Transcript Interpersonal (people smart)

Thinking Skills
Welcome to this E-Book about the Commonwealth
Games. This book has been created to allow you to
choose your own learning activities to help you
discover more about the Games.
The activities in this book have been designed using
Bloom’s Taxonomy of thinking. Secondly, the tasks
have been grouped by learning style.
You are encouraged to complete one activity from
each level of Bloom’s using a different learning
style for each.
You are expected to complete each task to a high standard
using all of your editing and publishing skills.
You have been given the chance to choose how you wish to
learn about the Games. It is up to you to show that you have
the initiative to take up this challenge.
At the end of each task, you will need to present it to the class
so that each member can also learn from your experience.
Please keep a record of your tasks on the evaluation form.
Good Luck and Booyah!!
Note: most resources can be found in the ‘learning cave’ or in
our local.
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Title Page
Introduction
Blooms Taxonomy
Activities
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Level
Level
Level
Level
Level
Level
One - Remembering
Two - Understanding
Three - Applying
Four - Analysing
Five - Evaluating
Six - Creating
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Recognising
Describing
Retrieving
Locating
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Listing
Identifying
Naming
Finding
Can you recall information?
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Interview 5 adults about what it is that
makes the Commonwealth Games so
enjoyable to watch. You will need to create
3 questions before interviewing each adult.
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Do an A-Z of words about the
Commonwealth Games.
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Survey family and friends to find out what
sport they prefer to watch during the
Commonwealth Games. Present your results
in a table and bar graph.
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Draw some Commonwealth Games symbols
and describe what they mean.
OR
Make a detailed model of the Commonwealth
Games icon.
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Draw some Commonwealth Games symbols
and describe what they mean.
OR
Make a detailed model of the Commonwealth
Games icon.
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Suggest music that would best be used
during the Commonwealth Games opening
ceremony. Write your ideas down in complete
sentences.
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With a friend, present a 5min lesson to the
class about a lesser known Commonwealth
Games event.
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Make a mind map of everything you already
know about the Commonwealth Games.
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List different plants used by people in the
Commonwealth Games.
- Interpreting
- Summarising
- Paraphrasing
- Comparing
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Exemplifying
Inferring
Classifying
Explaining
Can you explain ideas or concepts?
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Write a few paragraphs explaining the
meaning of the Commonwealth Games.
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Make a timeline to show where the
Commonwealth Games has been hosted. Has
any city hosted the Commonwealth Games
more than once?
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Discuss and draw what a Commonwealth
Games medal ceremony is and why they do
them.
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With a partner, role-play or mime winning a
Commonwealth Games event.
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With a partner, role-play or mime winning a
Commonwealth Games event.
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With a partner, role-play or mime winning a
Commonwealth Games event.
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The Commonwealth Games have been
affected by athletes using performance
enhancing drugs. Describe in detail what
drugs they take and what happens if they get
caught.
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Put in plain words what plants different
athletes use and how they help the athletes.
- Implementing
- Using
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- Carrying out
- Executing
Can you use the information in another
familiar situation?
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Design a simple instructional book on how to
win Gold medal at any Commonwealth Games
event.
OR
Create a tourist brochure to persuade people
to visit Delhi or India.
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Design a word search using Commonwealth
Games keywords.
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Invent a new training regime for a top athlete.
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Make a puppet of a famous NZ athlete. Then
dramatically illustrate your puppet winning
Gold.
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Use natural objects to design and play a
Commonwealth Games song or National
Anthem. Use an instrument to perform a song
worthy of being used at the closing
ceremony.
OR
Use an instrument to perform a song worthy
of being used at the closing ceremony.
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How might a long jumper use some or all of
the following to leap 10 metres: a book,
some string, a radio and a bottle?
OR
Write a poem about your favourite event.
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How might a long jumper use some or all of
the following to leap 10 metres: a book,
some string, a radio and a bottle?
OR
Write a poem about your favourite event.
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Design an intricate medal using natural
materials.
- Comparing
- Organising
- Deconstructing
- Attributing
- Outlining
- Finding
- Structuring
- Integrating
 Can you break information into parts to
explore understandings and
relationships?
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Design a questionnaire to ask a top athlete
about how to prepare for the Commonwealth
Games.
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Use a Venn Diagram to compare 2 different
types of athletes. OR use a Venn Diagram to
compare two different host cities (e.g.
Melbourne and New Delhi).
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Make a diorama of a Commonwealth game
event.
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Make a diorama of a medal ceremony.
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Create an Commonwealth Games dance using
ideas you have learnt during this topic.
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Group instruments used by various National
Anthems into categories.
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Make a Commonwealth Games themed jigsaw
puzzle.
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Imagine you have attended the
Commonwealth Games. Write 5 diary entries
explaining what it was like. Remember to use
your senses.
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List the ingredients of a meal the a Marathon
runner might eat the night before his/her
race. Also, why did you choose this meal?
- Checking
- Hypothesising
- Critiquing
- Experimenting
- Judging
- Testing
- Detecting
- Monitoring
 Can you justify a decision or course of action?
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List recommendations (PMI) to the CGF
whether New Delhi was a great host city.
Write you ideas in a letter.
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What would be the good points and bad
points of having the Commonwealth Games
every year?
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Rank five Commonwealth Games photos and
justify your choices.
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In groups role play the Commonwealth
Games motto.
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Write and perform a song about the special
skills needed to be a top athlete.
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Debate in small groups if performance
enhancing drugs should be banned.
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Debate in small groups if New Delhi has been
a good host city.
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What would it be like if we didn’t have the
Commonwealth Games? Write a few
paragraphs explaining how it would be and
feel. Make sure you talk about it and plan
before you write.
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What can we learn from the Commonwealth
Games to help us protect our planet.
- Designing
- Constructing
- Planning
- Producing
- Inventing
- Devising
- Making
 Can you generate new products, ideas, or
ways of viewing things?
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Write your own Commonwealth Games story.
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Write an acoustic poem using the word
Commonwealth.
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List and then combine the attributes of a
javelin and a TV camera.
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Design a new mascot for the 2014
Commonwealth Games.
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Create or compose a jingle/cheer/chant so
that New Zealanders can support their top
athletes.
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Create or compose a jingle/cheer/chant so
that New Zealanders can support their top
athletes.
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Create or compose a jingle/cheer/chant so
that New Zealanders can support their top
athletes.
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Create a completely new Olympic event and
present your ideas to the class.
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Create and illustrate a new eco-friendly
stadium. Justify your ideas.