Bloom's Taxonomy

Q: In your own words illustrate 5 reasons Bloom's taxonomy could be useful to the preparations of your content area learning objectives, activities, and plan assessments.

My content area is physical and health education. The are countless reasons Bloom's taxonomy could be useful. I am going to talk about 5 in no particular order.
1. In order to understand exercise, and realize it importance you must understand the muscles of the body, and furthermore the movements the muscles make. As a physical educator I can teach my student not only the exercises, and muscles but also the movements and why each muscle works. After they have the KNOWLEDGE I can let them be on there own to apply that knowledge during class.

2. In a taxonomy you cant know move up to the next level without knowing the one before it. That being said I understand that i must give my students the knowledge before they can comprehend it or apply it. Therefore in a unit plan the first set of lessons would aim towards knowledge and move up with time towards evaluation.

3. In a physical education class where a sport is being played it is imperative that the students have knowledge and comprehension of that sport. Furthermore to be a master of the sport you must be able to analyze the sport, and formulate game plans. This would go towards the assessment of my students. Those who can analyze and synthesize will receive more points then those who cannot.

4/5. When generating lesson plans my objects for the lesson will be set towards a particular level of Bloom's taxonomy. If i am teaching and want students to have the knowledge and comprehension the lesson objective would be much different than if i wanted the students to apply knowledge, or analyze situations. Furthermore the activities that i plan for the class will differ greatly depending of which level of Bloom's taxonomy my lesson is geared towards.