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 |
| choral speaking
storytelling debating presenting reading aloud book making reading researching listening process writing writing journals |
problem solving
measuring sequencing predicting collecting data experimenting solving puzzles classifying manipulatives using money using geometry |
graphing
mapping stories 3D projects illustrating charts organizers visualizing sketching patterning puzzles |
hands on experiments
creative movement physical education activities crafts dramatizing cooperative groups dancing |
| Musical | Interpersonal | Intrapersonal | Naturalistic |
| humming
playing background music patterns playing instruments tapping out poetic rhythms rhyming singing |
classroom parties
peer editing cooperative learning group work peer teaching conflict mediation discussing cross age tutoring study group brainstorming |
personal response
individual study personal goal setting individual projects journal log keeping personal choice in projects independent reading |
reading outside
identifying insects building habitats identifying plants using a microscope going on a nature walk build a garden studying the stars collecting rocks going to the zoo |
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