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Levels of Thinking: According To Bloom's Taxonomy, He Distinguishes 6 Levels of Thinking As The Following Pyramid

The document outlines Bloom's Taxonomy, which categorizes six levels of thinking as a pyramid. The levels progress from basic recall of facts to more complex thought, and include Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. Each level is defined and examples of verbs associated with that level of thinking are provided. Suggestions are also given for encouraging each level of thinking in children, such as asking questions that require identifying, explaining, applying newly learned facts, taking ideas apart, creating new ideas, and evaluating materials.

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Levels of Thinking: According To Bloom's Taxonomy, He Distinguishes 6 Levels of Thinking As The Following Pyramid

The document outlines Bloom's Taxonomy, which categorizes six levels of thinking as a pyramid. The levels progress from basic recall of facts to more complex thought, and include Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. Each level is defined and examples of verbs associated with that level of thinking are provided. Suggestions are also given for encouraging each level of thinking in children, such as asking questions that require identifying, explaining, applying newly learned facts, taking ideas apart, creating new ideas, and evaluating materials.

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Levels of Thinking

According to Blooms Taxonomy, he distinguishes 6 levels of thinking as the


following pyramid:

Short Biography

Dr. Benjamin Bloom was born in February, 12 of 1913


and past away September, 13 of 1999.

He was an American educational psychologist who


proposed a theoretical ranking of the levels of thinking
that people use.

Before Starting

We have focused this presentation in general for


everyone, However in the way of how to
encourage the different levels, we gave advices
for children.

The first two levels are used by infants and


toddlers

Knowledge

It consists of acquiring basic pieces of information,


therefore is the simple learning of dates and facts.

Verbs of this level:

Define

Name

Response to when?, where? Or who?

Encouraging Knowledge

Asking children to Identify and describe

Comprehension

This levels involves looking at the meaning of the knowledge that has been
gathered.

The person can explain whit their own words and compare with other
ideas.

Verbs of this level:

Explain

Summarize

Give examples

Compare

Encouraging Comprehension

Makin good questions to children like the gray stone


doesnt float, what about the other stones?

Applying

It consists in breaking in parts something and explaining to oneself .

Verbs of this level:

Calculate

Demonstrate

Practice

Use

Apply

Encouraging Applying

Asking children to consider a newly learned fact as they


build or make something can foster this level of
thinking.

Analyzing
Taking something learned apart into separate components
for purposes of thinking about the parts and how they
fit together.

Verbs of this level:

Deduce

Illustrate

Discompose

Encouraging Analyzing

Asking children what materials could be used for a


particular classroom project.

Synthesizing
Generating or creating something different by assembling
or connecting ideas in a way that makes a whole.

Verbs of this level:

Create

Design

Produce

Organize

Encouraging Synthesizing

Asking children how to use an array of materials to


create, develop something.

Evaluating
Looking at the particular value of materials, information or
methods in characterizing the whole.

Verbs of this level:

Criticize

Evaluate

Judge

Select

Encouraging Evaluating

Asking children which of the materials that they used


worked better.

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