We have been exploring the events that led to the Scottish Wars of Independence and today, we answered some questions about the events that required us to think in lots of different ways.

We learned that these different ways of thinking are:

• Remembering
• Understanding
• Applying
• Analysing
• Evaluating
• Creating

In our groups we worked together to answer questions then we had to decide which of the above higher order thinking (HOT) skills we were using to come up with our answers:

There was lots of discussion going on and Mrs McLean was super impressed with our ability to identify the HOT skills being used.

We also evaluated the lesson at the end (using our HOT skills) and were able to justify our responses.

Kai said he really enjoyed the lesson because it was active and he liked the questions and the way they were set out.

Caius felt that there was too much moving around and said he preferred to stay at one desk during lessons.

Liam enjoyed learning about the different HOT skills.

Great work P6!