1. Learning Inventories
How Do You Like to Learn?

2. What is a Learning Inventory?
A Learning Inventory is a way to find out how each of us learns best.
A man named Howard Gardner said we have 8 different “smarts.”
We can have multiple “smarts.” Some are stronger than others, and we might have different “smarts” than our friends have. Everyone is different.

3. 8 Kinds of Smart Word Smart Math Smart Music Smart Body Smart
Nature Smart
Self Smart
People Smart
Art Smart

4. Word Smart
You like to:
Read and write
Tell stories
Talk about things

5. Math Smart You like to: Work with numbers Solve problems
Ask HOW and WHY things work the way they do

6. Music Smart You like to: Listen to music
Sing, hum, or play an instrument
Clap or tap your foot to rhythms

7. Body Smart
You like to:
Play sports
Do gymnastics
Dance
Move around

8. Nature Smart
You like:
Plants
Animals
Being outside

9. Self Smart You are good at: Knowing a lot about yourself
Being by yourself
Knowing what you are good at, and what you need to work on

10. People Smart You like to: Make friends Work in a group
Be around people

11. Art Smart
You like to:
Draw
Paint
Take pictures

12. Here is a short video to help us remember the 8 different types of smart.

13. Let’s See How We Learn Best!
Below are 2 links that will help us discover how we learn best. I will hand out printed out versions of them to each of you.
We will read the questions together, but answer them separately according to if we like to do the activity or not.  

14. What Do My Answers Mean?
At the bottom of our 2nd quiz we took, it explains what our answers mean.
We will go over our answers together as a class, and discuss how we can use our “smarts” to help us learn better.

15. Check for Understanding
Any questions about the activities/quizzes we completed?
What did you like about the quizzes? What did you dislike about them?
Are you ready to put your “smarts” to the test?

16. References http://www.epacha.org/Pages/International_Literacy_Day.aspx