In fourth grade we are looking at Howard Gardner’s idea that there are many different ways to be intelligent. The kids took a survey to see how they are smart. The kids are now going to do a research project on a person, place or thing that connects to their intelligence. Below is a chart showing what the kids have brainstormed so far. We would love your help! Can you help us think of examples? Your ideas could lead us to learn and research something new!
The intelligences are: Interpersonal (people smart), Intrapersonal (me smart), Naturalistic (nature smart), Bodily-Kinesthetic (body smart), Logical/Mathematical (number smart), Linguistic (language smart), Musical (music smart), Visual Spatial (picture smart). Please add a comment to help us think of famous examples that fit each intelligence. It could be a famous person, invention, concept, art piece, etc.
If you want to see how you fit into the multiple intelligences, click the link below.
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Visual Spatial: Ansel Adams
Bodily-Kinesthetic: Pyramids
The Thinker
The Thinker was supposed to be in Bodily-Kinesthetic.
For Visual Spatial–Picasso.
For Naturalistic–John Audubon.
For Linguistics–Most Europeans who learn to speak more than one language as children.
For Interpersonal, Oprah Winfrey, and for Intrapersonal, Freud.
For Logical/Mathematical –The Incas who built Machu Pichu.
For Musical–Neil Diamond
Fourth Grade GT,
For nature, Thoreau comes to mind. He studied nature and developed an appreciation of the interconnectedness between nature and spirit.
For musical, I agree with Mrs. Storer for Neil Diamond. I’d like to add Barbara Streisand, too. They once sang a duet together and when you listen to their dual harmony, you can feel the power of their emotions.
For bodily-kinesthetic, I think of the singer Usher. He connects his musicality to body movements perfectly. I am amazed at the way Usher and Justin Bieber were able to synchronize their voices and bodies at the Grammies on Sunday.
I also look to many great quarterbacks for bodily-kinesthetic. They need to read the football field and react mathematically to the motion on the ground. I heard Brett Favre interviewed once and he said, “the football field appears fast to others, but I see it in slow motion.”
Enjoy your projects,
Mrs. Kistler
I think that all of us are good at something, but some are not as good at other things we are all unique
Interpersonal – Barbara Walters, Tom Brokaw – reporters
Intrapersonal – Psychologists, Authors of memoirs
Naturalistic – Jane Goodall, Jacques Costeau
Bodily-Kinesthetic – Olympic Athletes
Logical/Mathematical – Bill Gates, Steve Jobs
Linguistic – ???
Musical – Mozart, Hams Zimmer
Visual Spatial – Frank Lloyd Wright
Logical/Mathematical: slide rule
Musical: Bach
Linguistic: JK Rowlings
Linguistic – Abraham Lincoln or Barack Obama
Logical/Math – John Dewey
Visual – Frank Lloyd Wright
Musical – Justin Beiber
Bodily/Kines – Michael Jordan, Selena Gomez
Inter – Oprah
Intra – Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerburg (Facebook)
Natural – Darwin
Visual – Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo
Naturalistic – Pangaea (the origin of continents)
Bodily-Kinesthetic – Dancers from Cirque du Soleil
Logical/Mathmatical – IPhone
Linguistic – Parrot
Musical – the “song” of Humpback Whales
Interpersonal – Bill Cosby
Musical- John Williams (writes music for movies like ET, Jaws, Star Wars, Harry Potter)
Naturalistic & Visual – Georgia O’Keefe – some of her most famous works of art deal with things in nature like flowers, animals, desert landscape
Logical Mathmatical/ Musical – Composers of that work in a musical system called the 12 Tone series- very mathmatical and yet musical
Logical Mathmatical – Alton Brown the chef- he can make the science & math of cooking very fun
Bodily Kinesthetic – Leonardo Da Vinci mixed Visual with his study of the human body
Naturalistic – Botanical Gardens, Zoos, Zoologists, Beekeepers, Gardeners
Visual Spatial – Eifel Tower, Gaudi Buildings
Musical – Louis Armstrong, Symphony Orchestras, Broadway
Linguistic – Maya Angelou
This is so interesting. I took the test myself to see in what areas of intelligence I am stronger. I am from Alaska and knew your teacher when we were students.
Musical: Beethoven who lost his hearing
Bodily Kinesthetic: Helen Keller
Linguistic: Anne Frank
Interpersonal: Mothers
Musical:Neil Diamond
Linguistic:Rick Riordan
Interpersonal:Family Members
Naturalistic:Zookeepers, Animal Scientists
Visual Spatial:Picasso
Logical/Mathamatical:FIBonacci
Intrapersonal:The Thinker
I love learning about the multiple intelligences!I can’t wait to see what else we’re going to learn about, if it is going to be as fun as multiple intelligences!!!
For Interpersonal-Mother Teresa