Higher level learning lesson plan

Review a higher level lesson plan and say what you liked about it

Bloom (1956) identified six domains of for knowledge and intellectual development. These include:

·      Knowledge: Recall data or information.
·         Comprehension: Understand the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one's own words.
·        Application: Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in the work place.
·       Analysis: Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences
·     Synthesis: Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.
·    Evaluation: Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.

The last three are considered higher levels of learning.

http://users.manchester.edu/student/jmwilliams02/profwebsite/finalunitplanpresidents.pdf

I liked this lesson plan because it is a well thought out and detailed plan for kindergarten children. The lesson plan also illustrated Bloom’s higher learning levels (analysis, synthesis, and evaluation). In the lesson on “Presidents” the students had to decipher fact from what was inferred in a pretest and on a chart that had to make. They also had to know the concept of what it to be the present of the United States and what the various flags and symbols (president’s day) represent. They also had share facts, their views and opinions about the presidents which involves some level of evaluation. The   activities, evaluation and questioning throughout the lesson also demonstrated higher level focus.  I would have loved to observe this lesson also.