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Building Strong Learners
Families Learning Together With Multiple Intelligence Activities
Ivy Drive School
January 2007
Welcome to Family Night!
Agenda
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Explore different ways we ALL are SMART
Learn about multiple intelligences
Complete a multiple intelligence assessment
Experience each of the different intelligences
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It’s NOT “How smart you are,”
but rather,
“How you are smart.”
(Walter McKenzie)
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Constant Flow of New Information
 How The Brain Operates
 How The Brain Differs in Function Between
Genders
 How Emotions Impact On Intellectual Acuity
 How Genetics and Environment Impact Our
Children’s Cognitive Abilities
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Frames Of Mind (1983)
Howard Gardner, Harvard University
INTELLIGENCE IS:
 The ability to create an effective product or offer a service
that is valued in a culture;
 A set of skills that make it possible for a person to solve
problems in life;
 The potential for finding or creating solutions for problems,
which involves gathering new knowledge.
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Howard Gardner
Identified Different KINDS of Intelligence
 Visual/Spatial
 Verbal/Linguistic
 Mathematical/Logical
 Bodily/Kinesthetic
 Musical/Rhythmic
 Intrapersonal
 Interpersonal
 Naturalist
 Existential
 And there may be MORE!
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Why Is Knowing About Your Multiple
Intelligences Important?
 Build on your strengths.
 When you use your stronger intelligences, you are
more likely to learn, use, and remember new
concepts and skills.
 It’s FUN to learn in a variety of ways that meet your
own individual learning styles.
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Multiple Intelligence Assessment
 Answer the questions for each member of your
family.
 Add Up the totals in each column
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Verbal/Linguistic (Word Smart)
 Learning through the spoken and written word.
 This intelligence was always valued in the traditional
classroom and in traditional assessments of intelligence
and achievement.
 Examples:
– Play word games (e.g., Scrabble, Crossword Puzzles, Wheel of
Fortune, Hangman)
– Read a book or story
– Write a poem or create a riddle for someone else to answer.
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Verbal/Linguistic Activity
 Joint Story Telling
– With your family, choose one person to say the first word of the
story. The next person says the next word of the story. Continue until
everyone has a turn adding a word. Follow the pattern, with each
member of the family adding one word a time to the story, until your
family has told an entire story.
– The goal is to create a story that:
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has a beginning, middle, and end.
has at least two characters.
describes the setting
has a problem
solves the problem
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Bodily/Kinesthetic (Body Smart)
 Learning through interaction with one’s environment.
 It promotes understanding through concrete experiences.
 Examples:
– Play games that require physical movement (e.g., Twister,
Charades)
– Learn a new dance
– Learn sign language
– Exercise (e.g., dancing, jogging, biking, jump rope) or join a sport or
team (e.g., bowling, softball, basketball)
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Bodily/Kinesthetic Activity
 Make the letters of the Alphabet with your body.
– Use Letter Song from “Letter Sounds” by Rock ‘n Learn
www.rocknlearn.com
 Challenge
– Think of a 3 letter word and spell it for your partner
family. See if you can guess each other’s word.
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Visual/Spatial (Picture Smart)
 Learning visually and organizing ideas spatially.
 Seeing concepts in action in order to understand them.
 The ability to “see” things in one’s mind in planning to
create a product or solve a problem.
 Examples:
– Play games and puzzles that require the use of visual skills (e.g.,
Pictionary, mazes, tangrams, jigsaw puzzles, rubik’s cubes)
– Write a story and illustrate it
– Design a poster or greeting card
– Take pictures and use the computer to print them
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Visual/Spatial Activity
 Vocabulary Charades
– Find a partner family
– Decide which family will act out the word and which
family will guess the word.
– Each time the other family can guess the word in one
minute, your team gets a point.
– We will play 5 rounds. See if your family team can get all
five points.
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Vocabulary Words
 Drawbridge
 Chimpanzee
 Parade
 Karaoke
 Binoculars
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Mathematical/Logical (Logic Smart)
 Learning Through Reasoning and problem-solving.
