Verbal-Linguistic
Intelligence (Word
Smart)
Description: Verbal-linguistic students love
words and use them as a primary way of thinking and solving problems. They
are good writers, speakers, or both. They use words to persuade, argue,
entertain, and/or teach.
Learning
Activities and Project Ideas:
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Completing crossword puzzles with vocabulary words.
__ Playing
games like Scrabble, Scrabble Junior, or Boggle.
__ Writing
short stories for a classroom newsletter.
__ Writing
feature articles for the school newspaper.
__ Writing
a letter to the editor in response to articles.
__ Writing
to state representatives about local issues.
__ Using
digital resources such as electronic libraries, desktop publishing, word
games, and word processing.
__ Creating
poems for a class poetry book.
__ Entering
their original poems in a poetry contest.
__
Listening to a storyteller.
__ Studying
the habits of good speakers.
__ Telling
a story to the class.
__
Participating in debates.
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Logical-Mathematical
Intelligence (Math Smart)
Description: Logical-mathematical students
enjoy working with numbers. They can easily interpret data and analyze
abstract patterns. They have a well-developed ability to reason and are good
at chess and computer programming. They think in terms of cause and effect.
Learning
Activities and Project Ideas:
__ Playing
math games like dominoes, chess,
checkers, and Monopoly.
__
Searching for patterns in the classroom, school, outdoors, and home.
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Conducting experiments to demonstrate science concepts.
__ Using
math and science software such as Math Blaster, which reinforces math skills,
or King's Rule, a logic game.
__ Using
science tool kits for science programs.
__
Designing alphabetic and numeric codes.
__ Making
up analogies.
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Spatial
Intelligence (Picture
Smart)
Description: Students strong in spatial
intelligence think and process information in pictures and images. They have
excellent visual receptive skills and excellent fine motor skills. Students
with this intelligence use their eyes and hands to make artistic or
creatively designed projects. They can build with Legos, read maps, and put
together 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles.
Learning
Activities and Project Ideas:
__ Taking photographs for
assignments and classroom newsletters.
__ Taking
photographs for the school yearbook, school newsletter, or science
assignments.
__ Using
clay or play dough to make objects or represent concepts from content-area
lessons.
__ Using
pictorial models such as flow charts, visual maps, Venn diagrams, and
timelines to connect new material to known information.
__ Taking
notes using concept mapping, mind mapping, and clustering.
__ Using
puppets to act out and reinforce concepts learned in class.
__ Using
maps to study geographical locations discussed in class.
__ Illustrating
poems for the class poetry book by drawing or using computer software.
__ Using
virtual-reality system software.
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Musical
Intelligence (Music
Smart)
Description: Musical students think, feel,
and process information primarily through sound. They have a superior ability
to perceive, compose, and/or perform music. Musically smart people constantly
hear musical notes in their head.
Learning
Activities and Project Ideas:
__ Writing
their own songs and music about content-area topics.
__ Putting
original poems to music, and then performing them for the class.
__Setting a
poem to music, and then performing it for the class.
__
Incorporating a poem they have written with a melody they already know.
__
Listening to music from different historical periods.
__ Tape
recording a poem over "appropriate" background music (i.e., soft
music if describing a kitten, loud music if they are mad about pollution).
__ Using
rhythm and clapping to memorize math facts and other content-area
information.
__
Listening to CDs that teach concepts like the alphabet, parts of speech, and
states and capitals
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Bodily-Kinesthetic (Body
Smart)
Description: Bodily-kinesthetic students are
highly aware of the world through touch and movement. There is a special
harmony between their bodies and their minds. They can control their bodies
with grace, expertise, and athleticism.
Learning
Activities and Project Ideas:
__ Creating
costumes for role-playing, skits, or simulations.
__
Performing skits or acting out scenes from books or key historical events.
__
Designing props for plays and skits.
__ Playing
games like Twister and Simon Says.
__ Using
charades to act out characters in a book, vocabulary words, animals, or other
content-area topics.
__
Participating in scavenger hunts, searching for items related to a theme or
unit.
__ Acting
out concepts. For example, for the solar system, "student planets"
circle around a "student sun." Students line up appropriately to
demonstrate events in a history timeline.
__
Participating in movement breaks during the day.
__ Building
objects using blocks, cubes, or Legos to represent concepts from content-area
lessons.
__ Using
electronic motion-simulation games and hands-on construction kits that
interface with computers.
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Interpersonal (People
Smart)
Description: Students strong in interpersonal
intelligence have a natural ability to interact with, relate to, and get
along with others effectively. They are good leaders. They use their insights
about others to negotiate, persuade, and obtain information. They like to
interact with others and usually have lots of friends.
