Multiple Intelligence Theory · Multiple Intelligence Categories Mathematical (logic smart) Spatial (picture smart) Kinesthetic (body smart) Interpersonal (people smart) Intrapersonal

Multiple Intelligence Theory

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“It’s not how smart you are, but how you are smart.”

- Howard Gardner

Multiple Intelligence Categories

Mathematical (logic smart)

Spatial (picture smart)

Kinesthetic (body smart)

Interpersonal (people smart)

Intrapersonal (self smart)

Naturalistic (nature smart)

Linguistic (word smart) Musical

(music smart)

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Existential (religious smart)

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Word smart

Picture smart

Body smart

People smart

Which is missing?

Self smart

Nature smart

Logic smart

Music smart

Word Smart (Linguistic Intelligence)

You like words and the ways that they can be used in reading, writing, or speaking. Very good communicators.

Prefer and enjoy:

-  love to read -  like to tell stories -  like to write creative stories and poetry -  enjoy learning foreign languages -  have a good vocabulary? -  “spall” well? -  like to write letters and emails -  have a good memory for names or facts -  play word games such as Scrabble, Banana-gram, and

crossword puzzles…tongue twisters and rhyming.

Linguistic MI Nugget

Did You Know?... Scientists tell us that people who use sign language—including the deaf and hearing impaired—are mostly using the Word Smart areas of the brain to communicate?

Music Smart (Musical Intelligence)

You appreciate and hear rhythm, melody, and different patterns in music and sounds. You are capable of hearing tone and pitch.

Prefer and enjoy:

-  Singing and listening to music -  Remember melodies or tunes easily -  Hum or sing while thinking or doing tasks -  Attends concerts for fun -  Play an instrument and able to read music -  Like making musical sounds with your body (humming,

clapping your hands, snapping your fingers, or tapping your feet.

-  Make up or write your own songs or raps. -  Remember facts by making up a song for them.

Animaniacs!

Nations of the World

The Presidents

State Capitols The Duck Song

Music MI Nugget… Did You Know?... Musical Intelligence is probably the first intelligence to appear. Babies respond and move to music long before they start talking. Prodigies or children who are very talented very young are also pretty common in music. Award-winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma played his first public concert at the age of 6!

Logic Smart ( Mathematical)

You prefer and enjoy:

-  Find numbers fascinating (statistics, baseball stats) -  Able to easily do math in your head -  Like solving mysteries, riddles, and brainteasers -  Like estimating or guessing the amounts of things …like

the number of pennies in a jar. -  Enjoy strategy games like Chess, Checkers, Sudoku -  Likes to find patterns in math and concepts -  Enjoys discovering how computers work -  Like Science and like to figure things out (trial and error)

You understand numbers and math concepts easily, finding patterns, and logic in puzzles.

Logic MI Nugget

Did You Know?... You have a 1 in 383 chance as a working adult of becoming a millionaire in any given year when you grow up. (Better odds than winning the lottery).

Logic MI Nugget #2!

Did You Know?... The sky is blue because of sunlight. Sunlight is made up of a lot of different colors of light mixed together even though sunlight usually just looks white. Some colors of light move through air, dust, and gases (the earth’s atmosphere) better than others. Blue light tends to get shoved around a lot by air and dust. So, the blue sky you see when you look up is blue light that has been shoved out of the “white” sunlight by all of the air in our atmosphere.

Picture Smart (Spatial Intelligence)

You Prefer and enjoy: -  Remember faces better than names -  Easily see objects in your mind -  Like taking things apart and putting them back together (Legos) -  Work with art materials like paper, paint, and markers -  Enjoy watching movies, videos, and play lots of video games -  Notice the style of clothing, hairstyles, cars, bikes, or other

everyday things -  Prefer to look at maps for direction -  Enjoy looking at photos and pictures -  Like to draw or doodle a lot -  Learn by watching - Visual puzzles and mazes

Mainly about learning and thinking in pictures. Love to look at the world and see all the interesting things in it. Show others your vision through art, design, photography, architecture or invention.

Spatial MI Nugget

Did You Know? Grandma Moses, a famous American folk art painter, started painting in her 70s –when her arthritis got too bad for needlework!

Body Smart (Kinesthetic Intelligence)

You learn and think with your body. You’re graceful and comfortable in your body, using it to learn new skills or to express yourself in different ways.

