Multiple Intelligences

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Activities using Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

For each one of Gardner’s intelligences four activities have been simply identified. Students may possess dominant abilities but they could enjoy choosing and participating in any of the activities, combining them even altering them to suit their own needs and desires. The activities cannot be limited by a certain intelligence’s defined operation. Learning is by nature holistic and multi-dimensional. Follow the links to the various activities that are defined by Gardner's 10 different Multiple Intelligences. Students along with their teachers could choose any of these activities to do either individually, in small groups or classes after the story has been shared. You might choose to create a Rubric even before you begin the activities.

intelligence

Activity 2

Activity 2

Activity 3

Activity 4

 

visual-spatial

 

 

create a comic strip of the story (1)

draw or paint a pictures of characters

posters + messages

 

create a story map

 

invent new characters

 

logical - mathematical

 

 

create a comic strip (2)

 

PEACE Problem Solving

 

design a game

 

write lists

 

bodily – kinesthetic

 

 

dance

performance

 

play

performance

 

 

use hands to create

 

rap music, hip hop with spoken text

 

musical

 

 

 

learn and sing the songs

 

play + percussion

 

write musical pieces

 

find other music with similar messages

 

linguistic

 

 

 

speak to a group

 

write and tell similar stories

 

read the story aloud to younger children

 

retell

 

interpersonal

 

 

 

listen to others

 

work with others

 

help people with their problems

create alternative peace-building endings

 

intrapersonal

 

 

 

discover new things

 

be aware of personal feelings

 

become a peace-builder

 

needs and wants

 

naturalistic

 

 

 

research

 

community project

Roots & Shoots

 

discover the meaning of

‘7-generations’

 

design-build

using the principles of permaculture

 

spiritual

 

 

 

find a special place

 

spirit of harmony-

mandalas

 

guided

meditations

 

conversations with Mama Earth and Daddy Sky

 

existential

 

spirit of harmony

 ‘Fear is the path that never begins.

Love is the path that never ends.’

 

 

debate

musical traditions

 

alternative peace-building endings

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