Multiple Intelligences Chapter 1

In this chapter I learned more about my multiple intelligences. My main intelligence category is Interpersonal and my secondary intelligence category is Naturalistic. I learned from the chapter that people with strong interpersonal intelligence have the ability to perceive and make distinctions between there moods by evaluating their facial expressions and body language. I believe that this describes me very well because I have always been very receptive to the emotions of people around me. I also learned a lot about my secondary intelligence, naturalist. Naturalists can classify plants and animals and distinguish species from one another easily. Naturalists are also sensitive to weather patterns as well. I am not sure that I can predict the weather, but I always try to be prepared for whatever weather I will encounter that day. I love bird watching, gardening, and finding and identifying different species of animals and plants. When I initially found out about the naturalistic intelligence, I was extremely surprise to find that it was included on the list. I think I will be able to utilize both my intelligences by using my interpersonal empathic skill to identify students who are struggling, both with the material and in their personal life. I can also use my naturalistic intelligence to incorporate lessons in my content area, like trips to the field to do species identifications, lessons about ecology, and having class outside.  It was nice to learn more about all the other areas of intelligence from the chapter. I feel like I have more intelligence in some of the other categories than I previously thought.