Lessons That Appeal to Multiple Intelligences
Check out these lessons that are geared to different learning types and
multiple intelligences.
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Left Brain-Right Brain: Lesson to help students understand the two
brain hemispheres and how to improve their drawing ability by their new
understanding.
Brain Hemispheres
Left Brain/Right Brain: Lesson Formats on the topic of the Great
Depression. These lessons take students' individual learning styles in
consideration.
Left Brain-Right Brain
Multiple Intelligences: Lesson that incoporates all eight
intelligences. Students are divided into eight different groups and assigned
an activity relating to their Group's assigned Intelligence. (10th Grade
Geometry)
Geometric Shapes
Multiple Intelligences: Excellent lesson that contains different
types of activities that reach students and their learning style differences.
Multiple Intelligence Lessons
Learning Styles: A lesson that teaches students about different kinds
of tropical storms throughout the world. They learn about how the storms are
different, how they are similar, and how they are distributed throughout the
world. They study specific storms in detail and create class presentations
about them.
Sister Storm
Learning Styles: Interesting lesson on bridges. Incorporates
different learning style activities. Includes as a challenge, interactive
bridge building websites.
Famous Bridges
Constructivism: Martian Real Estate: A Good Investment?- This lesson
plan takes the students through different stages of learning. They are
then asked to discuss their research findings and apply their new knowledge
to additional extensions activities.
Martian Real Estate
Constructivism: "A Multidisciplinary WebQuest
Problem-Solving and Information Compilation WebQuest on Chocolate Adaptable
to Grades Five through Eight. The goal is for students to explore the
history and manufacture of chocolate through inquiry learning, and to share
knowledge with others via export to website or portfolio creation."
Chocolate Quest
Cooperative Learning �A cooperative group estimation activity.
Students gather information about pumpkins and then record, predict and
estimate data results.
Pumpkin Exploration
Collaborative Learning: A collaborative lesson that engages K-12
students in a global study of seasonal wildlife migration. Students
actually track the movements of specific wildlife species during seasonal
changes.
Journey North
Collaborative Learning: "The premise is that the students' own
community has been stricken by a drought. Students collaborate with one
another in groups of five, taking on differing roles, to solve the problem
of how to stretch the existing water in their communities. Their goal is to
make the water last about three times longer than it would otherwise."
Drought
Adult Education: A self-directed lesson that helps adult learners to
understand algebraic relationships using the real-life situation: coins in
in your "pocket."
Pocket Change
Adult Education: This lesson helps adult students compare and contrast the
early migration and immigration experiences faced by three different
cultural groups: Native Americans, African Americans, and the British
colonists.
Migration and Immigration
Differentiated Learning: "The student will select a method of
showing and sharing understanding of a topic with classmates by rolling the
paper cube dice and choosing one activity. The student then produces the
activity and demonstrates and shares it with the class."
Differentiated Learning Lesson
Interested in how people learn? Check out this link to information on
twelve learning theories examining different ways people learn.
Funderstanding
A Matrix of Learning Theories and Instructional Strategies
Learning Theories and Instructional Strategies
A detailed explanantion of Multiple Intelligences
Multiple Intelligences