Active Learning Strategies for Teaching about Religion

 

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Learning Styles index

Intelligences index

Activities Listed by Cognitive Skill
(Bloom's Taxonomy)

The Skills: (click on thinking skill to go directly to related activities)

  • Knowledge: recalling or remembering specific facts, information, or general concepts without necessarily understanding it. Includes behaviors such as describing, listing, identifying...

  • Comprehension: involves understanding learned material. Demonstrating ability to grasp meaning, explain, and restate ideas. Includes behaviors such as discussing, interpreting, explaining...

  • Application: demonstrating ability to use learned material in new situations, to put ideas and concepts to work in solving problems. Includes behaviors such as demonstrating, showing, making use of...

  • Analysis: involves breaking down information into its component parts to see interrelationships and ideas. Related behaviors include differentiating, comparing and contrasting, categorizing...

  • Synthesis: ability to put together separate ideas to form a new whole, establish new relationships. Involves using creativity to compose or design something new.

  • Evaluation: involves judging the value of evidence based on definite criteria. Related behaviors include concluding, criticizing, prioritizing, recommending...

Created by: Laura Ellen Shulman

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Page updated: December 27, 2004