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Do you want to make your lessons more enjoyable for your students? I
have found that using Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences is the
key. My school requires their teachers to use as many of these as possible
in each and every lesson. Here you will find tips on implementing
Gardner-7 into your lessons.
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INTERPERSONAL |
VERBAL -- LINGUISTIC |
Engaging students in peer sharing, cooperative
learning, or large group simulation.
 | Cooperative work |
| Diverse point of view |
| Interviews |
| Peer feedback |
| Teaching others |
| Outside resources |
| Plays and simulations |
| Field Trips (Virtual field trips via constructing a web page) |
| Co-curricular activities |
| Group projects and presentations |
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Helping students process information through
reading, writing, speaking and listening.
| Letters, poems, stories, |
| Oral discussions |
| Interviews |
| Creation of story problems |
| Lectures |
| Audio Tapes |
| Storytelling |
| Brainstorming |
| Mnemonics |
| Reading, reading, and more reading |
| E-mail an expert |
| Hyperstudio-record voices (POWER POINT or KID PIX) |
| Journals, learning logs, Poetry, prose |
| Interactive Web sites |
| Storybook Weaver (Imagination Express) |
| PowerPoint demo |
| AlphaSmart - word processing-send to peers |
| Interactive Software-notepad with electronic Encyclopedias |
| Web Quest/Videotaping presentations (flowchart speaking) |
| Flexcam/Digital Cameras to illustrate/editing |
| Crossword Magic |
| Word Searches |
| Puzzlemaker.com |
| Videoconferencing |
| Multimedia Presentations |
| Media Literacy |
| Word Processing |
| Newsletters (by time period) |
| Writing from a variety of points of view |
| Create a brochure |
| E-mail for peer review |
| "My Own Story" software |
| Simple text |
| Accelerated Reader |
| Voice Recognition Software |
| Create Web Page |
| Inst. Sheets |
| Computer Based Simulations |
| Chat Rooms/IM |
| "Travel Buddy" (ex. Cow from IOWA is now prepared for bus
evac. Drill-this is written in journal to return to IOWA) |
| Speech to text |
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MUSICAL-RHYTHMIC |
INTRAPERSONAL |
Helping students process information through
working with rhythm, melodies, moods, patterned sounds.
| Musical vocabulary as metaphors |
| Song titles that explain content |
| Melody that captures a mood or concept |
| Choral reading |
| New lyrics to old song |
| Mnemonics |
| Composing music (logo or other programs) |
| Software w/built-in songs for topics and online sites |
| Keyboarding practice |
| Typing Tutor |
| Playing music on CD drive while writing, etc. |
| Software that uses musical notes ties to fractions and patterns
created by students |
| Tape players for music |
| Use sounds from multimedia encyclopedias and internet |
| Make up songs to teach concepts, etc. |
| Narrate graphics with rhythmic or melodic sounds |
| Lay background music |
| Spelunx-rhythm music |
| "Program music" to write to: find story within |
| Schoolhouse rock |
| Environmental Sounds-Old Fashioned Radio Show -- sound effects |
| Listen (also smell, taste, sight, touch) environment while recording
thoughts |
| Writing in words missing for song heard in foreign language class |
| Composer project with music incorporated |
| System sounds |
| Period music |
| Multiplication rap, etc. |
| Building instruments |
| 10th Planet |
| Math Keys |
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Evoking personal feeling or memories, or give
students choices.
