Transcript My Kind of Smarts!

My Kind of Smarts!
Multiple Intelligences
Intelligence
 The
capacity to learn, reason, and
understand; and the demonstration
of such capacity
Verbal/Linguistic Intelligence
Ability to use language to express one’s
thoughts and to understand other people
orally or in writing. Uses debate.
 Enjoys reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
 Likes to tell jokes, discussions, writing poems,
stories, and passing notes.
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Logical/Mathematical Intelligence:
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Ability to manipulate numbers, quantities, and
operations accompanied by a love of dealing
with abstractions such as patterns, relations,
numbers, and symbols
Examples: solving problems, working with
numbers, categorizing, determining relations
with cause and effects
Likes working with patterns and
relationships classifying
Visual/Spatial Intelligence:
Ability to represent the spatial world visually
in one’s mind. Express it through pictures,
sculptures, arranging objects, and navigating
through space. Likes working with pictures.
 Enjoy doodling, designing, drawing,
daydreaming, combining colors, arranging
objects, and often have a good sense of
direction.
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Musical/Rhythmic Intelligence:
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The ability to hear music in one’s head and to hear
tones, rhythms, and larger musical patterns.
Enjoy listening to and creating music in many forms.
Good with rhythm.
Playing music, singing songs, reading music, composing
melodies and lyrics, remembering melodies, humming,
and appreciating music
Bodily/Kinesthetic Intelligence:
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The ability to use the whole body or parts of the
body to solve problems, create a product, or put on
some kind of production; role play.
Think in, with, about movement or gestures. Facial
and hand gestures and body movements are symbols
to think in and express this intelligence.
Enjoy physical activities, and developing physical skills
such as: dancing, acting, athletics, and using tools.
Likes to move around and touch to learn;
hands-on activities
Naturalist Intelligence:
The ability to discriminate among living things
and to see patterns.
 also a sensitivity to features of the natural
world such as plants, animals, clouds, and
rocks. Can make distinctions between flora
and fauna.
 Enjoys collecting, analyzing, and studying plants,
animals, and environments
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Interpersonal Intelligence:
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The ability to notice and make distinctions among
others; a strong understanding of other people.
Enjoys working with, caring for, leading, seeing
different views of opinion, and learning from others.
Likes to lead, organize, communicate, resolve conflicts,
join groups, and talk to people.
Has strong friendship and leadership skills
Intrapersonal Intelligence:
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The ability to know and understand one’s internal
moods, feelings, state of mind and one’s self; including
goals, tendencies, talents, and limitations.
Uses dream images and feelings as symbols
to think and express oneself.
Enjoys solitude, contemplation, and the ability to
explore inner states of thoughts-including preferences,
plans, fantasies, memories, and feelings.
Likes to work alone to pursue their own interests and
have their own space. Has the ability to recognize their
own strengths and weaknesses and set their own goals
Reflection…
Take The Connell Multiple Intelligence
Questionnaire for Children.
 Be honest! This is only to help you!
 Put this in you Interactive Notebook on
page 13.
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Now…..
On
an index card, write
down the Way you learn
BEST.
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Found on questionnaire!
Walk-about…..
Take your card and WALK-ABOUT the room
and find at least 1 but no more than 3 other
people with the same card!
 Create a group!
 In your group, come up with an illustration that
best captures the way you learn on the larger
index card!
 Use color-crayons, markers, colored pencils
 Write down this learning style in your IN
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