Levels of Questions with Bloom's Taxonomy

(Image Credits)

Click a level of the pyramid to see questions and question prompts about the photograph that are appropriate to that level of thinking.

Level 1. Knowledge

• When was this picture taken?
• Where was this picture taken?
  

Question cues: List, define, tell, label

Level 2. Comprehension

• What is happening in this picture?
• Why are these boys dressed like this?
  

Question cues: Describe, name, identify, discuss

Level 3. Application

• How would you describe the photograph to others?
• What caption would you write for this photograph (say, in a newspaper)?
  

Question cues: Modify, solve, change, explain

• Why are these boys here and not in school?
• What do you know about their lives based on this photo?
  

Question cues: Analyze, separate, compare, contrast

• What might these boys say about their work in an interview setting?
• What might they say about their future?
  

Question cues: Create, construct, plan, role-play

• What is the significance of this photo for the time period depicted?
• Compare this photo with one of three boys from today of the same age. How are their lives similar? How are they different?
  

Question cues: Give opinion, criticize, discriminate, summarize

Photo Credits

The photograph "Coal Breaker Boys" was taken in Kingston, Pennsylvania, between 1890 and 1910. It is available in the American Memory Collection Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920, from the Library of Congress.