| Reflective journal writing (via computer) |
| Autobiography on HyperStudio in different language |
| Video conferencing |
| Time line of their life |
| Web page design about selves |
| Reading response |
| Poetry-children's book with pictures |
| Internet searches for career/collage info. |
| Photo collage of self using scanner |
| Diary (class or individual) |
| Family tree (PowerPoint or Family Tree Software) |
| Sildeshow/timeline of significant events |
| Enhance presentations with music or video |
| Utilizing computer for organization (calendar schedule) |
| Web Quest |
| Research |
| Using the notes feature of various programs like PowerPoint to note
students individual reactions |
| Creating videos |
| Watching videos or video discs about personal experiences and
reflecting about them. |
| Taping an oral history |
| Surfing the Internet and making choices |
| Character education sites (see Classroom Connect, March 1999) |
| Letters to pen pals |
| Use evaluative judgement (what's good and why) |
| E-mail who you admire and tell them why |
| Use digital cameras to personalize projects |
| Primary source research |
| Genealogy project |
| Hero Project |
| Interview |
| Research cultural background and tape orally |
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LOGICAL-MATHEMATICAL |
VISUAL-SPATIAL |
Processing information through working with numbers,
patterns, calculation, logic, classifications, or critical thinking skills
| Lists of facts |
| Logic Problems |
| Data analysis |
| Story Problems |
| Puzzles |
| Experiments |
| Hypothesizing |
| Graphic organizers |
| Classifications |
| Categories |
| Time lines |
| Outlines |
| Compare/Contrast |
| Spreadsheets |
| Create or use Databases |
| Statistics |
| Number/time lines |
| Math Computations |
| VA PEN problem solving |
| Hyperstudio |
| Research Skills |
| Fractions |
| Slide Shows |
| Math Keys |
| Graphing |
| Stock Market |
| Attributes and Shapes |
| Symmetry |
| Probability |
| Historical Simulations |
| Carmen San Diego |
| The Factory |
| Graphic Organizers (Venn diagrams) |
| Outlines-integrate with math |
| Hypertext to map arguments/structures |
| "Logical Journey to the Zoomlines" |
| Arrays using stamps/clip art |
| Patterning |
| Boolean Logic for keyword searching |
| Strategy games (simulation software) like Chess, Sim City, Oregon
Trail, etc. |
| Incredible Machine |
| Simulate a business |
| Graphing Calculator |
| Inspiration |
| Cruncher |
| Graph Club |
| Thinking Things |
| Time Liner |
| Math Trek |
| Geo Sketch Pad |
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Processing information through images, color,
art visual aids, and drawing.
| Charts, posters, graphs, diagrams |
| Videotapes |
| Collages |
| Use of color and shapes |
| Demonstration |
| Drawing |
| Map making |
| Visualization |
| Picture metaphors |
| Idea Sketching |
| Graphic Symbols |
| Manipulatives |
| Illustrations |
| Create a Web Page |
| Animate objects or presentations |
| Digital Cameras and Digital Art (scanning) |
| Video capture and video tapes |
| Import pictures to create metaphors |
| Video and laser discs for visual images |
| Inspiration software for visual organizing |
| Screen capture and make posters |
| Designing and redesigning logos, business cards, etc. |
| Brainstorming, webbing and graphic organizers |
| Make brochures, travel guides, greeting cards |
| Virtual reality |
| Calligraphy, perspective, 3-D images |
| Time Lines |
| Flexcam to zoom in on visual demos |
| 3-D graphs (PowerPoint) |
| Drawing program-illustrate stories, molecules |
| Quickcam-C U See Me, QuickPict, Quick Movie |
| Draw and Paint |
| Map making |
| Perspective |
| Personalize desktop |
| Icons |
| All Adobe Programs, Photo Shop, Illustrator |
| Image Processing |
| CAD |
| Quick Time VR |
| Sim City |
| KID PIX |
| Play-do |
| Create Templates |
| Screen Printing |
| Photography |
| Print Shop (software) |
| Simulation |
| Magic 99 |
| Publisher, Print Shop, Snapz Pro |
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BODILY-KINESTHETIC
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Involving the whole body or use hands-on
experience.
| Videotaping movement |
| Computer Skills |
| Image Processing |
| Computer Set-up/Maintenance |
| Physical Simulation of Computer Concepts |
| Lego Data/Robotics |
| Probeware |
| GPS (Global Positioning) |
| Health/Sports Machinery |
| Scripting Dance/Role Plays and Videotaping (thinking through
kinesthetics) |
| Creating Animations |
| Keyboarding (enlarge or shower curtain for practice) |
| Assistive technology for special populations |
| Blacktop Maps |
| Concentration Games with Cards |
| Charades |
| Hopscotch |
| Carouseling around computers-with databases, stories, pattering... |
| Use Digital Camera for Shots of Students doing whatever and move
into a problem doing whatever and move into a program |
| Use "touch screen" feature for presentations (e.g.,
PowerPoint, HyperCard cards to use as manipulatives) |
| Compare body parts to computer parts (or any concept applicable) |
| Dramatization of technology vocabulary or concepts researched to the
computer |
| Build models of technical "things" and invent own
models/innovations |
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