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Here's another poster to help get you thinking about how you can apply Bloom's higher-order thinking skills in your classroom. This poster shows the segments of an orange with each segment relating to a thinking skill and some helpful verbs to serve as prompts.

While there are many more verbs that we could have added, we felt that including just seven in each segment would make them easier to remember (For more information, see Miller's paper "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information."

We thought it would be interesting to depict the verbs in a circular form as opposed to a hierarchical list, given that these skills don't often occur in isolation and are interconnected. We went through several concepts including a wheel, a pie, and an apple, but somehow the orange seemed to work best when we put everything together.

For those of you who prefer it, we've also created a grayscale version of the poster. And if for some reason you're against "oranges" and prefer lists, you can just download the Blooming Verb List. You should be able to glue the template onto a 3" x 5" index card or colored card stock, making it easy to carry around.

Let us know what you think - you know we're always listening! ;-)

Download the pdf's here:

• Blooming Orange - Bloom's Taxonomy Helpful Verbs Poster (Color)
  
• Blooming Orange - Bloom's Taxonomy Helpful Verbs Poster (Grayscale)
• Blooming Verbs List

The Blooming Orange poster by Learning Today is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.