 Also highly valued in the traditional classroom, where
students were asked to adapt to logically sequenced
delivery of instruction.
 Examples:
– Play logic games (e.g., checkers, chess, tic-tac-toe, Monopoly,
Battleship, Clue, Jeopardy)
– Play “guess the pattern” (e.g., a sequence of numbers, grouping of
objects, list of people or places)
– Solve mathematical equations and open-ended word problems
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Mathematical/Logical Activity
 Number Line
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5 + 3 = _____
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4 + 6 = _____
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9 - 2 = _____
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12 - 3 = _____
7 - 3 + 4 = _____
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Musical/Rhythmic (Music Smart)
 Learning through patterns, rhythms, and music.
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Play music recognition games (e.g., Name that Tune)
Learn how to play an instrument
Hum, sing, or tap while you work or think
Listen to music
Sing
Write your own song
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Musical/Rhythmic Activity
 Country Line Dance to Multiplication Song
– “Multiplication Country” by Rock ‘n Learn
www.rocknlearn.com
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Naturalist (Nature Smart)
 Learning through classification, categories, and hierarchies.
 It is not simply the study of nature; it can be used in all
areas of study.
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Get a kit and build your own ant or worm farm
Go to a farmers’ market to buy fruits, vegetables, or flowers
Take care of your pet
Read books about animals
Collect rocks or shells
Start a recycling program in your home
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Naturalist Activity
 Star Gazing
– The BIG DIPPER
– When you leave tonight, see if they can see find the Big
Dipper in the sky.
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Interpersonal (People Smart)
 Learning through interaction with others.
 This intelligence promotes collaboration and working
cooperatively with others.
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Communication games (e.g., Gossip, Joint Storytelling)
Working together on a group project
Team sports
Play in the band or sing in the chorus
Guessing games (e.g., What’s My Line, “I’ve got a Secret,” “Twenty
Questions).
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Interpersonal Activity
 Don’t Spill The Beans!
– Make a circle with your partner family.
– Practice passing one bean bag around the circle.
– Practice tossing the bean bag from person to person, until everyone
has had a turn to throw and catch the bean bag. When the last
person gets the bean bag, he/she tosses it to the first person, and
the pattern is repeated.
– CHALLENGE
• Pass one bean bag around the circle. Keep it going.
• Pass the other bean bag around the circle using the pattern. Try to keep
the bean bags moving, without dropping them and without stopping.
• How long can you keep both bean bags moving?
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Intrapersonal (Self Smart)
 Learning through feelings, values, and attitudes.
 Students place value on what they learn.
 Students take ownership, pride, and responsibility for their
learning.
 Self-reflection and analysis of who you are and what is
important to you.
 Examples:
– Keep a journal
– Set goals for yourself and evaluate how you are doing on a regular
basis
– Think about your day (e.g., what worked well, what did you learn)
– Take a survey or answer a questionnaire to find out more about
yourself
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Intrapersonal Activity
 Multiple Intelligence Self-reflection
1. Which activities did you like best? Why?
2. Which activities did you like least? Why?
3. Is there a relationship between the activities that you
like or didn’t like best, and your stronger and weaker
intelligences?
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Homework
 Select an activity for each of the
intelligences
 Complete the activity as a family
and record the activity and date
it was completed on your
homework page
 Decide which activity your family
enjoyed doing best and why.
 Family members sign the page
and bring it back at our next
session for a chance to win a
prize.
 Make sure to fill out one paper
for each child!
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Musical
Visual/
Spatial
Naturalistic
Intrapersonal
Free Choice
Interpersonal
Logical/
Bodily/
Mathematical Kinesthetic
Verbal/
Linguistic
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Remember the dates on the
school calendar are correct!
 3rd through 5th grade parents and children meet on
Tuesday Nights
 Kindergarten through 2nd Grade parents and
children meet on Wednesday Nights
 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
 Ivy Drive School Gym
Hope to see you next time!
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