| Name of the Exercise | Activities Across 8 Multiple Intelligences |
|---|---|
| Number of participants | Max. 10 |
| Duration | 45 minutes |
| Objective | Give teachers/trainers the idea on how to use their learners' strengths in the classroom to their advantage (the topics are easily adaptable to learners’ needs/preferences, these are only suggestions) |
| How to conduct it | Operationalization: 1) Logical/mathematical: Enjoys working with numbers, doing experiments Activity: Ask learners to reinvent or improve upon the designs of everyday objects. 2) Visual/spatial: Enjoys drawing and painting Activity: Play drawing games such as Pictionary or Win, Lose or Draw. Have learners make rapid drawings to capture key points being discussed in a class lesson. 3) Naturalist: Enjoys studying things in nature, such as rocks, dinosaurs, insects, plants Activity: Given certain basic guiding principles, ask learners to describe an animal, ecosystem, or other natural entity. To stimulate creativity, the entity need not exist at present, but should be theoretically imaginable. 4) Bodily/kinaesthetic: Enjoys dancing, crafts, or sports Activity: Use the human body as a "map" for learning new information in different subjects. In geography, for example, the body might represent Europe. If the head is Scandinavia, then where is Italy? or Ask learners to think of concepts learned in a lesson – and have them act out the answers in a game of charades. 5) Musical/Rhythmic: Enjoys listening to music Activity: The subject matter to be taught is Dangerous predators. Have learners select music that best demonstrates the lesson theme. 6) Interpersonal: Enjoys giving advice to friends who have problems Activity: Ask learners to think of the results of unlikely events. For example, "What if all of us could feel each other's feelings?" 7) Intrapersonal: Enjoys being by himself/herself and thinking Activity: Provide opportunities for setting goals and charting progress toward these goals. Goals may be short-term ("List three things you'd like to learn today") or long-term ("What do you want to be doing ten years from now?"). 8) Verbal/linguistic: Enjoys storytelling, reading books Activity: Invent nicknames for well-known people that capture features that make the individuals unique. |
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