WHITE HAT® 

KNOWLEDGE (Bloom)

REMEMBERING (Revised Bloom)

FACTS

INFORMATION

DATA

RESEARCH

Who, What, When, Where?

What do you know about …?

What are the facts about … ?

What do you need or want to know about …?

Where might you go to find out about …?

Red HAT® 

EVALUATION (Bloom) EVALUATING (Revised Bloom)     

FEELINGS

HUNCHES

EMOTIONS

INTUITION

What are your feelings now?

Did your feelings change?   How?

Which way do you like best based on your feelings?

What prejudices are present? 

What is your hunch about... 

What is your gut feeling about …?

What does your intuition tell you?

BLACK HAT ® 

ANALYSIS (Bloom) ANALYZING (Revised Bloom)      CAUTION                                       CAREFUL                  DANGER               WISDOM                                  RISKS                        WEAKNESSES

What should you be cautious about …

What words of wisdom come from this?   

Of what might you be careful?

What are the consequences of…

What were the difficulties of... 

Why won't / didn't this work?  

What did you dislike about... 

What are the risks of …

What are some Uh-Ohs?

GREEN HAT® -

SYNTHESIS (Bloom)   CREATING (Revised Bloom) CREATIVITY     IMAGINATION                       NEW IDEAS            POSSIBILITIES 

What if ... ?

Can you create other ways to do this? 

How would you solve the problem?
What new ideas can you think of? 

What other possibilities are there?

Express yourself through literature, poetry, drama, media etc. 

SCAMPER:  Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to Other Uses, Eliminate, Reverse                

BLUE HAT® -

comprehension  (Bloom) UNDERSTANDING (Revised Bloom)   APPLICATION, Applying (Bloom) Metacognition  Process                                          big ideas                                    MAIN IDEA                          conclude/Summarize     LIST                                                                                 

Why?                                  

List.  Journal.                                            Tell how you got your answer.  Sequence the events.                 Explain your thinking?             Summarize.                                   What is your conclusion?
What next?                                   Action plan?                                 What is the main idea?                What are the big ideas?                What was the problem; how was the  problem solved?                Look from another perspective.                                Look (think) as if you were in the sky.

YELLOW HAT®

ANALYSIS,    (Bloom)
ANALYZING (Revised Bloom)       BENEFITS                               GOOD                              POSITIVES                            VALUE                         STRENGTHS

What are the benefits of  …?

What is good about …

What is a positive outcome of…

What is the value of...

Can this be made to work?  Explain.

What did you like about… ?