Thinking skills - Key stage 3

All science teachers should plan for the development of thinking skills through their science teaching. To ensure that pupils develop and practise higher level thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis and evaluation, teachers need to plan carefully the questions they will ask and the activities they will do.

Bloom's taxonomy is one way of classifying thinking skills into a hierarchy. Download a table showing the levels of Bloom's taxonomy and possible questions for each level on the topic of gravity: Bloom's taxonomy - gravity (word)

As a department, you can develop similar grids for other topics to ensure all teachers have access to a bank of questions at the higher levels to use with their classes.