Learning
Activities and Project Ideas:
__ Working
in cooperative groups to design and complete projects.
__ Working
in pairs to learn math facts.
__
Interviewing people with knowledge about content-area topics (such as a
veteran to learn about World War II, a lab technician to learn about life
science, or a politician to understand the election process).
__ Tutoring
younger students or classmates.
__ Using
puppets to put on a puppet show.
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Intrapersonal
Intelligence (Self
Smart)
Description: People with a strong
intrapersonal intelligence have a deep awareness of their feelings, ideas,
and goals. Students with this intelligence usually need time alone to process
and create.
Learning
Activities and Project Ideas:
__ Writing
reflective papers on content-area topics.
__ Writing
essays from the perspective of historical figures, such as Civil War soldiers
or suffragettes.
__ Writing
a literary autobiography, reflecting on their reading life.
__ Writing
goals for the future and planning ways to achieve them.
__ Using
software that allows them to work alone, such as Decisions, Decisions, a
personal choice software, or the Perfect Career, a career choice software.
__ Keeping
journals or logs throughout the year.
__ Making a
scrapbook for their poems, papers, and reflections.
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Naturalistic
Intelligence (Nature
Smart)
Description: This intelligence refers to a
person's natural interest in the environment. These people enjoy being in
nature and want to protect it from pollution. Students with strong
naturalistic intelligence easily recognize and categorize plants, animals,
and rocks.
__ Caring
for classroom plants.
__ Caring
for classroom pets.
__ Sorting
and classifying natural objects, such as leaves and rocks.
__
Researching animal habitats.
__
Observing natural surroundings.
__
Organizing or participating in park/playground clean-ups, recycling drives,
and beautification projects.
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Multiple intelligences
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Possible activities in classroom related to the multiple intelligence.
Saturday, June 15, 2013
Involve students in identifying their multiple
intelligences by inviting them to complete a test. They will find it
exciting to see the areas they are strongest in, and to understand how these
might be affecting their schoolwork.
Multiple Intelligences test http://printables.scholastic.com/printables/f.jsp?id=36447
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Nobody Learn in the Same way....Let´s Know about multiple intelligences
1. Linguistic Intelligence: the capacity to use
language to express what's on your mind and to understand other people. Any
kind of writer, orator, speaker, lawyer, or other person for whom language is
an important stock in trade has great linguistic intelligence.
2. Logical/Mathematical Intelligence: the
capacity to understand the underlying principles of some kind of causal system,
the way a scientist or a logician does; or to manipulate numbers, quantities,
and operations, the way a mathematician does.
3. Musical Rhythmic Intelligence: the capacity
to think in music; to be able to hear patterns, recognize them, and perhaps
manipulate them. People who have strong musical intelligence don't just
remember music easily, they can't get it out of their minds, it's so
omnipresent.
4. Bodily/Kinesthetic Intelligence: the
capacity to use your whole body or parts of your body (your hands, your
fingers, your arms) to solve a problem, make something, or put on some kind of
production. The most evident examples are people in athletics or the performing
arts, particularly dancing or acting.
5. Spatial Intelligence: the ability to
represent the spatial world internally in your mind -- the way a sailor or
airplane pilot navigates the large spatial world, or the way a chess player or
sculptor represents a more circumscribed spatial world. Spatial intelligence
can be used in the arts or in the sciences.
6. Naturalist Intelligence: the ability to
discriminate among living things (plants, animals) and sensitivity to other
features of the natural world (clouds, rock configurations). This ability was
clearly of value in our evolutionary past as hunters, gatherers, and farmers;
it continues to be central in such roles as botanist or chef.
7. Intrapersonal Intelligence: having an
understanding of yourself; knowing who you are, what you can do, what you want
to do, how you react to things, which things to avoid, and which things to
gravitate toward. We are drawn to people who have a good understanding of
themselves. They tend to know what they can and can't do, and to know where to
go if they need help.
8. Interpersonal Intelligence: the ability to
understand other people. It's an ability we all need, but is especially
important for teachers, clinicians, salespersons, or politicians -- anybody who
deals with other people.
9. Existential Intelligence: the ability and
proclivity to pose (and ponder) questions about life, death, and ultimate
realities.
introduce multiple intelligences
Multiple Intelligences
Dr. Howard Gardner, a psychologist and professor of neuroscience
from Harvard University, developed the theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) in
1983. The theory challenged traditional beliefs in the fields of education and
cognitive science.
For Gardner, intelligence is:
- the ability to create an effective product or offer a service that is valued in a culture;
- a set of skills that make it possible for a person to solve problems in life;
- the potential for finding or creating solutions for problems, which involves gathering new knowledge.
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