MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES & BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

UNIT OF WORK

UNIT OF STUDY: Outback YEAR LEVEL: Stage 2/ 3

Multiple Intelligences	Bloom’s Taxonomy: Six Thinking Levels
	Knowing	Understanding	Applying	Analysing	Creating	Evaluating
Verbal I enjoy reading, writing & speaking	Brainstorm then list outback tourist sites.	Explain why you chose your outback tourist site as well as the importance of tourism to the outback economy. (project)	Design a travel brochure of your chosen outback site. Or construct a poster to illustrate the steps involved in a medical emergency in the outback.	How does your outback site differ from urban areas?	Prepare a marketing campaign for the outback	Recommend how to improve the outback or protect Uluru from the wear and tear of all the tourists climbing it, or help farmers suffering from drought.
Mathematical I enjoy working with numbers & science	How much will it cost to live in your outback site for a week/ month/ year?	Prepare a flow chart of a weather vane or an anemometer being built.	Which state has the largest area classified as outback? Which outback area has the highest recorded annual rainfall?	Design an experiment to measure wind direction.	Same as above	Justify the amount your country spends on outback drought relief.
Visual I enjoy painting, drawing & visualising	Make a timeline of events in the history of the Flying Doctors.	Draw a map to show where the outback is in Australia, then in these outback areas prepare a collage on the outback.	Write a television advertisement about the outback.	Compare and contrast the outback to urban environments in terms of weather, lifestyles, people, services or the landscape.	Design and create a sculpture of an image of the outback.	Evaluate an Australian artist’s representation of the Australian outback.
Kinaesthetic I enjoy doing hands-on activities	Mime various methods of droving stock.	Act out a poem about droving.	Role play the interaction of the Flying Doctors with an injured or sick patient.	Design a physical education program for school of the air students to get ready for the annual school of the air athletics carnival.	Create and perform a play dealing with an environmental issue, for example drought or El Nino	Devise an outback game that could be used to teach others.
Musical I enjoy making & listening to music	Learn a song dealing with an aspect of the outback. Or use various implements found in the outback as musical instruments.	Write a song about people living in the outback.	Write a rap rhyming song about the Flying Doctors or droving.	Music should be banned for students while they are doing their school of the air lessons. Valid or not	Compose outback or weather related noises using many instruments.	Act and choreograph a dance about droving in the outback.
Interpersonal I enjoy working with others	What would Australia be like without the outback?	What makes the outback the outback? Also discuss the major issues facing farmers in the outback.	With another student design an experiment to measure wind speed.	Conduct a mock interview with either outback people, tour operators, or an outback tourist who has already been to the site- their point of view	How would your life change if you were to move to the outback?	Interview a farmer about the effects of drought.
Intrapersonal I enjoy working by myself	What can we do to protect significant outback sites?	If rain does not arrive how will the outback people cope? If the El Nino sets in how will outback farmers cope? (Y chart)	Impersonate a well known person who has been significant to outback Australia.	Self evaluation of project	You are standing at the top of Uluru! Now complete an x chart (write a description based on this). Or predict what the outback will be like in the year 2030.	Tourists should be banned from climbing Uluru! Do a SWOT.