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Multiple Intelligence
These 8 categories are
based on Howard Gardener’s work on multiple intelligence (MI). This
theory is based on identifying and utilizing the many ways people
learn. Children will be most successful if parents and teachers
recognize these intelligences and provide multiple opportunities for
experiences and connections to their smart parts as listed
below. Most people have strengths in more than one intelligence.
To read about metacognition and what it means visit the
Metacognition page
| Music Smart |
Logic Smart |
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This person likes to
- Hear music in his or her head
- Hum
- Makes up songs or rhymes easily
- Tap or move to rhythms
Tchaikovsky Discovers America CD and
Vivaldi's Ring of Mystery
are excellent CD's as they both tell great story's intertwined with classical music.
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This person likes to
- Do experiments
- Ask questions
- Explore patterns
- Be precise
- Figure out relationships
- Have a special goal
- Solve things
Race For The Gold Game
and
Labyrinth-Treasure Hunt
are engaging activities that require critical thinking to solve a problem.
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| Picture Smart |
Self Smart |
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This person likes to
- Do puzzles
- Diagram and design
- Map, use blueprints, or flowcharts
- Draw or doodle
- Use manipulatives
- Imagine
- Visualize
Scratch Art and
Do A Dot Art-Rainbow Dot Art 6 Pack Mark allow a child to create pictures and
drawings in different and interesting mediums.
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This person likes to
- Be alone
- Is good at understanding self, focusing on inward on feeling/dreams
- Have time to think things through
- Reflect
Sponge Alphabet Letters & Numbers Markers and
Scratch Art-Multicolor
Paper
allow a child to express their ideas and thoughts in a unique and creative format.
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| Body Smart |
People Smart |
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This person likes to
- Build
- Dramatization
- Is good in sports
- Is well-coordinated physically
- Experience
- Feel and touch
- Make things
- Move
Great examples of this would be
Wikki Stix or
Transparent Marble Run.
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This person likes to
- Be with people
- Organize, communicated, and mediate conflict
- Empathize
- Interact-listening
- Communicative
- Lead
- Teach
The Prince Puppet by Folkmanis and
Princess Puppet by Folkmanis
are great toys that kids can use to dramatically play or act out with.
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| Word Smart |
Nature Smart |
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This person likes to
- Learn new vocabulary
- Play with words
- Learns best by saying, hearing, and seeing
- Is well-coordinated physically
- Read stories
- Write stories
- Tell stories
Alphabet Animals and
"Beginning Reading workbook"
help beginning readers identify letters and sounds to form words.
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This person likes to
- Categorize
- Collect items from nature, group and study them
- Grow plants
- Relates to animals
- Sort
Kids will enjoy watching natures magic take place before their eyes with
Butterfly Garden by Insect Lore or
Wee Enchanted Garden.
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| "Do not then train youths to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each." |
| "I found I could say things with colors and art that I had no words for." |
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