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Categories of Learning Activities


Chart 1: Categories of Learning Activities Designed to Promote Valuing

Desired Outcomes

Acquisition or improvement of a particular behavior or ability which deals with values Development or improvement of a product that has to do with one's own or another's values
Participation in a value-related experience
explaining one's own value position charts attending a concert, lecture, film, or play
justifying one's own value position oral and written reports interviewing people about values
identifying value indicators films playing a values-simulation game
offering a reasoned inference about values murals conducting a values survey
comparing and contrasting the values of two or more others polls testing out the consequences of a decision
asking value-oriented questions surveys role playing a value incident or value dilemma
discussing value dilemmas poems discussion of feelings
suggesting alternatives open to 
individuals placed in situations 
where their values conflict
songs participating in a demonstration
identifying possible consequences of various alternatives previously identified photographs


Chart 2: Types of Learning Activities Categorized by Function

Intake Organizational Demonstrative Expressive

 
 
 

reading about

 observing

 interviewing

 listening to

 touching

 surveying

 participating in


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Value judgments, incidents, dilemmas, & experiences

feelings

charting

 outlining

 diagramming

 note taking

 asking questions about

 answering questions about

 formulating questions about

 summarizing

 time-lining

 drawing

 cartooning

 sketching


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Information about values & feelings

role-playing

 discussing

 explaining

 inferring

 justifying

 identifying

 listing

 grouping

 labeling

 summarizing

 generalizing

 analyzing

 comparing

 contrasting

 formulating conclusions about

 simulating

 testing


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

values

values, judgments, incidents & dilemmas

feelings

composing songs & poems about

 writing about

 role-playing

 miming

 singing

 dancing

 drawing

 painting

 sketching

 cartooning

 building

 imagining

 predicting

 hypothesizing about

 proposing

 modeling

 simulating


 
 
 
 

values

value judgments, incidents, & dilemmas

valued alternatives

consequences

consequences of consequences


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