MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES Use the following activities and techniques for students and groups with high

by Howard Gardner – American Psychologist – Book: Frames of Mind Logical-mathematical intelligence:

1)Linguistic Intelligence (“word smart”)

- Linguistic Intelligence is a part of Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligence 1. Provide opportunities for problem solving
theory that deals with sensitivity to the spoken and written language, 2. Involve calculations
ability to learn languages, and capacity to use language to accomplish 3. Create activities that involve deciphering a code
certain goals. 4. Use pattern or logic games
- People with linguistic intelligence, such as William Shakespeare and Oprah 5. Organize new information in an outline format
Winfrey, have an ability to analyze information and create products
involving oral and written language such as speeches, books, and memos. Learning with Logical-Mathematical Intelligence:
- Learn your best by creating information outlines with points, and making
Patterns of the information.
Teaching for Linguistic Intelligence:
Potential Career Choices
Use the following activities and techniques for students and groups with high
Linguistic intelligence: Careers you could dominate with your logical-mathematical intelligence:
1. Use creative writing activities such as poetry or script writing - Mathematician, Accountant, Statistician, Scientist, Computer Analyst.
2. Set up class debates
3. Allow for formal speaking opportunities
4. Use humor, such as joke writing or telling
5. Make sure there are plenty of reading opportunities 3.) Spatial Intelligence (“picture smart”)

Learning with Linguistic Intelligence: - Spatial intelligence features the potential to recognize and manipulate the
patterns of wide space (those used for instance, by navigators and pilots)
- Learn your best by writing, practicing speeches, creating jokes, journaling, as wel as the pattems of more confined areas, such as those of importance
and Reading. to sculptors surgeons, chess players, graphic artists, or architects
- People with spatial intelligence, such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Amelia
Potential Career Choices Earhart, have an ability to recognize and manipulate large-scale and fine-
Careers you could dominate with your linguistic intelligence: Lawyer, Speaker grained Spatial images
/Host, Author, Journalist, Curator.

Teaching for Visual-Spatial Intelligence:

2.) Logical-Mathematical Intelligence (“number/reasoning smart”) Visual-spatial intelligence. Use the following activities and techniques for students
- Logical-mathematical intelligence refers to the capacity to analyze and groups with high visual -spatial intelligence:
problems 1. Use mind mapping techniques
- Logically, carry out mathematical operations, and investigate issues 2. Use guided visualizations or verbal imagery
scientifically. 3. Provide opportunities for artistic expression using a variety of mediums
- People with logical-mathematical intelligence, such as Albert Einstein and (paint, clay, etc)
Bill Gates, have an ability to develop equations and proofs, make 4. Allow for make-believe or fantasy
calculations, and solve abstract problems. 5. Create collages for visual representations
Learning with Visual-Spatial Intelligence:
Teaching for Logical-Mathematical Intelligence:
 - Learn your best by creating something visual using space such as a Use the following activities and techniques for students and groups with high
collage. Art piece, or written map of the information. Musical intelligence:
Potential Career Choices 1. Use instruments and instrument sounds
2. Use environmental sounds to illustrate a concept
Careers you could dominate with your spatial intelligence: Pilot, Surgeon, 3. Allow for musical composition and performance
Architect, Graphic Artist, Interior Decorator 4. Allow students to create songs about a topic
4) Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence (“body smart”) Learning with Musical Intelligence:
- Bodily kinesthetic intelligence is the potential of using one’s whole body or - To learn best with your musical intelligence, try making a song with
parts of the body (like the hand or the mouth) to solve problems or to content you need to know.
fashion products
- People with bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, such as Michael Jordan and Potential Career Choices
Simone Biles, have an ability to use one’s own body to create products, Careers you could dominate with your musical intelligence: Singer, Composer, DJ,
perform skills, or solve problems through mind-body union. Musician

Teaching for Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence:

Use the following activities and techniques for students and groups with high
bodily-kinesthetic intelligence: 6.) Interpersonal Intelligence (“people smart”)
1. Use body sculpture - Interpersonal intelligence is the capacity to understand the intentions,
2. Use of role playing, miming, or charade games motivations, and desires of other people and consequently to work
3. Allow for physical exercise, dance, or martial arts effectively with others.
4. Create opportunities for dramatic arts such as skits - People with interpersonal intelligence, such as Mahatma Gandhi and
5. Use human graphs Mother Teresa, have an ability to recognize and understand other people’s
moods, desires. Motivations, and intentions.
Learning with Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence:
- To learn at your best, try creating a movement routine or role play to learn
a Concept or remember information. Teaching for Interpersonal Intelligence:
Potential Career Choices Use the following activities and techniques for students and groups with high
Interpersonal intelligence:
Careers you could dominate with your bodily-kinesthetic intelligence. Dancer.
1. Teach collaborative skills
Athlete Surgeon, Mechanic, Carpenter, Physical Therapist 2. Use person-person communication
3. Use empathy

5.) Musical Intelligence (“music smart”) Learning with Interpersonal Intelligence:

- Musical intelligence refers to the skill in the performance, composition, and - To learn best with high interpersonal intelligence, try doing most of your
appreciation of musical patterns. work in a group or with another person. Try to put yourself in the shoes of
- People with musical intelligence, such as Beethoven and Ed Sheeran, have people or situations you are learning about.
an ability to recognize and create musical pitch, rhythm, timbre, and tone.
Teaching for Musical Intelligence: Potential Career Choices
Careers you could dominate with your interpersonal intelligence: Teacher,
Psychologist, Manager, Salespeople, Public Relations

7.) Intrapersonal Intelligence ("self smart")

- Intrapersonal intelligence is the capacity to understand oneself, to have an
effective working model of oneself-including own's desires, fears, and 8.) Naturalist intelligence ("nature smart")
capacities-and to use such information effectively in regulating one's own - Naturalistic intelligence involves expertise in the recognition and
life. classification of the numerous species the flora and fauna of his or her
- People with intrapersonal intelligence, such as Aristotle and Maya Angelou, environment.
have an ability to recognize and understand his or her own moods, desires, - People with naturalistic intelligence, such as Charles Darwin and Jane
motivations, and intentions. Goddall, have an ability to identify and distinguish among different types
- This type of intelligence can help a person to understand which life goals of plants, animals, and weather formations that are found in the natural
are important and how to achieve them. world.
Teaching for Intrapersonal Intelligence
Use the following activities and techniques for students and groups with high Teaching for Naturalist Intelligence:
intrapersonal intelligence: Use the following activities and techniques for students and groups with high
1. Practice meditation Naturalist intelligence:
2. Allow for plenty of self reflection 1. Practice conservation
3. Use mindfulness 2. Have a classroom plant or animals to care of
4. Practice reaching altered states of consciousness 3. Observe nature, go on nature walks
Learning with Intrapersonal Intelligence: 4. Use species classification
5. Provide hands-on labs of natural materials
- To learn best with intrapersonal intelligence, try using mindful walks,
meditation, and metacognition. Learning with Naturalist Intelligence:

Potential Career Choices - To learn at your best, do your learning outdoors. Work with natural
materials or animals as much as possible to work through concepts.
- Careers you could dominate with your intrapersonal intelligence:
Therapist, Psychologist, Counselor, Entrepreneur, Clergy Potential Career Choices
Careers you could dominate with your naturalist intelligence: Botanist, Biologist,
Astronomer, Meteorologist, Geologist