Collaborate Using Higher Order Thinking

Collaborating Using Bloom's Revised Taxonomy

Higher Order Thinking

Analyzing: Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships. 

Comparing, organizing, deconstruction, interrogating, finding.

 

Creating: Generating ideas, products or ways of viewing things.

Designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.

 

 

1. Work in a group of 3 or 4 with the list of words you are given. The words may be listed on notecards, small pieces of paper, or Smart Notebook software.

2. Group the words from our list. Use both electronic and print resources to help identify the people listed. There is no right or wrong way to group the words as long as there are at least 2 words in each group and at least 3 groups.

3. Once all words are grouped, you will need to add labels to each group. Labels can be single words or short phrases.

4. Groups should share their groups and labels with each other, and explain reasoning for groups and labels.

5. After creating and labeling groups, complete the List Group Label Civil War forum response on the Moodle.

Use the following words, and/or add your own. Be sure to copy each word/phrase to a separate notecard or text box so that you can manipulate each into a group:

Abraham Lincoln
Dred Scott
General Robert E. Lee
Mary Schwandt
Henry Sibley
General Ulyssis S Grant
Harriet Tubman
Clara Barton
soldier
Frederick Douglass
Jefferson Davis
Robert Hickmam
Taoyateduta
missionary
Stonewall Jackson
Annie Davis
settler
Dakota
Sojourner Truth
Charley Goddard
Eliza Winston

Response:
What are the labels of your groups? Describe a discussion your group had while doing this activity. Include any disagreements or barriers you encountered while grouping or labeling and how you came to consensus. What have you learned about the Civil War through this activity?
This explanation should be 5-10 sentences.

 

This activity was so successful.  The students all grouped the individuals listed in new and creative ways.  They were so busy talking and researching, I swear, some of them forgot it was an assignment. Thanks to my colleague Kim Christensen for the writing of this strategy into our Moodle course.