A summary of a forum thread on the Multiple Intelligences and memorizing vocabulary - Unit 1 - Forum thread "Multiple Intelligences".

1. The Multiple Intelligences
&
Memorizing Vocabulary

2. When we teach, we should do our best to
cater for all our students' needs by providing
necessary materials and activities to suit their
different intelligences.
A blend of activities which cater for all
students' intelligences is the best strategy,
technique, teaching practice.
Teachers need to know how to create interest
and awareness among students and plan
activities or materials that cater for students'
intelligences and needs.

3. Verbal-Linguistic
Intelligence

4.  Using the words they have learned in dialogues
they create
Repeating the words over and over and over again
Creating poems
Creating and telling stories
Highlighting words
Rewriting

5. Logical-Mathematical
Intelligence

6.  Working with synonyms and antonyms
 Playing games like Scrabble, Scrabble
Junior, or Boggle
Searching for patterns – word families
Designing alphabetic and numeric codes
Putting information we receive into
categories and classifications that we create
Making up analogies

7. Visual-Spatial
Intelligence

8. Using videos
Using pictures
Using flashcards
Using pictorial models such as flow charts,
Venn diagrams, mind maps, spidergrams
Taking notes using concept mapping, mind
mapping, and clustering
Taking photographs
Drawing
Creating pictionaries

9. Musical
Intelligence

10.  Using songs
Working with jazz chants
Writing songs
Using rhythm and clapping
Remembering vocabulary words
by linking them to similar-sounding
words in our mind
Creating rhythms out of words

11. Bodily-Kinesthetic
Intelligence

12. Playing games such as hot seat
Building objects using blocks, cubes, or
Legos to represent words
Creating games to learn information

13. Interpersonal
Intelligence

14. Working in cooperative groups
Working in pairs
Interviewing people
Tutoring younger students or classmates
Discussing what we learn with a friend
or family member
Having someone quiz us before an exam
Creating or joining a study group

15. Intrapersonal
Intelligence

16. Writing reflective papers on
content-area topics.
 Keeping journals
Finding a place to study where we
won’t be interrupted
Keeping ourselves involved in
assignments by individualizing each
project

17. Naturalistic
Intelligence

18. Studying in a natural setting
Taking breaks to connect with
nature when studying

19. References
Clip & Save Checklist: Learning Activities That Connect With Multiple
Intelligences by Diane Connell -
 http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/clip-save-checklist-
learning-activities-connect-multiple-intelligences
Smart Study Strategies: Study Skills for 7 Intelligence Types by Jamie
Littlefield -
http://distancelearn.about.com/od/studyskills/a/studysmart.htm
Gardner's Theory on Multiple Intelligences and Study Techniques to
Maximize Each Intelligence by Sarah Ganly -
http://voices.yahoo.com/gardners-theory-multiple-intelligences-study-
5369465.html