The Commonwealth Games 2010New Delhi

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.

Introduction

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.

Introduction

Contents

Title Page Introduction Blooms Taxonomy

Activities

Level One - Remembering Level Two - Understanding Level Three - Applying Level Four - Analysing Level Five - Evaluating Level Six - Creating

Bloom’s Taxonomy

- Recognising - Listing- Describing - Identifying- Retrieving - Naming- Locating - Finding

Can you recall information?

Remembering

Verbal/Linguistic

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.

OR Do an A-Z of words about the

Commonwealth Games.

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.

Logical/Mathematical

Draw some Commonwealth Games symbols and describe what they mean.

OR

Make a detailed model of the Commonwealth Games icon.

Visual/Spatial

Draw some Commonwealth Games symbols and describe what they mean.

OR

Make a detailed model of the Commonwealth Games icon.

Bodily/Kinaesthetic

Suggest music that would best be used during the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony. Write your ideas down in complete sentences.

Musical/Rhythmical

With a friend, present a 5min lesson to the class about a lesser known Commonwealth Games event.

Interpersonal (people smart)

Make a mind map of everything you already know about the Commonwealth Games.

Intrapersonal (self smart)

List different plants used by people in the Commonwealth Games.

Naturalist

- Interpreting - Exemplifying- Summarising - Inferring- Paraphrasing - Classifying- Comparing - Explaining

Can you explain ideas or concepts?

Understanding

Write a few paragraphs explaining the meaning of the Commonwealth Games.

Verbal/Linguistic

Make a timeline to show where the Commonwealth Games has been hosted. Has any city hosted the Commonwealth Games more than once?

Logical/Mathematical

Discuss and draw what a Commonwealth Games medal ceremony is and why they do them.

Visual/Spatial

With a partner, role-play or mime winning a Commonwealth Games event.

Bodily/Kinaesthetic

With a partner, role-play or mime winning a Commonwealth Games event.

Musical/Rhythmical

With a partner, role-play or mime winning a Commonwealth Games event.

Interpersonal (people smart)

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.

Intrapersonal (self smart)

Put in plain words what plants different athletes use and how they help the athletes.

Naturalist

- Implementing - Carrying out- Using - Executing

Can you use the information in another familiar situation?

Applying

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.

Verbal/Linguistic

Design a word search using Commonwealth Games keywords.

Logical/Mathematical

Invent a new training regime for a top athlete.

Visual/Spatial

Make a puppet of a famous NZ athlete. Then dramatically illustrate your puppet winning Gold.

Bodily/Kinaesthetic

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.

Musical/Rhythmical

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.

Interpersonal (people smart)

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.

Intrapersonal (self smart)

Design an intricate medal using natural materials.

Naturalist

- Comparing - Organising- Deconstructing - Attributing- Outlining - Finding- Structuring - Integrating

Can you break information into parts to explore understandings

and relationships?

Analysing

Design a questionnaire to ask a top athlete about how to prepare for the Commonwealth Games.

Verbal/Linguistic

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).

Logical/Mathematical

Make a diorama of a Commonwealth game event.

OR Make a diorama of a medal ceremony.

Visual/Spatial

Create an Commonwealth Games dance using ideas you have learnt during this topic.

Bodily/Kinaesthetic

Group instruments used by various National Anthems into categories.

Musical/Rhythmical

Make a Commonwealth Games themed jigsaw puzzle.

Interpersonal

Imagine you have attended the Commonwealth Games. Write 5 diary entries explaining what it was like. Remember to use your senses.

Intrapersonal

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?

Naturalist

- Checking - Hypothesising- Critiquing - Experimenting- Judging - Testing- Detecting - Monitoring Can you justify a decision or course of

action?

Evaluating

List recommendations (PMI) to the CGF whether New Delhi was a great host city. Write you ideas in a letter.

Verbal/Linguistic

What would be the good points and bad points of having the Commonwealth Games every year?

Logical/Mathematical

Rank five Commonwealth Games photos and justify your choices.

Visual/Spatial

In groups role play the Commonwealth Games motto.

Bodily/Kinaesthetic

Write and perform a song about the special skills needed to be a top athlete.

Musical/Rhythmical

Debate in small groups if performance enhancing drugs should be banned.

OR

Debate in small groups if New Delhi has been a good host city.

Interpersonal (people smart)

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.

Intrapersonal (self smart)

What can we learn from the Commonwealth Games to help us protect our planet.

Naturalist

- Designing - Constructing- Planning - Producing- Inventing - Devising- Making Can you generate new products, ideas,

or ways of viewing things?

Creating

Write your own Commonwealth Games story.

Verbal/Linguistic

Write an acoustic poem using the word Commonwealth.

OR

List and then combine the attributes of a javelin and a TV camera.

Logical/Mathematical

Design a new mascot for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Visual/Spatial

Create or compose a jingle/cheer/chant so that New Zealanders can support their top athletes.

Bodily/Kinaesthetic

Create or compose a jingle/cheer/chant so that New Zealanders can support their top athletes.

Musical/Rhythmical

Create or compose a jingle/cheer/chant so that New Zealanders can support their top athletes.

Interpersonal (people smart)

Create a completely new Olympic event and present your ideas to the class.

Intrapersonal (self smart)

Create and illustrate a new eco-friendly stadium. Justify your ideas.

Naturalist