COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL
What are the multiple intelligences?
Linguistic intelligence. A linguistically intelligent person is sensitive to words, the meaning of words, speaking and writing . They often excel at things like story and poetry writing, speech and debate, oral reports, reading, writing, and spelling. Can you think of a friend, classmate, or family member who displays linguistic intelligence?
What’s your intelligence type? linguistic musical logical/mathematical visual/spatial bodily/kinesthetic
Musical intelligence. A musically intelligent person has a heightened ability to hear tones, rhythm, musical patterns, and pitch and timbre . They often excel at or easily handle musical activities, sound mimicry, playing an instrument, music composition, writing lyrics, rhythms, sound patterns, singing, participating in choir, rap and rap lyric composition, sound editing and sound production. Can you think of a friend, classmate, or family member who displays musical intelligence? Logical/Mathematical intelligence. A person who is logically or mathematically intelligent is able to see relationships between objects, create and interpret data . They excel at creating and recognizing number patterns, sequence data, solving puzzles, making and using spreadsheets, creating computer programs, solving geometric problems, and making scientific predictions. Can you think of a friend, classmate, or family member who displays logical/mathematical intelligence? PRODUCT PREVIEW Visual/Spatial intelligence. Visually/spatially intelligent people are able to perceive and visualize objects . They often excel at art, in creating and using graphs, charts and patterns, painting, sketching, drawing. They excel at making visual representations of concepts, such as a map or a timeline of an historical event, video game graphics, CGI, building architecture and engineering. Can you think of a friend, classmate, or family member who displays visual/spatial intelligence? Bodily/Kinesthetic intelligence. People who are bodily/kinesthetically intelligent, excel at activities requiring body movement, physical action and control . They have excellent hand-eye coordination and dexterity. They excel at physical activities like athletics and dance, and also at constructing models, labs, sculpture, surgery, and other activities requiring good hand-eye coordination. Can you think of a friend, classmate, or family member who displays bodily/kinesthetic intelligence? Intrapersonal intelligence. Intrapersonally intelligent people connect with their inner feelings. They’re introspective, self-reflective and intuitive. They are perceptive. They are good at controlling their destiny because they are aware of their personal strengths and weaknesses. They make self-aware decisions. They do well on individual projects. Can you think of a friend, classmate, or family member who displays intrapersonal intelligence? intrapersonal interpersonal naturalistic
55
THE 21st CENTURY STUDENT’S GUIDE TO STUDY SKILLS
Made with FlippingBook Digital Publishing Software