MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES & BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

UNIT OF WORK

UNIT OF STUDY:The Zoo. YEAR LEVEL:2

Multiple Intelligences	Bloom’s Taxonomy: Six Thinking Levels
	Knowing	Understanding	Applying	Analysing	Creating	Evaluating
Verbal I enjoy reading, writing & speaking	List animals that children have at home.	Prepare a two minute talk on your selected animal.	Design a poster to advertise The Zoo.	How does your pet differ from other animals?	Create a new cover for the book Zoo Animals.	Review the book Giraffes Cant Dance.
Mathematical I enjoy working with numbers & science	Research animals from the past.	Analyse how animals have changed.	Classify animals into two groups. Carnivorous and Herbatious.	What would your life be like if all animals were wild?	Design a new animal to live in the jungle.	Evaluate board games and justify why rules are important.
Visual I enjoy painting drawing & visualising	Paint a picture of you with your favourite zoo animal.	Make a time line of animals through the ages.	Create a board game similar to Snakes and Ladders on the concrete.	Compare herbatious and carnivorous animals on a Venn diagram.	Design and make an animal that moves.	Discuss animals in the zoo / wild. Draw or model results.
Kinaesthetic I enjoy doing hands-on activities	Miming animal movements.	Watch zoo babies video and mime the babies.	Dramatise being their mothers.	Teach others how to make a new game.	Perform the play “Zoo animals” to school assembly.	Evaluate the success of the play.
Musical I enjoy making & listening to music	Singing Zoo songs.	Playing songs that have a zoo theme.	Select percussion instruments to represent animal movements and sounds.	Compare and contrast animals that the class has made.	Compose a simple rap/ rhyme about zoo animals.	Review music used in video or on TV adds for animals.
Interpersonal I enjoy working with others	Re-telling in pairs zoo stories such as “The shaggy baggy elephant”.	Class discussion on similarities and differences of modern and pre-historic animals.	In a group, design a zoo indoor board game.	Interview parents about their childhood pets.	Carry out a Y chart on your favourite zoo animal.	Evaluate completed board games as a class using constructive but non-threatening criticism.
Intrapersonal I enjoy working by myself	How would you feel if we had no contact with animals.	Keep an ST diary for the whole of this unit.	Read book “Dancing Bears”. Discuss how bear feels when he is set free?	Prepare own mind map of “Dancing Bears”.	Predict why a particular animal will become extinct in the next 100 years.	Justify and nominate ways to prevent animal extinction.