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Examples, key words (verbs), and
technologies for learning (activities)
Category (Bloom’s Taxonomy)

Examples: Recite a policy.
Quote prices from memory to a
customer. Recite the safety
Remembering: Recall or rules.
retrieve previous learned
information. Key Words: defines, describes,

identifies, knows, labels, lists,
(Command Term)
matches, names, outlines,
recalls, recognizes, reproduces,
SELECT
selects, states

LIST
Technologies: book marking,
flash cards, rote learning based
on repetition, reading

Examples: Rewrite the
principles of test writing. Explain
Understanding: in one's own words the steps for
Comprehending the meaning, performing a complex task.
translation, interpolation, and Translate an equation into a
interpretation of instructions computer spreadsheet.
and problems. State a
problem in one's own words. Key Words: comprehends,

converts, defends,
(Command Term) distinguishes, estimates,

explains, extends, generalizes,
EXAMINE
gives an example, infers,
interprets, paraphrases,
IDENTIFY
predicts, rewrites, summarizes,
translates
INTERPRET

Technologies: create an
SUMMARIZE
analogy, participating
in cooperative learning, taking
notes, storytelling, Internet
search

Applying: Use a concept in a Examples: Use a manual to
new situation or unprompted calculate an employee's
use of an abstraction. Applies vacation time. Apply laws of
what was learned in the