Task 1

Promoting Scientific Thinking

Salama Majid Sultan

Practicum 3b
Antoinette Wiseman
October 22, 2018
Promoting Scientific Thinking

TP Task 1 – Promoting Scientific Thinking

Explain Bloom's Taxonomy contains six sub-stages, the first stage is (remember): in
how this stage the students are expected to retrieve information from memory. The
questionin
second stage is (understand): Students in this stage are building new links in
g relates
to Bloom’s their minds. Where they remember previous things and adjust them. The third
taxonomy stage is (apply): This is through the application of something. The fourth
and stage is (analyze) :Analyze the situation of its basic elements. The fifth stage
student
is (evaluate): Doing and evaluation through which all sources of information
learning.
to assess the quality. The sixth stage is (create): Learners in this area

reorganize information in different ways.

All of this stages are helps to ask thinking questions to the students, for

example: in remembering stage we could ask what is..? in understanding

stage How would you say…? In applying stage what would happen if….? in

analyzing stage who do you think…..? in evaluating stage what would

happen if….? in creating stage how many ways can you…..?

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Question(s) asked by the Was
Engagement teacher thinking
time How did the students’
Activity given?
respond?
(& subject & LO) If yes,
how
much?
Subject: Math The question is from a real-life
LO: Know that application, so the students get
each successive Where have you seen the 5 thinking about number five in
number refers to a number 5 before? seconds real life to answer the
quantity that is questions that the teacher
one larger. asked. For example, on the
students said my brother’s
cake was a number five cake.

Subject: Math How can you use 10 The question is using for
LO: - Solve connecting cubes to show seconds making connections and
problems by 2? applying by using a cubes, so
using the strategy the students show their
make a model. understanding to the teacher by
applying.

Some of the students with the

Can we see the work of 13 high ability say yes but the
Subject: Science engineers around us? seconds students with the low ability
LO: To ask say no because some of them
questions to they don’t know that engineers
understand a is, but after they saw a pictures
problem. of the engineers they
understand and they explain
that the engineers are the
people who build a buildings,
towers, and bridges.

Subject: Math What classroom objects 10 The students kept seeing

LO: Identify and are shaped like a seconds around the classroom and find
name two- rectangle? out the objects are shaped like
dimensional a rectangle, and they said:
shapes, including book, rug, and window.
rectangles.