Bloom's Revised Taxonomy: (2) Understanding

Understanding
Explaining ideas or concepts
Interpreting, summarising, paraphrasing, classifying, explaining, exemplifying, comparing, explaining.

(Restate, Identify, Discuss, Retell, Research, Annotate, Translate, Give examples of, Paraphrase, Reorganise, Associate,  Describe, Report, Recognise, Review, Observe, Outline, Account for, Interpret, Give main idea, Estimate, Define)

The learner grasps the meaning of information by interpreting and translating what has been learned.

Can you explain ideas or concepts?

Product Included: Recitation, Summary, Collection, Explanation, Show and tell, Example, Quiz, List, Label, Outline.

Potential Activities and Products:

• Write in your own words…
• Cut out, or draw pictures to illustrate a particular event in the story.
• Report to the class…
• Illustrate what you think the main idea may have been.
• Make a cartoon strip showing the sequence of events in the story.
• Write and perform a play based on the story.
• Write a brief outline to explain this story to someone else
• Explain why the character solved the problem in this particular way
• Write a summary report of the event.
• Prepare a flow chart to illustrate the sequence of events.
• Make a colouring book.
• Paraphrase this chapter in the book.
• Retell in your own words.
• Outline the main points.

Teacher Roles

Demonstrates, Listens, Questions, Compares, Contrasts, Examines.

Student Roles

Explains, Describes, Outlines, Restates, Translates, Demonstrates, Interprets, Active participant.

Questions:

Can you explain why…?

Can you write in your own words?

How would you explain…?

Can you write a brief outline...?

What do you think could have happened next...?

Who do you think...?

What was the main idea...?

Can you clarify…?

Can you illustrate…?

Does everyone act in the way that …….. does? (Pohl, Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn, p. 12)

Sample Unit:
Travel

How do you get from school to home? Explain the method of travel and draw a map. Write a play about a form of modern transport. Explain how you felt the first time you rode a bicycle. Make your desk into a form of transport. 

Space

Make your desk into a spaceship, Make an astronaut for a puppet play.  Use it to tell what an astronaut does.  Make a model of the planets in our solar system.