Career · Lesson Plan
Analytical Skills
Analyzing information is a key skill for school, work, and daily life. This lesson uses Bloom’s six thinking processes — knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation — as a systematic way to break down any information or situation. Students then apply the framework to three exercises: reading a chart, analyzing a passage, and solving a logic puzzle (answer key included).
For Teachers
Lesson at a glance
- Topic
- Career
- Grade Level
- Grades 9–12
- Resource Type
- Lesson + Worksheet
- Estimated Time
- 45–60 minutes
- Format
- Lesson + activity
- Materials
- Printable lesson, activity sheet, whiteboard
What Students Learn
Learning objectives
- Name Bloom’s six thinking processes
- Distinguish knowledge, comprehension, and application
- Analyze how information or a situation is structured
- Synthesize new information with prior knowledge
- Evaluate information using critical judgment
Materials
What you’ll need
- Printed copies of the lesson and exercises (one per student)
- Pencils
- Whiteboard or projector for the worked example
Key Terms
Vocabulary
- Analysis
- Breaking information into parts to see how it is structured.
- Knowledge
- The facts you know about information or a situation.
- Comprehension
- What you understand — meanings, reasons, causes.
- Application
- Using what you’ve learned to solve a problem.
- Synthesis
- Combining new information with prior knowledge to form a fuller view.
- Evaluation
- Using critical judgment to assess and compare.
For Teachers
Lesson plan
Estimated time: one 45–60 minute class period.
Lesson sequence
- Introduction (8 min). Introduce analysis as a life and workplace skill; present Bloom’s six thinking processes.
- Worked example (12 min). Apply all six processes to the cartoon example, showing how systematic analysis reveals more than first appears.
- Exercises (25 min). Students work the three exercise sets — a project-cost pie chart, a biographical reading passage, and a logic puzzle — labeling which thinking process each question uses.
- Review (10 min). Check answers with the included key and discuss the open-ended items.
Assessment
Assess the completed exercises against the included answer key (open-ended items judged on reasoning).
Discussion
Discussion questions
- What are Bloom’s six thinking processes?
- How is comprehension different from knowledge?
- When you analyze something, what are you looking for?
- What does it mean to synthesize information?
- Why is evaluation usually the last step?
Printable Lesson & Activity
Analytical Skills — Lesson, Exercises & Answer Key
A printable lesson on Bloom’s thinking processes with three exercise sets (chart, reading passage, logic puzzle) and an answer key.
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