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Bloom's Taxonomy

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Description

This interactive MicroSim displays Bloom's Revised Taxonomy as a colorful pyramid visualization. Bloom's Taxonomy is a hierarchical framework used by educators to classify learning objectives into levels of complexity and specificity.

Features

  • Interactive Pyramid: Hover over each level to explore its meaning
  • Detailed Information Panel: Shows action verbs and examples for each cognitive level
  • Progress Tracking: Counter in the upper-right shows how many levels you've explored
  • Celebration Animation: View all six levels to trigger a colorful celebration
  • Click to Reset: Click the counter after the celebration to start over

The Six Cognitive Levels

From the base (lower-order thinking) to the apex (higher-order thinking):

  1. Remember (Red) - Retrieving relevant knowledge from long-term memory
  2. Understand (Orange) - Constructing meaning from instructional messages
  3. Apply (Yellow) - Carrying out or using a procedure in a given situation
  4. Analyze (Green) - Breaking material into parts and determining relationships
  5. Evaluate (Blue) - Making judgments based on criteria and standards
  6. Create (Purple) - Putting elements together to form a coherent whole

Embedding This MicroSim

You can include this MicroSim on your website using the following iframe:

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<iframe src="https://dmccreary.github.io/automating-instructional-design/sims/bloom-taxonomy/main.html" height="452px" scrolling="no"></iframe>

Lesson Plan

Objective

Students will understand and apply Bloom's Taxonomy to analyze and create effective learning objectives.

Activities

  1. Exploration (5 minutes): Have students hover over each level of the pyramid to discover the action verbs and examples associated with each cognitive level.

  2. Discussion (10 minutes): As a class, discuss:

  3. Why are the levels arranged in a pyramid?
  4. What makes "Create" more complex than "Remember"?

  5. How do the levels build upon each other?

  6. Application (15 minutes): Give students a topic from their curriculum and have them write one learning objective for each level of the taxonomy.

  7. Analysis (10 minutes): Have students exchange objectives with a partner and identify which level each objective represents using the action verbs from the MicroSim.

Assessment

Students demonstrate understanding by correctly classifying learning objectives and creating their own objectives at multiple cognitive levels.

References

  • Wikipedia Image
  • Anderson, L.W., & Krathwohl, D.R. (Eds.). (2001). A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Longman.
  • Bloom, B.S. (Ed.). (1956). Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals. Handbook I: Cognitive Domain. Longman.