MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES & BLOOM’S TAXONOMY

UNIT OF WORK

UNIT OF STUDY: The First Fleet YEAR LEVEL: Stage 2

Multiple Intelligences	Bloom’s Taxonomy: Six Thinking Levels
	Knowing	Understanding	Applying	Analysing	Creating	Evaluating
Verbal I enjoy reading, writing & speaking	List the ships in the first Fleet	Describe what it was like to be on the first fleet as a convict	Illustrate and write a news report on Captain Phillip’s landing at Port Jackson	Investigate how the convicts lived in the early colony	You are Captain Phillip. Design a plan for the settlement to house convicts and free settlers	You are a convict. Write an argument stating whether starting the colony was a good idea or not
Mathematical I enjoy working with numbers & science	Find out about the supplies brought by the first fleet and what it would have cost	Prepare a flow cart to illustrate events from the time the first fleet was thought about	Construct a map showing the voyage of the first fleet	Carry out a PMI on the reasons for the first fleet	Predict the cost of feeding the convicts on the voyage	Discuss whether the convicts deserved to be sent to NSW
Visual I enjoy painting drawing & visualising	Paint a picture of the ships in Port Jackson	Y chart. Visualise you are a soldier with the first fleet	In small groups make a board game based on the voyage of the first fleet**	Venn diagram Compare how the first settlers coped with the environment compared with the Aboriginal people	Create some of the rock art the first settlers may have seen	Draw an outline of port Jackson and highlight the important features for the settlers
Kinaesthetic I enjoy doing hands-on activities	Constuct a data base on 10 convicts on the first fleet	Make a model of a dwelling in the first settlement	Using the models of dwelling construct a group version of the first settlement	Write a letter from a convict to a friend in England and tell them about the colony	There are few roads. Design a vehicle for transporting supplies	Play some of the games and rate them. You should explain your rating
Musical I enjoy making & listening to music	Learn “ The black velvet band”	Discover what the song is about. What happened to the singer?	Make a sound map of the voyage.	How is Aboriginal music different from early	Using bush instruments accompany your song
Interpersonal I enjoy working with others	As a class create a time line of events that led to the first fleet landing at Port Jackson	Discuss the issues and events that led to the first fleet	Boardgame**	What were the advantages / disadvantages of being a convict	Write and perform a short skit about a soldier arriving on the first fleet	SWOT analysis of class knowledge of the first fleet
Intrapersonal I enjoy working by myself	Describe what the landscape would have been like for the first settlers	Write an argument for sending the first fleet to NSW	Write a n information report on the first fleet	What were the motives behind the British sending the first fleet to NSW	Offer some other solutions to the problems of overcrowding in British gaols	You are a free settler. Write a letter to the newspaper about the lack of farming knowledge in the community