Multiple Intelligences

Multiple Intelligences

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Musical/Rhythmic
Sing, dance, listen, and respond to music.
Develop musical abilities and talents and learn
to distinguish tone, mood, melody, and rhythm.
Rhyme, rap, chanting, dance, songs, & jump-rope rhymes.

Bodily/Kinesthetic
Touch and Movement.
Field trips, using manipulatives (dolls, dress-up,
build models, prepare food),
pantomime, role-playing, sign language.
Artistic and physical expression.

Interpersonal
Develop empathy and connection with other humans.
Co-operative learning, interviews, partner-reading,
inferences based on oral and body language,
discussions and group problem solving.

Intrapersonal
Awareness of abilities, interests, & strengths.
Metacognition, self-awareness, self-esteem,
pride, & self-evaluation of performance.

Visual/Spatial
Perceive three dimensional reality.
Visualization, architectural planning,
orienting to maps and directional cues,
planning and executing mazes,
imagining story maps, and planning
three-dimensional projects.

Logical/Mathmetical
Reasoning and logic.
Cause and effect awareness,
mathematical reasoning, number sense,
scientific thinking, and sequencing.

Verbal/Linguistic
Reading, oral speech, phonics, spelling, persuasion,
and composition skills of writing in poetry and prose.

Naturalist
The human ability to discriminate among
living things (plants, animals) as well as sensitivity to
other features of the natural world
(clouds, rock configurations, etc.).

Existential
Individuals who exhibit the proclivity to pose (and ponder)
questions about life, death, and ultimate realities.
Socratic questioning