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Multiple Intelligence Activities:: Logical/Mathematical "Math Smart" Kids, May Enjoy

This document provides a list of learning activities categorized by Gardner's eight multiple intelligences that teachers can use to engage students with different intelligences. It includes activities for logical/mathematical, visual/spatial, kinesthetic, musical, naturalist, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and verbal/linguistic intelligences. Some example activities are creating graphs and diagrams, role playing, composing music, collecting natural objects, cooperative group projects, journaling, and oral presentations. The document aims to offer a variety of options to incorporate multiple intelligences into lesson planning.

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Multiple Intelligence Activities:: Logical/Mathematical "Math Smart" Kids, May Enjoy

This document provides a list of learning activities categorized by Gardner's eight multiple intelligences that teachers can use to engage students with different intelligences. It includes activities for logical/mathematical, visual/spatial, kinesthetic, musical, naturalist, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and verbal/linguistic intelligences. Some example activities are creating graphs and diagrams, role playing, composing music, collecting natural objects, cooperative group projects, journaling, and oral presentations. The document aims to offer a variety of options to incorporate multiple intelligences into lesson planning.

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Multiple Intelligence Activities:

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Logical/Mathematical "Math Smart" kids, may enjoy:

• Categorize Information and facts about your topic


• Compare and/or contrast a topic using Graphs
• Create a Venn Diagram Create a Pamphlet of info
• Create and conduct an Experiment
• Create Word Puzzles for your classmates
• Create a Timeline
• Develop a Fact file
• Develop a Game about your topic
• Develop a Memory System based on numbers/patterns
• Interpret data from your topic area
• Keep a Journal on your topic
• Produce a Document in Excel
• Translate data from a variety of sources
• Make a Calendar related to your topic
• Develop and Present a Database
• Use your deductive reasoning skills
• Write a computer program or modify an existing one
• Write a Guided Visual Imagery
• Write a Poem or an Essay
• Write an Editorial Essay

Visual/Spatial "Art Smart" kids may enjoy:

• Creating charts, posters, graphs, or diagrams


• Creating a Web page or PowerPoint project
• Making a videotape or film
• Creating pie charts, bar graphs, etc.
• Making a photo album
• Creating a collage
• Making a mobile or sculpture
• Designing a mindmap
• Making a map
• Using color and shape
• Developing or using Guided Imagery
Kinesthetic "Body Smart" kids may enjoy:

• Creating a dance or movement sequence


• Role Playing
• Using physical gestures to communicate an idea
• Performing a skit or play
• Making manipulatives
• Building a model
• Performing Martial Arts
• Making a board or floor game
• Putting together a puzzle
• Creating and/or participating in a scavenger hunt
• Performing a pantomime
• Demonstrating sports games

Musical "Music Smart" kids may enjoy:

• Writing or singing a curriculum song in the content area


• Developing and/or using rhythmic patterns as learning aids
• Composing a melody
• Changing the words to a song
• Finding song titles that help explain content
• Creating a musical game or collage
• Identifying music that helps students study
• Using musical vocabulary as metaphors

Naturalistic "Nature Smart" kids may enjoy:

• Categorizing species of plants and animals


• Developing an outdoor classroom
• Collecting objects from nature
• Making celestial observations
• Using scientific equipment for observing nature
• Initiating projects on the Food chain, Water Cycle, or environmental
issues
• Predicting problems in nature related to human habitation
• Joining an environmental/wildlife protection group
• Finding/Reporting/Researching local/global environmental concerns
• Building and labeling collections of natural objects from a variety of
sources
Interpersonal "People Smart" kids may enjoy:

• Giving feedback to the teacher or to classmates


• Intuiting other's feelings
• Empathy practices
• Establishing a Division of Labor
• Person-to-person communication
• Cooperative learning strategies
• Collaborative skills
• Receiving feedback
• Sensing other's motives
• Group projects
• Teaching someone else something new
• Learning from someone outside of school
• Other points of view
• Creating group rules
• Acting in a play or simulation
• Conducting an interview

Intrapersonal "Self Smart" kids may enjoy:

• Keeping a journal or diary


• Setting short/long-term goals
• Learning why and how the content under study is important in real life
• Describing his/her feelings about a subject
• Evaluating his/her own work
• Describing his/her personal strengths
• Carrying out an independent project
• Writing or drawing a personal history of his/her work
• Creating his/her own schedule and environment for completing class work
• Having silent reflection time
• Being allowed to emotionally process information
• Using metacognition techniques
• Using Focusing and/or Concentration skills

Verbal/Linguistic "Word Smart" kids may enjoy:

• Writing letters, poems, stories, descriptions


• Leading an oral discussion or debate
• Creating audio tapes
• Giving an oral presentation
• Writing or giving a news report
• Developing questions for, and conducting an interview
• Presenting a radio drama
• Creating a slogan
• Writing their own story problems
• Keeping a journal or diary
• Doing Storytelling or writing all types of Humor/Jokes
Task:

1. Number each activity with the corresponding line of inquiry.

2. Label activity according to Bloom’s revised taxonomy and


Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences.

Example:

2nd Grade Unit 3

Central Idea:

Families recognize personal and cultural events through celebrations and


traditions.

Lines of Inquiry:

1. What celebrations and traditions are


2. How and why people celebrate
3. Similarities and differences in celebrating the same holiday by people from
different cultures

Learning Activities:

2. Interpersonal, Analyzing: Students will conduct a survey to parents about how


and why people celebrate a certain holiday. Survey will be designed by students.

2. Visual, Applying: Students will create a bar graph and a pie chart representing
data gathered from survey.

Teresa Wirsching The International School 2009

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