Quick Activities For Multiple Intelligences Improving Your Teaching

Quick Activities for Multiple Intelligences
Improving Your Teaching

Excerpted from Edupress - Developed by Concetta Doti Ryan, M.A.,
At SAVI, our instructional design uses the Multiple Intelligences as a basis to our
curriculum. By tapping into HOW people learn, and using activities throughout a
course that address different intelligences, your success in having your
participants or students learn the material has a much higher probability. See the
activities below as examples of how to address Multiple Intelligences in your
teaching.
Existential Intelligence
Learners with existential intelligence are attuned to the human condition. They are able to comprehend
issues like the significance of life and death and the experience of love.
Activities:
Plan a charity event

Maintain a current events notebook with a focus on humanitarian stories
Locate and read romantic poetry
Inter/Intrapersonal Intelligence
Interpersonal learners understand the moods and motivations of others enabling them to work and
communicate effectively. They enjoy social activities.
Activities:
Interview another student Play a game with a friend

Conduct a survey Write a story with a partner
Lead group discussions Tutor a friend
Intrapersonal learners have a deep awareness of their own inner feelings. They have a strong sense of
independence and self-confidence.
Activities:
Write your autobiography Keep a diary or journal

Set personal goals Evaluate your performance
Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
Learners who possess bodily-kinesthetic intelligence have the ability to work skillfully with objects
involving both fine and gross motor skills. They are characterized by a well-developed sense of balance
and motor control. In addition, they are skillful at translating intention into action. These learners are
most successful by doing.
Activities:
Pantomime an activity, task, or chore Learn sign language

Play a sport Plan and present a puppet show
Play charades Go on a nature hike
Act out a scene from a novel Go on a scavenger hunt
Perform a dance to express an emotion Exercise
Visual-Spatial Intelligence
Spatial intelligence is characterized by a person’s capacity to perceive the visual world and recreate
aspects of it even in the absence of relevant stimuli. This intelligence is fundamentally tied to the
concrete world and the location of objects in that world.
Though spatial intelligence grows most directly out of one’s observations of the visual world, it can
develop in a blind individual and, therefore, visual and spatial are not inextricably linked.
Activities:
Play chess Create a mental image of the setting of

Guess the mystery object inside a bag a book
Make a map of your neighborhood Put together a jigsaw puzzle
Make a diorama Wear a blindfold and try to walk around
Paint a picture that represents a story your classroom
Make a video of a school event Daydream about a vacation
Create a poster to express your Create a sculpture
thoughts on a current event Solve a maze
Play a board game
Musical/Naturalist Intelligence
No other intelligence emerges earlier than musical talent. Those who possess high levels of musical or
rhythmic intelligence constantly hear tones, rhythms, and musical patterns in the environment and
human voice, as well as music. The auditory sense is crucial, although not mandatory.
Activities:
Write a song Make a list of songs that calm,

Write an advertising jingle stimulate, or inspire you
Sing a song to the class Tap the musical pattern or
Make up a cheer count the number of beats in a
Attend a symphony song
People with Naturalistic intelligence have an appreciation for the natural world around them. They
possess the ability to classify and distinguish plants and animals in the environment.
Activities:
Go on a nature hike Diagram the stars and constellations in

Plant a garden the night sky
Create an animal collage Present a plant exhibit
Identify leaf tracings Learn the names of flowers
Plan a nature scavenger hunt for others Develop an animal card game
Listen to the sounds of nature on a tape Make a habitat diorama
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence
The logical-mathematical intelligence initially develops through observation, manipulation, and handling
of physical objects. In time, the thinking becomes more abstract. This intelligence is closely related to
scientific thinking and deductive reasoning.
Learners possessing this intelligence have the ability to recognize patterns, work with abstract symbols,
and see relationships. They also have an intuition about solving problems, often seeing a solution
before actually working out the problem.
As with the linguistic intelligence, learners who possess this intelligence are often perceived as being
very smart because standardized tests focus on math skills.
Activities:
solve a math problem using Compare and contrast two or more

manipulatives objects
add, subtract, multiply, or divide Solve analogies (leaves are to trees like
numbers petals are to …)
make something using a recipe Make a graph to represent data
create a pattern using manipulatives Build something with blocks
conduct a scientific experiment Classify objects
mentally compute equations Write a math story problem
create a Venn diagram for a topic you Play checkers
are studying Do a brain teaser
make an animal using tangrams Create an outline for a topic you are
create a time line studying
play a counting game such as Mancala Measure several objects in the
classroom
Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence
The power and love of the written and spoken word is at the heart of this intelligence. Reading, writing,
listening, and speaking are the activities that represent this intelligence. Learners who display this
intelligence to a high degree are sensitive to the sounds and meanings of words and are typically very
good at decoding. Additionally, these learners are seen as being very bright because school tasks and
standardized tests tend to emphasize this intelligence.
Linguistic intelligence is the most democratically and widely shared. While, for example, a musician or
artist exhibit abilities that seem mysterious to the average person, a poet or author is seen as possessing
to a higher degree what most of us have within us.
Activities:
Write poetry Create a class newspaper

Read with a buddy or partner Write and give a persuasive speech
Solve a crossword puzzle Solve scrambled words
Retell a story to a friend Write to a pen pal
Write in a journal Participate in a debate
Learn a new word each day Listen to a taped recording of a book
Listen to a lecture and take notes Write a book review
Give oral instructions for completing a Write and perform a comedy routine
task Become a storyteller for a younger class
Write an acrostic poem Write a script for a television show
Give a dramatic reading Read a daily newspaper
Write a sequel to a story Create a tongue twister

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Plan a charity event

Interview another student Play a game with a friend

Write your autobiography Keep a diary or journal

Pantomime an activity, task, or chore Learn sign language

Play chess Create a mental image of the setting of

Write a song Make a list of songs that calm,

Go on a nature hike Diagram the stars and constellations in

solve a math problem using Compare and contrast two or more

Write poetry Create a class newspaper

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