Bloom's Taxonomy Part 5: Evaluating

This is the fifth in a series of six posts dedicated to Bloom’s Taxonomy: Teaching Higher Order Thinking Skills with Interactive Online Content. Four previous posts on remembering, understanding, applying, and analyzing can be viewed here, here, here, and here.

Level Five: Evaluating

This level includes the skills of assessing, recommending, choosing, justifying and rating. Students are asked to critique, to judge, to make recommendations and to justify those recommendations.

Here are two examples of online activities for evaluating:

K-2 Bar Graph Creator

Ask your students to create a bar graph to represent data they have gathered and then draw conclusions from that data.

3-6 Perp Walk

Students listen to suspect interviews and evaluate their answers before choosing the true criminal.


To learn about more activities for evaluating and to discover resources for remembering, understanding, analyzing, evaluating, and creating, sign up for StarrMatica’s free Webinars: Bloom’s Taxonomy for K-2 and Bloom’s Taxonomy for 3-6: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER