Bloom's Critical Thinking

Topic - Year - Remembering Factual answers, recall and recognition

Understanding Translating, interpreting, showing understanding

Applying Using information gained in different, familiar situations

Analysing Break into parts to examine more closely

Evaluating Judge, use criteria, rank, substantiate

Creating Combine information with new situations to create new products, ideas, etc. Revised Blooms Taxonomy – Verbs, Materials/situations that require this level of thinking, Potential activities and products REMEMBERING UNDERSTANDING APPLYING ANALYSING EVALUATING CREATING

S Tell, List, Describe, Relate, Explain, Interpret, Outline, Solve, Show, Use, Analyse, Distinguish, Judge, Select, Choose, Create, Invent, Compose, B Locate, Write, Find, State, Discuss, Distinguish, Predict, Illustrate, Construct Examine, Compare Decide, Predict R Name, Identify, Label, Restate, Translate, Compare, Complete, Examine Contrast, Investigate Justify, Debate, Plan, Construct E

V Recall, Define, Recognise, Describe, Relate, Generalise, Classify, Choose Categorise, Identify Verify, Argue, Design, Imagine Match, Reproduce, Summarise, Put into your Interpret, Make Explain, Separate Recommend, Assess, Propose, Devise Memorise, Draw, Select, own words, Paraphrase, Put together, Change, Advertise, Take apart Discuss, Rate, Prioritise, Formulate, Combine, Write, Recite Convert, Demonstrate, Apply, Produce, Translate, Differentiate, Subdivide, Determine, Critique, Hypothesize, Originate, Visualise, Find out more Calculate, Manipulate, deduce, Evaluate, Criticise, Weigh, Add to, Forecast, information about Modify, put into practice Value, estimate, defend

S Events, people, newspapers, Speech, stories, drama, Diagrams, sculptures, Surveys, questionnaires, Recommendations, self- Experiments, games, L I magazine articles, cartoons, diagrams, graphs, illustrations, arguments, models, evaluations, group songs, reports, poems, A

R definitions, videos, dramas, summaries, outlines, dramatisations, forecasts, displays, demonstrations, discussions, debates, court speculations, creations, art, E

T textbooks, films, television analogies, posters, bulletin problems, puzzles, diagrams, systems, trials, standards, editorials, inventions, drama, rules. A programs, recordings, media boards. organisations, conclusions, reports, values. M

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