Welcome to the Bloom’s Taxonomy Knowledge Base

I’ve been a huge fan of Bloom’s Taxonomy since I first trained as a teacher.

For me, the taxonomy presents myriad opportunities to create activities, tailor questions and plan lessons that closely meet the needs of learners.

Not to mention its foundational role in so much of the assessment that learners experience throughout their school careers.

Despite it’s age, the taxonomy retains its potency today.

This is because the six levels are about the underlying structures of thought.

How we think.

How we gain mastery.

Even though the curriculum is very different from what it looked like when the taxonomy was first developed, the underlying patterns and structures of cognition haven’t changed.

Bloom’s isn’t a panacea though.

Nor was it ever intended to be.

If you teach a practical subject or a practical area of the curriculum, Bloom’s won’t have as great a relevance (and you should definitely check out the taxonomy of the psychomotor domain instead).

It is a taxonomy of the cognitive domain.

Which does mean it covers a huge chunk of the curriculum, but not all of it.

Here, I’ll share with you over forty articles looking at Bloom’s from a host of different perspectives.

Below, you’ll find dozens of practical strategies and techniques you can put to work in your classroom.

Plus, a keyword list containing ninety core words – fifteen for each level of the taxonomy – that can be an enormous help in your planning and your teaching.

(If you want to grab this straightaway, head here.)

Most of the articles are short, sharp and to the point.

Practical ideas you can quickly adapt and apply.

If you want to go deeper and develop your thinking further, you’ll find blogs and articles clustered together in groups.

Reading a group is like reading a chapter of a book, giving you scope to dig deep into a particular topic.

Finally, you might also like my FREE resource The Bloom Buster. This is a wonderful tool that gives you 450 ready-made examples of tasks and questions built around the ninety keywords.

It’s already been viewed and downloaded over 140,000 times by teachers around the world.

So grab your copy today and start using it to help you with your planning.

Navigate the Bloom’s Taxonomy Knowledge Base

Bloom’s Taxonomy Overview

Knowledge and Comprehension: Levels 1 and 2

Synthesis and Evaluation: Levels 5 and 6

Planning Activities and Products

Using the Taxonomy in Assessment