Learning Tips For Multiple Intelligences

We learn through all of the intelligence styles, but we have certain learning preferences that are stronger than others. Choose strategies that support your students strongest learning preference when helping them with homework or studying.
For Verbal/Linguistic Learners
These learners learn by saying, hearing and seeing words. They can easily memorize names, dates, places and trivia. To help verbal/linguistic learners:
Use descriptive language
Have them study by reading, writing, telling stories, playing word games and working with jokes and riddles
They are good at creating imaginary worlds
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For Logical/Mathematical Learners
These learners are adept at categorizing, classifying and working with abstract patterns and relationships. They work well with reasoning, numbers, abstractions, logic, problem-solving and moving from the concrete to the abstract.
Compare and contrast ideas
Create a timeline
Classify concepts/objects/materials
Read or design maps
Use a Venn diagram to explain
Teach using technology
For Bodily/Kinesthetic Learners
The brains motor cortex, which controls bodily motion, is the key to the intelligence of bodily/kinesthetic learners. These learners process knowledge through bodily sensations and need to touch, move and interact with space.
Create hands-on projects
Conduct hands-on experiments
Create human sculptures to illustrate situations
Reenact great moments from history
Make task or puzzle cards for
For Visual/Spatial Learners
Visual/spatial learners rely on their sense of sight and the ability to visualize an object. They create mental images and learn by drawing, building and designing. Encourage the use of color in their work.
Make a visual organizer or memory model of the material being learned
Graph the results of a survey or a course of study
Create posters or flyers
Create collages
Draw maps
Color-code the process of
For Musical/Rhythmic Learners
Musical/rhythmic learners recognize tonal patterns. For optimal learning, suggest that they hum or sing the information they want to grasp or have them move their bodies while they study.
Create raps (key dates, math and poems) or write new lyrics to a song so that it explains
Identify social issues through lyrics
Analyze different historical periods through their music
Make up sounds for different math operations or processes
Use music to enhance the learning of
For Interpersonal Learners
Person-to-person relationships and communication are necessary for interpersonal learners. They study and work best with others.
Analyze the relationships in a story
Review material/concepts/books orally
Discuss/debate controversial issues
Find relationships between objects, cultures and situations
Role-play a conversation with an important historical figure
Solve complex word problems in a group
Peer Tutor the subject being learned
For Intrapersonal Learners
Almost the exact opposite of interpersonal learners, intrapersonal learners thrive when working alone. Self-paced instruction and individualized projects work best with these students. Suggest that intrapersonal learners keep a daily journal, as their thoughts are directed inward. They have a great degree of self-understanding and they rely deeply on their instincts.
Keep a journal to demonstrate learning
Analyze historical personalities
Imagine being a character in history, a scientist discovering a cure or a mathematician working on a theory and describe or write about what you imagine to demonstrate learning
For Naturalist Learners
Naturalist learners observe and understand the organized patterns in the natural world. Provide them with visualization activities and hands-on activities that are based on nature. Bring the outdoors into their learning environment whenever possible. Study in ways that call on the naturalist learners abilities to measure, map and chart observations of plants and animals.
Sort and classify content in relation to the natural world
Interact with nature through field trips
Encourage learning in natural surroundings
Categorize facts about