Your Amazing Brain a.k.a. How Smart are You?

Why are some people better at things than others?  Practice  Brain Injury  Learning Disability  Culture/Upbringing  Others?

Creative & Analytical Brain YYour “creative” brain controls your creative, dreamy side YYour “analytical” brain controls your reasoning and problem solving side

Analytic vs. Creative Brains  Analytic Brain: Logic Reason Math Reading Language Looks at things in parts  Creative Brain Creativity Imagery Dreams Emotions Symbols Looks at the whole

One or the other?  Most people feel they are stronger in one or the other….  Which are you stronger at?  What percent?

Multiple Intelligences 9-Smart and 3-Smart

9-Smart  Psychologist Harold Gardner said there were 7 different kinds of intelligences  2 more were added recently to make 9 ways

9 Intelligences  Music Smart You think in sound and rhythm  Body Smart You are often in motion and excel in sports  People Smart You understand others well and make friends easily  Self Smart You understand yourself well and are comfortable with yourself

9 Intelligences  Picture Smart You think in pictures  Word Smart You think in words  Logic Smart You easily see connections between ideas  Nature Smart You relate to nature  Deep Smart You love deep, philosophical questions

Questions: 1. What “smarts” do you have? Are you surprised? 2. Ask your friend to look at your list and see if they are surprised… 3. Can you guess what type of intelligences your teacher has? What about your parents? 4. Identify a time where your smarts have helped you. 5. Identify a time when your difficulty in a “smarts” area challenged you.