Beacon Lesson Plan Library
What's Your Style?
Amanda Yates
Polk County Schools
Description
Students learn about the 7 multiple intelligences and take an inventory to discover their intelligence learning styles. Students then brainstorm to create activities that utilize their intelligences.
Standards
Florida Sunshine State Standards
LA.B.1.4.1
The student selects and uses appropriate pre-writing strategies, such as brainstorming, graphic organizers, and outlines.
Materials
- Copies for each student of the abbreviated Multiple Intelligences Inventory (see the attached file)
- Gardner's Multiple Intelligences notes (see attached file)
- Overhead transparency/overhead or board
Preparations
1. Print out the rubric and the student inventory from the attached file and make copies for each student.
2. Make sure you have overhead transparencies or a board to use to give notes about the 7 Multiple Intelligences.
3. Go to the Internet and print out information on Howard Gardner's 7 theories of Multiple Intelligences to use in step 2. There are many sites available online which have this information.
Procedures
1. Give the students the Multiple Intelligences Inventory (find this in the attached file).
2. Tell the students to follow the directions on the inventory.
3. Observe students and then help them tally their results.
4. Tell the students to write down their results because you are going to explain what the results mean.
5. Introduce students to the 7 Multiple Intelligences.
6. Give examples of the different styles of teaching for each learning style.
Example: If your learning style is Verbal/Linguistic, you would probably learn definitions best by listening to them repeated on a tape.
7. Have the students get into groups, based upon their learning style (all the Kinesthetic students in one group, etc.)
8. Now, tell the students that their job is to think (brainstorm) about and come up with an activity that could be used for teaching their learning style. They need to list the name of the activity and the steps to follow to conduct the activity. Give them a specific subject to write the activity for (example: addition). Give them the example of using candies to work addition problems. Explain to them that that would be using the kinesthetic intelligence because they would be using their hands and sense of touch.
9. Walk around the room and help students as they work.
10. Collect. Use the rubric in the attachment files to check students'
activities.
11. Give positive/corrective feedback and a chance for students to redo the assignment until mastery is obtained. Check to make sure that students' acitivities line up with the subject that they are going to teach.
Assessments
Score the students' inventories and give a verbal summary to the students about their personal multiple intelligences. Assess students as they brainstorm activities that could be used with the lesson plans for the 7 mulitple intelligences by using the rubric (located in the attached files).
Extensions
1. Students can brainstorm and write an activity for a different learning style.
2. Students can share the activity they create with the class.
3. For ESOL/ESE students, the students could discuss a learning style each week and then participate in an activity that uses that learning style.
4. If you wanted to use this lesson in more of an "artsy" way, you could have students develop lesson plans as an extension (this would cover SSS VAB1.4.1).
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