The document provides information about a learning styles presentation given by Sally Dwelle and Hilary Williams. It includes details about the presentation such as discussing different learning styles like visual, auditory, and kinesthetic styles. It also discusses differentiated instruction and how teachers can modify their lessons to address different student characteristics like readiness, interest, and learning profiles. Examples of learning style activities are provided for a lesson on energy that incorporate different multiple intelligences.

1. Please complete a quick
learning style survey
online.
See Hilary or Sally to
get started.
http://www.petersons.com/education_planner/discoveri
=2859&articleName=Learning_Styles_Quiz

2. Learning Styles
Lunch and Learn
Davis Elementary
March 24, 2009
Sally Dwelle and Hilary Williams

3. What are different learning styles?
How does my child learn best?
How can I help my child use his or
her learning style to maximize
learning potential?

4. What is Differentiation?
Differentiation can be defined as a way
of teaching in which teachers proactively
modify curriculum, teaching methods,
resources, learning activities, and
student products to address the needs
of individual students and/or small
groups of students to maximize the
learning opportunity for each student in
the classroom.
Tomlinson, C.,At Work in the Differentiated Classroom, 103.

5. Differentiated Instruction:
The Big Picture
3 Curricular
Elements
• Content
3 Student
Characteristics
• Readiness level
• Process
• Interest level
• Product
• Learning profile
– What students
should know
– What students
should understand
– What students
should be able to do
– Skills and understanding
of a topic
– Tasks that ignite student
curiosity or passion
– Preferred learning
style of each
student

6. What are Learning Styles?
Learning Styles are simply different
approaches or ways of learning.

7. What are the types of
Learning Styles?
• Visual
• Auditory
• Kinesthetic/Tactile

8. Auditory Learners
learn through listening…
• Verbal lectures, discussions, talking things
through
• To tone of voice, pitch, speed and other
nuances.
• So written information may have little
meaning until it is heard. These learners often
benefit from reading text aloud and using a
tape recorder.

10. Visual Learners
learn through seeing…
• Need to see the teacher's body language
and facial expression.
• Tend to prefer sitting at the front of the
classroom
• May think in pictures and learn best from
visual displays
• Prefer to take detailed notes during lecture
or classroom discussion to absorb the
information.

12. Kinesthetic/Tactile Learners
learn through moving, doing,
and touching…
•Tactile/Kinesthetic persons learn best through
a hands-on approach, actively exploring the
physical world around them.
•They may find it hard to sit still for long
periods and may become distracted by their
need for activity and exploration.

14. Sorting Activity

16. How are
you smart?

17. What is Multiple Intelligence?
Different ways to
demonstrate intellectual
ability.

18. What are the types of
Multiple Intelligence?
Linguistic intelligence
("word smart")
Logical-mathematical intelligence
("number/reasoning smart")
Spatial intelligence
("picture smart")
Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence
smart")
("body

19. Musical intelligence
("music smart")
Interpersonal intelligence
("people smart")
Intrapersonal intelligence
("self smart")
Naturalist intelligence
("nature smart")

20. Concept Songs
Continents
Mixed Numbers

22. Multiple Intelligences Lesson Plans
“Choosies”
Subject: Energy
GPS: Students will identify sources energy and how energy is used
BK
What Am I?
Create an energy
riddle using a flip
book:
1. Decide the type
of energy (heat,
light, motion) and
the source.
2. Write 3 to 4
clues about your
energy source.
3. Draw a picture
and answer your
riddle on the last
page.
INTRA
VL
LM
VS
Create a nonfiction book about
energy. Make sure
to include a table
of contents and
page numbers. You
can also choose to
include a glossary.
Create a machine
that uses solar
energy to work.
Draw a picture of
your machine, label
the parts, and
write 3 to 5
sentences about
how your machine
works.
Create a marble
painting. Write a
story about a day
in the life of a
marble.
N
INTER
What would it be
like if you had to
live without
electricity? What
other sources of
energy would you
have to use?
Create a poster on
ways to save
energy.
With a partner,
create a tree map
of man-made and
natural sources of
energy.
M
Create an acrostic
using the letters in
the word ENERGY
Draw a picture of
you using other
sources of energy.
List the sources of
energy you used on
the back of your
paper.
E
N
E
R
G
Y
BK- Bodily Kinesthetic, VL- Verbal Linguistic, LM- Logical Mathematical,
VS- Visual Spatial, INTRA- Intrapersonal, N- Naturalist, INTER- Interpersonal,
M- Musical Rhythmic

23. BK
What Am I?
Create an energy riddle using a flip
book:
1. Decide the type of energy (heat,
light, motion) and the source.
2. Write 3 to 4 clues about your
energy source.
3. Draw a picture and answer your
riddle on the last page.

24. VL
Create a non-fiction book about
energy. Make sure to include a table
of contents and page numbers. You
can also choose to include a
glossary.

25. LM
Create a machine that uses solar
energy to work. Draw a picture of
your machine, label the parts, and
write 3 to 5 sentences about how
your machine works.

26. VS
Create a marble painting. Write a
story about a day in the life of a
marble.

27. INTRA
What would it be like if you
had to live without electricity?
What other sources of energy would
you have to use?
Draw a picture of you using other
sources of energy. List the sources
of energy you used on the back of
your paper.

28. N
Create a poster on ways to save
energy.

29. INTER
With a partner, create a tree map
of man-made and natural sources of
energy.

30. M
Create an acrostic using the letters
in the word ENERGY
E
N
E
R
G
Y

32. Thinking Points…
For which learning style(s) did our
presentation today appeal? Explain
your answer.
How can you help your child use his
or her learning style(s) to maximize
learning potential?
And to sum it up…