy making & listening to music	Sing songs from the musical, ‘The Wizard of Oz’. Sing songs related to the theme. Dance tinman, scarecrow and lion dances. Listen to introductions Use a microphone to sing	Re-write some Oz songs for different characters. Respond to dynamics and beat to move and interpret story. Dance as munchkins, poppies, cyclones….. Use untuned percussion to enhance above. Tape sound effects of wind. Discuss volume with mics.	Go and see Live Show Watch Garland version and cartoon version of video. Listen to mood music. Find songs about green. Find songs about wind, farms, rainbows, dreams, scarecrows, lions, robots. Playing songs with percussion. Use volume dials on microphones and speakers.	Produce sound effects on Kid Pix to enhance narrative from 2a Create songs for witches. Compare music from live show and videos. Selecting and organising sounds for munchkins, Oz, winged monkeys, witches. Sing ‘Home sweet home.’ Enhance sound effects with volume dials.	Invent dances for the munchkins/ winged monkeys/ witches. Putting sounds into the dances. Create symbols to organise the sounds. Perform together. Vary the dances with microphone interjections	Listen to sound effects on video/ watch without music / evaluate the effect of the music. Sounds of tornadoes Talk about likes and dislikes in the music. Did microphones add to the wizard’s power? Munchkins dance party as Infants shared school dance social.
Interpersonal I enjoy working with others	Group story writing of own ‘Meg and Mog’ books. Peer reading. Paired reporting. Group reciting of rhymes and poems. Big Book reading. Group reading. Class discussion on Dorothy’s safe and unsafe choices. Discuss how much we have grown.	In pairs, describe what the Kansas farm looked like and report to class. Discuss who, what, when, where, how at different stages of the story. Groups of 4 retelling story Groups or 4 recount. Paired writing messages. Paired Kid Pix stories. Peer reading Nominate some safer choices for Dorothy. Did Dorothy grow in story?	Same pair, illustrate the description made on Kansas farm and make a Y chart. Paired make believe story. Class circle story. Class creation of poems. Class email sessions. In pairs,’ emailing’ each other. Peer emailing. Peer story writing What are some safe choices we should make? Was Dorothy away a long time? (growth)	Class discussion on which Kansas characters were like the Oz land characters. Compare the video and the book. Group research on ‘Things that move by wind’. Group posters on same. Whole class wall mural. Did Dorothy change her mind about home?	Group construction of 2D or 3D storm and cyclone under a rainbow. Class wall story. Class rhymes. Group puppet shows. Group poppy growing. Pair, hot air balloons. Group backdrops for puppet show. Class outdoor game creation. Create a pictorial chart of Dorothy growing up.	Research and share findings about rainbows. KWNL. Read pot of gold at end of rainbow stories and discuss the appeal. Evaluate in pairs what makes us feel certain ways and report to class. Perform puppet play in groups. In pair act out talking to a friend who doesn’t speak English. How had Dorothy changed when she got home?
Intrapersonal I enjoy working by myself	List how you feel when you are frightened. Write and draw. Read to teacher every day. Daily individual writing. Daily individual news. Individual work sheets in English and Maths. Individual craft work.	Write a diary as Dorothy for 4 days. Own writing, retelling, descriptions. Home research on rust. Individual art, craft, Kid Pix work. IP reading program.	Illustrate your diary using Kid Pix and make a slide show. Write own dream and make believe story, procedure 3a Email a friend. 3a Own poster 3b	Analyse “There’s no place like home” and report what you think personally. Scarecrow research 4a Name favourite books 4a Individual activities from all above areas.	Use an X chart to reflect on Kansas farm and draw an improved version. Make windmill, lion, poppies, witches’ hats, lion masks. Do personal evaluation of the story and report back to class. Create a photo chart of yourself growing up and draw to adulthood.	Make short, individually planned speeches evaluating own feelings about the story of ‘The Wizard of Oz”.