Bloom's Taxonomy and Scavenger Hunts

Bloom's Taxonomy is a classification system of learning objectives in the field of education. It's main purpose is to help educators figure out what level of vigor they are requiring students to use for the completion of school work. Also to ensure that students have using high order think whenever possible, because just having the knowledge of something doesn't help a student to become fluent in the area. The skills in the cognitive domain of Bloom's Taxonomy are 1) Knowledge 2) Comprehension 3) Application 4) Analysis 5) Synthesis and 6) Evaluation . They range from lowest order processes to highest. Each level has key words associated with them, for example knowledge: list, find, name, state etc. Having key words that are associated with each level is helpful to teachers when constructing test questions, essays, and projects because using the right words depends on what outcome you expect for your students.
I believe that Bloom's Taxonomy is necessary for all teachers to use. It is a great way to ensure that you measure learning correctly according to your goals and the curriculum's goals. I also think that using Bloom's Taxonomy with technology is a great way to ensure student progress and the new verbs associated with each level make it easier for educator to apply the objectives. The new verbs are 1) Remembering 2) Understanding 3) Applying 4) Analysing 5) Evaluating and 6) Creating. It removes a lot of confusion to what each verb means.
In class we participated in a couple of scavenger hunts, i believe conducting them in the classroom is a great way to boost student participation. They are fun, can be challenging and adaptable to all subjects. Students can be given scavenger hunts or create they're own for their classmates. Competition can be introduced or the teacher may feel that it is better not to include it. Competition can make student learning/participation more desirable because there is often a reward following. The teacher may break the class into teams and have them race to answer the most questions correctly or individually challenge them to beat there best score. The Internet can provide information that students to know off hand and encourages them to use the web to search for answers. Infusing technology is always a plus in the classroom, as long as you do it right. Scavenger hunts are easy for teachers/students to create and a great way for teachers to introduce new subjects, they can be used in all subjects/ grade levels and follow bloom's knowledge or remembering level but teachers can make them more difficult to reach high order thinking.