MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES & BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

UNIT OF WORK

UNIT OF STUDY: My Place Nadia Wheatley YEAR LEVEL: Stage 2

Multiple Intelligences	Bloom’s Taxonomy: Six Thinking Levels
	Knowing	Understanding	Applying	Analysing	Creating	Evaluating
Verbal I enjoy reading, writing & speaking	Make up a crossword puzzle with the children, their family and friends from ‘My Place’	Choose one of the main buildings in the book and write its history	Choose a particular child in the book and write a letter from that child to another character in the book	Choose one of the times in the book and write a letter to the council about a neighbourhood problem	Develop a script for a TV program about some of the events in the book	Write a book review for ‘My Place’
Mathematical I enjoy working with numbers & science	How many years, decades, generations does the book cove	Make a time line of the introduction of Mod Cons up to the present day	Construct a mud map of where you live	Look at your time line. Predict how things will change in the future	Create a chart of the family origins of your class. Mark these places on a world map	It was no fun living in the olden days. Debate
Visual I enjoy painting drawing & visualising	Create your page for ‘My Place’	Prepare a flow chart to illustrate the sequence of events	Imagine you live in a previous decade. Draw yourself in that setting	Carry out a PMI on how the book is structured	Make a television episode about some of the events in the book	Think of all the places Australians live. Make a collage mural.
Kinaesthetic I enjoy doing hands-on activities	Play Guess Who. One child picks a name at Random, gives clues and the others guess who it is	Role play being a child from another time. Introduce yourself to someone else in the class	Design a questionnaire for new arrivals to Australia	Teach others how to make a meal originating from another country	Welcome to Australia. You are a roving reporter. Develop a sketch around an interview of new arrivals	Review another group sketch
Musical I enjoy making & listening to music	Learn a song from one of the decades in the book	Listen to some songs about home. Eg I still call Australia home Homeward bound	Select music for your sketch or TV show	Compare the themes in the songs about home	Compose new verses for the song Quartermasters store using ‘My Place’ Characters	Write a review of your favourite piece of music in this unit
Interpersonal I enjoy working with others	Make a brick wall mural where each child contributes a brick with details of their place	Discuss the effect man had on the environment through the book	Lead a group discussion on the advantages/ disadvantages of living now compared to another time in the book	Look at 1958, 1968 and 1978 and find out as much as you can about Michaelis’ family	Make a family tree for Michaelis	Collate your group my place pages into a book
Intrapersonal I enjoy working by myself	Write a description of your place	Share some of the things you like and don’t like about your family	Explain how you feel about your place	Prepare a mind map on problems and difficulties living now compared to then	Carry out an X chart on living as one of the characters in the book	Write an autobiography of one of the characters in the book