1. Multiple Intelligences
It’s not whether you’re intelligent; it’s HOW you’re intelligent.

2. Multiple Intelligences Quiz
On a sheet of paper, write out the words “Section 1,” “Section 2,” etc. through “Section 9.” Make sure to leave a line or two below each section title.
Using the Multiple Intelligences Inventory, mark a tally for each statement in each section that applies to you. Once you’ve gone through each section, count up the number of tallies you have for each section and write it next to the section number.
Put a star (*) next to your top 3 sections and put a pound sign (#) next to your bottom 3 sections.

3. Multiple Intelligences Quiz - Continued
Section 1 – Naturalistic
Section 2 – Musical
Section 3 – Logical
Section 4 – Existential
Section 5 – Interpersonal
Section 6 – Kinesthetic
Section 7 – Verbal
Section 8 – Intrapersonal
Section 9 – Visual

4. Discuss the following questions with your new group:
What does it mean to be intelligent in our society?
What abilities do schools tend to value and promote?
How do we measure a person’s intelligence?
Think about these questions individually AND in terms of “grit” from last period.

5. Multiple Intelligences
Traditional Definition: the capacity and demonstration of the capacity to learn, understand, and reason
So... What does that mean?

7. The Theory of multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner’s theory, developed in 1983, that proposes people are not born with all of the types of intelligence they will ever have.
Intelligence can be learned throughout life (remember, growth mindset?)
Everyone is intelligent in at least seven different ways and can develop each aspect of intelligence to an average level of competency
Intelligence is, then, the ability to solve problems or fashion products that are valuable in one or more cultural setting.

8. It’s not how smart you are...
It’s how you are smart!
Think about some of your own strengths. In what ways are you smart?

9. Multiple Intelligences

10. Can you define intelligence for...
Walt Disney?

11. Can you define intelligence for...
Stephen Curry?

12. Can you define intelligence for...
Melissa McCarthy?

13. Can you define intelligence for...
Missy Elliott?

14. Famous People with Linguistic Intelligence
William Shakespeare
Edgar Allen Poe
Ernest Hemmingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Emily Dickinson
Agatha Christie
T.S. Eliot
Rudyard Kipling
JK Rowling

15. Famous People with mathematic intelligence
Einstein
Pythagoras
Newton
Pascal
Archimedes
Euclid
Copernicus
Plato
Galileo
Aristotle

16. Famous people with kinesthetic Intelligence
Isadora Duncan
Cincinnatus
Fabergè
Wilbur Wright
Orville Wright
Babe Ruth
Jim Thorpe
Kristi Yamaguchi
Mickey Mantle
Thomas Edison

17. Famous People with spatial intelligence
Ansel Adams (photographer)
Amelia Earhart
Auguste Rodin (sculptor)
Robert Fulton (inventor)
Michelangelo
Leonardo Da Vinci
Pablo Picasso
Spike Lee
Vincent Van Gogh
Frank Lloyd Wright (architect)
Steven Spielberg

18. Famous people with musical intelligence
Joan Baez
Zubin Mehta
Ethel Merman
Jean Redpath
Gustav Mahler
Leonard Bernstein
Ella Fitzgerald
Jenny Lind
Stephen Foster
Antonio Stradivari
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ray Charles
Robert Schumann
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Yehudi Menuhin
Willie Nelson
The Mavericks
Lawrence Welk
George Gershwin
Selena Quintanilla

19. Famous People with interpersonal intelligence
Abraham Lincoln      
George Washington       
Ghandi
Dr.Joyce Brothers     
Oprah  Winfrey      
Jesse  Jackson
Martin Luther King Jr  
Rev. Billy Graham

20. Famous people with intrapersonal intelligence
* Aristotle
* Emily Dickinson
* General George Patton
* Helen Keller
* Malcolm X

21. Famous people with naturalist intelligence
Charles Darwin
Viktor Schauberger
Gerald Durrell

22. Famous People with existential intelligence
Friedrich Nietzsche
Soren Kierkegaard
Martin Heidegger
Karl Jaspers
Jean-Paul Sartre
Albert Camus
Simone de Beauvoir

23. Answer the following questions in one paragraph:
-To whom on the previous list do you most relate? Why?
-What type of intelligence best suits you? Why?
-What are some of your strengths because of this type of intelligence?
-What are some weaknesses you might need to overcome? How can you do that?

24. Now, let’s add on. Answer each of the following questions in its own paragraph:
P2 - Where are you with life right now? Think both personally and academically when answering this question.
P3 - What type of student are you aiming to be this school year? Be specific!
P4 - Set 2-3 goals: two must be academic, one can be personal. Why are these goals important to you?