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Activities for Multiple Intelligences

The document provides a chart listing activities that engage different types of intelligence as defined by Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. The chart is divided into sections for verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic, and technology-specific activities. The activities aim to ensure educators tap into students' diverse intelligences through varied lessons, projects, and assignments in both traditional and technology-based formats.

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Activities for Multiple Intelligences

The document provides a chart listing activities that engage different types of intelligence as defined by Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. The chart is divided into sections for verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalistic, and technology-specific activities. The activities aim to ensure educators tap into students' diverse intelligences through varied lessons, projects, and assignments in both traditional and technology-based formats.

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Multiple Intelligences Activities Chart

How do you ensure all of your students' intelligences are being tapped? Here is a list of activities that speak to 
each intelligence.  

Verbal‐Linguistic  Logical‐Mathematical  Visual‐Spatial  Bodily‐Kinesthetic 

ƒ choral speaking   ƒ problem solving ƒ graphing  ƒ hands on 


ƒ storytelling   ƒ measuring   ƒ photographing   experiments  
ƒ retelling   ƒ coding   ƒ making visual  ƒ activities  
ƒ speaking   ƒ sequencing   metaphors   ƒ changing room 
ƒ debating   ƒ critical thinking   ƒ making visual  arrangement  
ƒ presenting   ƒ predicting   analogies   ƒ creative 
ƒ reading aloud   ƒ playing logic  ƒ mapping stories   movement  
ƒ dramatizing   games   ƒ making 3D projects  ƒ going on field 
ƒ book making   ƒ collecting data   ƒ painting   trips  
ƒ nonfiction  ƒ experimenting   ƒ illustrating   ƒ physical 
reading   ƒ solving puzzles   ƒ using charts   education 
ƒ researching   ƒ classifying   ƒ using organizers   activities  
ƒ listening   ƒ using  ƒ visualizing   ƒ crafts  
ƒ process writing  manipulatives   ƒ sketching   ƒ dramatizing  
ƒ writing journals   ƒ learning the  ƒ patterning   ƒ using 
scientific model   ƒ visual puzzles cooperative 
ƒ using money   groups  
ƒ using geometry  ƒ dancing 

Musical  Interpersonal  Intrapersonal  Naturalistic 

ƒ humming   ƒ classroom parties  ƒ personal response  ƒ reading outside 


ƒ rapping   ƒ peer editing   ƒ individual study   ƒ cloud watching  
ƒ playing  ƒ cooperative  ƒ personal goal  ƒ identifying 
background  learning   setting   insects  
music   ƒ sharing   ƒ individual projects   ƒ building 
ƒ playing  ƒ group work   ƒ journal log keeping  habitats  
instruments   ƒ forming clubs   ƒ personal choice in  ƒ identifying 
ƒ tapping out  ƒ peer teaching   projects   plants  
poetic rhythms   ƒ social awareness   ƒ independent  ƒ using a 
ƒ rhyming   ƒ conflict mediation   reading  microscope  
ƒ singing  ƒ discussing   ƒ dissecting  
ƒ cross age tutoring   ƒ going on a 
ƒ study group   nature walk  
ƒ brainstorming  ƒ build a garden  
ƒ studying the 
stars  
ƒ bird watching  
ƒ collecting rocks  
ƒ making bird 
feeders  
ƒ going to the zoo

 
Reference: TeacherVision: http://www.teachervision.fen.com/intelligence/teaching‐methods/2204.html  
Innovative Teaching Concepts:  http://www.todaysteacher.com/MILearningActivities.htm  
 
Technology-Specific Activities

Verbal‐Linguistic  Logical‐Mathematical  Visual‐Spatial  Bodily‐Kinesthetic 

ƒ word processing and  ƒ organizational tools  ƒ creating comics and  ƒ keyboarding, mouse, 


desktop publishing   (databases, calendars)   sequential art   joystick, and other 
ƒ video scripting and  ƒ calculation tools  ƒ creating with CAD ‐  devices for 
recording   (spreadsheets)   Computer‐Aided Design   movement  
ƒ voice annotation in  ƒ scientific equipment  ƒ using animation software   ƒ using scientific probes 
word processing   (probes)   ƒ building online puzzles   and microscopes  
ƒ using comment  ƒ science and math  ƒ drawing and painting  ƒ producing videos 
features in word  software   programs   skits, dances, sports, 
processing   ƒ spreadsheets   ƒ using timeline software   role playing, 
ƒ story‐creation  ƒ graphing calculators and  ƒ desktop publishing   demonstrations with 
software   software   ƒ concept mapping tools  video or digital 
ƒ multimedia authoring  ƒ using multimedia  and diagrams   cameras  
and presentation   authoring to display  ƒ computer‐generated  ƒ animation  
ƒ audio recorders for  results   charts, graphs, and tables   ƒ claymation ‐ 
recording oral  ƒ videotaping experiments,  ƒ spreadsheets for charts  sequence of 
histories and/or  demonstrations, data  and graphs   movement  
interviews   gathering   ƒ web development tools   ƒ using handheld palms 
ƒ email, chat, social  ƒ using animation to  ƒ digital drawing pads   ƒ using or creating 
networking   demonstrate an  ƒ 3D and morphing software  virtual field trips  
ƒ discussion forums for  experiment   ƒ map making   ƒ creating with Lego 
talk and debating   ƒ online data collection   ƒ video conferencing   Logo and Robotics or 
ƒ reading and evaluating  ƒ problem solving software   ƒ scrapbooking, photo  other construction kit 
Web information   ƒ strategy, logic, and critical  albums, and slide shows   projects  
ƒ use of electronic  thinking software   ƒ presenting visual  ƒ virtual worlds and 
reference tools and  information materials:  gaming  
interactive books ‐    photographs, clipart, 
encyclopedia,  charts, graphs, tables    
dictionaries, CD's   ƒ color‐coding projects and 
ideas  
  ƒ matching pictures to 
vocabulary words  
ƒ Websites with visual or 
color organizers  
ƒ creating visual artwork  
ƒ using computer‐generated 
board games  
ƒ working with digital 
cameras  

Musical  Interpersonal  Intrapersonal  Naturalistic 

ƒ using video and audio  ƒ blogging and email  ƒ computer‐based  ƒ using audio, video or 


recorders to digitize  projects   journaling and blogging   digital cameras to 
singing and musical  ƒ use of chat   ƒ creating concept maps   record natural world  
instruments   ƒ word processing   ƒ using problem solving  ƒ word processing ‐ 
ƒ working with sound  ƒ forums and discussions   software   journaling, natural 
and music files   ƒ video and  ƒ conducting Internet  information  
ƒ generating music clips   teleconferencing   research   ƒ data organization and 
ƒ using music  ƒ group decisions software   ƒ creating video projects to  calculation (database, 
generation software   ƒ social networks   record personal ideas   spreadsheet) of 
ƒ creating animation  ƒ video recording ‐ sharing  ƒ creating multimedia  observations  
with musical elements   with others through skits,  portfolios   ƒ use microscopes and 
ƒ using music  debates, role plays   probes to show nature 
composition software   ƒ collaborative computer  up close  
ƒ creating audio DVDs  software or games   ƒ geocaching with GPS 
and CDs   ƒ group presentations  equipment  
ƒ working with  (PowerPoint)  
interactive books and  ƒ peer tutoring    
audio elements   ƒ virtual worlds  
ƒ using audio notation in 
word processors  

Reference: Teacher Tap, Technology and Multiple Intelligences: http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic68.htm  
 

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