Wednesday, September 11, 2013

MI Chapter 4

If I did decide to explain the concept of multiple intelligences to my students, I would want to provide examples to aid their comprehension.  In this chapter I found multiple ways that you could present the information for the students to research.  I liked the strategy of having the students do a project to research the biographies of famous people in their intelligences and how they used their intelligences to change the world and make a difference. One of my intelligences is naturalist, and I would LOVE to do a project on Jane Goodall and learn about how she used her intelligences to study the social and family behaviors in chimpanzees. I think it would also be very interesting to find out how Martin Luther King Jr. used his interpersonal skills to spark the civil rights movement. I would also like to decorate my classroom for the unit with posters of the 8 intelligences, as suggested to be paired with the biographies.

                I believe that all 8 intelligences could be used in my content area. I would like to challenge my students to figure out how each of the intelligences would be an important skill for a scientist to have, and maybe have them work in partners to come up an answer to that question.  Some of the harder ones to relate to science would probably be verbal, musical, and intrapersonal. Some examples for these are that verbal is important because of science articles and readings, musical would be songs about science like in Bill Nye the Science Guy, and Intrapersonal  is important so they reflect on their scientific process and understanding.

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