1. SOLO LEGO Building
SOLO TAXONOMY Description of Lego Building Stage Self Review
Prestructural:
What stage of building (or understanding) did you
Unconnected information, Student: What is LEGO? What does it look like? achieve with LEGO and explain why in the appropriate
with no organisation spaces below:
“I need help or direction”
Unistructural Student: I know what LEGO looks like, but what does it do?
“I have 1 idea about this
topic”
Multistructural Student: Ok…it’s for building…but it’s still just a pile of
bricks…let’s put the pieces together to make something!
“I have various ideas about
a topic but cannot relate
these ideas together”
Relational
Student: Look, I made a spaceship! I know how the pieces fit
“I can find full relationships together and I have a relational understanding of LEGO. I
and connections between probably still need the instructions though.
various ideas in a topic”
Extended Abstract
Student: I have taken what I know about putting LEGO together
I go beyond the subject and to make something new without instructions!
link my understanding to
other concepts
2. SOLO LEGO Building
SOLO Taxonomy = TheStructure of Observed
Learning Outcomes
What is SOLO taxonomy?
It is a common language of learning for both STUDENTS and TEACHERS which allows
both to understand the DEPTH of student learning
Prestructural to extended Abstract
Surface to deep learning
Simple to complex understanding