Prefer and enjoy:

-  You like to move around and be active (sports) -  Learn physical skills easily and quickly (athletic) -  Use movement to help you remember things…Move

while you think -  Enjoy acting in skits or plays -  Mimic or imitate people’s gestures and expressions

(comedians) -  Do crafts, build models, and repair things with skill -  Like to dance! -  Have good coordination or a good sense of timing

Kinesthetic MI Nugget

Did You Know?... A glass blower uses each part of her body to create a piece of blown glass –even a small one. She uses her arms and hands to mold the glass and move it while it melts. She uses her mouth and lungs to blow air carefully into the hot glass. She uses her shoulders and back to twirl the pipe the glass is formed on to expand the glass form.

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People Smart (Interpersonal Intelligence)

You like people and can express it in an amazing number of ways. You’re interested in other people and how people interact with each other.

Some of the ways people identify as ‘People smart’: -  Like to ‘people watch’ -  Make friends easily and like to meet new people -  Offer to help when someone needs it -  Enjoy group activities rather than work alone -  Enjoy lively conversations -  Help other people around you get along better -  Like to organize activities for you and your friends -  Perceptive of others’ feelings -  Get concerned about issues of fairness and right vs. wrong -  Enjoy volunteering for causes that help other people

Interpersonal MI Nugget

Did You Know?... Scientists estimate that there are over 700,00 different things we can do with our faces, gestures, and body postures to communicate. With so many ways to communicate before we even open our mouths, it’s impressive that we can understand each other at all!

Self Smart (Intrapersonal Intelligence)

You’re aware of your feelings, and you may understand yourself better than others understand you. You have a good understanding what you’re good at, and the areas you want to improve in.

Prefer to: -  Have a good sense of who you are -  Like to set and meet your own goals -  Work on your own rather than others -  Stand up for your beliefs, even if they’re not popular -  Worry less about what other people think of you -  Know how you’re feeling and why most of the time -  Have a strong sense of what you’re good at and not good at -  Like to write about your ideas, memories, feelings…reflect on

the past and things that matter to you -  Think about the future and what you’d like to be someday

Intrapersonal MI Nugget

Did You Know?... You spend roughly two hours every night in REM sleep, which is the only type of sleep you’re able to dream in. During your life, you’ll spend four to six years just dreaming!

Nature Smart (Naturalist Intelligence)

You are curious about and have an understanding for the environment you live in. You’re observant and notice what is around you and enjoy identifying and classifying things like plants, animals, or rocks.

Prefer and enjoy: -  Love animals and enjoy taking care of pets -  Good at tending to and caring for plants -  Care about nature and environmental causes -  Like going to parks, zoos, and aquariums -  Enjoy camping or hiking in nature -  Seem to notice nature wherever you are -  Able to adapt to different places and events easily -  Have a good memory for the details of places where you’ve

been to -  Have “street smarts” (the ability to understand yourself in

a new of different situation or place).

Nature MI Nugget

Did You Know?... The youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest (the highest mountain in the world) is a Nepalese boy named Temba Tsheri. He reached the summit (the top of the mountain) on May 22, 2001 when he was just 15 years old!

Religious Smart (Existential Intelligence) The ability to be sensitive to, or have the capacity for, conceptualizing or tackling deeper or larger questions about human existence. , such as the meaning of life, why are we born, why do we die, what is consciousness, or how did we get here.

Tend to ask questions and wonder about things such as…

-  Wonder about what is the meaning of life? -  Why are we born? -  Why do we die? -  Is there life on other planets? -  How did we get here? -  How did the dinosaurs become extinct? -  Religious beliefs -  Philosophy

Existentialism MI Nugget

Did you know?... Nostradamus studied astrology and various "occult" sciences and used those to predict the future. For a prediction around the time of Sept. 11, 2001, he predicted:

Earthshaking fire from the center of the Earth Will cause tremors around the New City. Two great rocks will war for a long time, Then Arethusa will redden a new river.

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Key points to remember … •  Each person possesses all nine intelligences

•  There are many different ways of being smart in each intelligence

•  The different intelligences work together in almost everything you do.

•  Most people can grow and develop each

intelligence level •  You may know what you’re best at, but that

doesn’t mean you’re limited to one kind of intelligence.

Final MI Nugget

Hide not your talents. For use they were made. What’s a sundial kept in the shade! - Ben Franklin