1. Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner (Seven) Plus One
Extend the definition of intelligence
Intelligence has to do with solving problems and fashioning products in a context–rich and natural setting
Intelligence: “The ability to solve a problem or create a product that is valued in at least one culture or community.”

2. Linguistic:
Linguistic Intelligence: The capacity to use words effectively, whether orally (e.g., as a storyteller) or in writing (e.g., as a poet or journalist). This intelligence includes the ability to use language to convince others, to remember information and to explain ideas and understandings.

3. Linguistic Written description of investigations Journal entries
Audio cassette recordings
Letters
Essays
Reports
Reading logs
Different domains of writing
Anecdotal records
Evaluation of oral language presentations
Student profile

4. Logical/Mathematical
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence: The capacity to use numbers effectively (e.g., as a mathematician or accountant) and to reason well (e.g., as a scientist or computer programmer). Logical-mathematical intelligence is called upon for activities involving categorization, classification, inference, generalization, calculation, and hypothesis testing.

5. Logical-Mathematical
Graphic representations
Diagrams of problem solving process
Checklists
Traditional tests—variety of formats
Worksheets
Charts
Skill checklists
Problem solving

6. Spatial
Spatial Intelligence: The ability to perceive the visual-spatial world accurately (e.g., having a strong sense of location and direction) and to perform transformations upon those perceptions (e.g., as an interior decorator, architect, or artist). It includes the capacity to visualize and to graphically represent visual or spatial ideas.

7. Spatial Graphic Organizer Puzzles Picture cards Photos
Any and all artistic representations
“Learning Quilts”
Visualization Drawing
Videos/Slide shows
Drawings

8. Musical
Musical Intelligence: The capacity to perceive, discriminate, transform (e.g., as a composer), and express (e.g., as a performer) musical forms. This intelligence includes sensitivity to the rhythm, melody, and timbre of a musical piece. One can have an intuitive understanding of music, a formal understanding, or both.

9. Musical Songs, raps, jingles, chants (student written and performed)
Poems
Limericks
Riddles

10. Bodily/Kinesthetic
Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence: The ability to use one's whole body to express ideas and feelings (e.g., as an actor, an athlete, or a dancer) and the facility to use one's hands to produce or transform things (e.g., as a craftsperson, mechanic, or surgeon). This intelligence includes skills, such as coordination, balance, dexterity, strength, flexibility, and speed.

11. Bodily-Kinesthetic Video of plays Readers theatre Role-playing
Games designed by students
All whole-body activities

12. Interpersonal
Interpersonal Intelligence: The ability to perceive the moods, intentions, motivations, and feelings of other people. This can include sensitivity to many different kinds of interpersonal cues; and the ability to respond to those cues in some useful way (e.g., to influence a group of people).

13. Interpersonal
Photos or videos of students working in cooperative learning groups
Recording of group discussions
Projects that show student’s “Group Smart”
Group Reports

14. Intrapersonal
Intrapersonal Intelligence: Self-knowledge and the ability to act on the basis of that knowledge. This intelligence includes having an accurate picture of one's strengths and limitations and the capacity for self-discipline, self-understanding, and self-esteem.

15. Intrapersonal Evidence of self-reflection and self-knowledge
Journal entries
Imagery drawings
Questionnaires on attitudes toward a particular assignment or content area

16. Naturalist + One
Students learn best when all that is to be learned is connected to nature, the real world, and their cultural context

17. Naturalist Observations journals Collections Classification system
Scrapbook
All assignments which connect the concept/skill to be learned to nature, the real world, and their cultural context