1. Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences Thus far Gardner's work suggests nine intelligences. He speculates that there may be many more yet to be identified. Time will tell. These are the paths to children's learning teachers can address in their classrooms right now.

2. VERBAL/LINGUISTIC – These children demonstrate strength in the language arts: speaking, writing, reading, listening. These students have always been successful in traditional classrooms because their intelligence lends itself to traditional teaching. Verbal /Linguistic word smart

3. Verbal/Linguistic Book Smart Books on Tape Blogs Interactive journals Mad Libs Fill in interactive forms with parts of speech to create wacky stories Create your own crossword www.puzzlemaker.com www.puzzlemaker.com www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com Play Scrabble on line www.scrabble.com www.scrabble.com GAMES: Scrabble, Boggle, Outburst, Scattergories, Trivial Pursuit, Upwards

4. MATHEMATICAL/LOGICAL - children who display an aptitude for numbers, reasoning and problem solving. This is the other half of the children who typically do well in traditional classrooms where teaching is logically sequenced and students are asked to conform..

5. Logical/mathematical Numbers reasoning smart Math Mania http://csr.uvic.ca/!mmaniahttp://csr.uvic.ca/!mmania work on unsolved problems in mathematics Mathematics Archives http://archives.math.utk.eduhttp://archives.math.utk.edu www.msichicago.org Virtual Visits Museum of Science and Industry Popular Science Online www.popsci.comwww.popsci.com Science Magazine on line http://sciencemag.orghttp://sciencemag.org GAMES: Bingo, Clue, Connect Four, Yahtzee Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

6. VISUAL/SPATIAL – children who learn best visually and organizing things spatially. They like to see what you are talking about in order to understand. They enjoy charts, graphs, maps, tables, illustrations, art, puzzles, costumes -anything eye catching.

7. Visual/Spatial Picture smart Clip art photography www.kodak.comwww.kodak.com Cinemania http://cinemania.msn.comhttp://cinemania.msn.com Reviews the latest film releases, interviews, polls Artist’s resource www.number9.com databases onwww.number9.com artists and how to display one’s art work on the site Computer software: Tetris, 3D Home Architect, Adobe Photo, VideoWave GAMES: TicTacToe, Battleship, Pictionary, Stratego

8. BODILY/KINESTHETIC - children who experience learning best through activity: games, movement, hands-on tasks, building. These children were often labeled "overly active" in traditional classrooms where they were told to sit and be still!

9. Bodily/Kinesthetic Body smart TPR Total Physical Response method (Blaine Ray) activities where students move around the room Computer software: Active Software, Flight Simulator, arcade games, sports software, Legos Science Toolkit GAMES: Guesstures, Jenga, Twister TPR

10. INTRAPERSONAL - children who are especially in touch with their own feelings, values and ideas. They may tend to be more reserved, but they are actually quite intuitive about what they learn and how it relates to themselves.

11. Intrapersonal People smart Association for the Study of Dreams www.ASDreams.org Focusing Institute www.focusing.orgwww.focusing.org activities where students discuss and respond to how they learn best Computer software: What color is your parachute? Career Finder, Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover, Emotional IQ test, Personality Test, Myst, Riven GAMES: Careers, Life, Risk, True Colors

12. INTERPERSONAL – children who are noticeably people oriented and outgoing, and do their learning cooperatively in groups or with a partner. These children may have typically been identified as "talkative" or " too concerned about being social“ in a traditional setting

13. Interpersonal Self mart Community service tutoring Amnesty International Peace Corps www.peacecorps.govwww.peacecorps.gov Computer software: mail list programs, Family Tree Maker, electronic versions of board games on line, GAMES: Family Feud, Ouija, Scruples, Life Stories

14. MUSICAL/RHYTHMIC – children who learn well through songs, patterns, rhythms, instruments and musical expression. It is easy to overlook children with this intelligence in traditional education.

15. Library of Musical Links www.wco.com/~jrush/musicwww.wco.com/~jrush/music Computer software: Desktop Sheet Music, Interactive Guitar, Teach Me Piano, Exploratorium (Music literature tutors) GAMES: Encore, (Name-that-Song Game) Simon, Song Burst (Complete-the Lyric Game) Musical/ Rhythmic Music smart

16. NATURALIST children who love the outdoors, animals, field trips. More than this, though, these students love to pick up on subtle differences in meanings The traditional classroom has not been accommodating to these children

17. Naturalist Nature smart National Audubon Society www.audubon.orgwww.audubon.org National Geographic Society www.nationalgeographic.com The Nature Company www.natureco.com/index.htmlwww.natureco.com/index.html Sierra Club www.sierraclub.orgwww.sierraclub.org Existential existence smart Association for Research and Enlightment www.are-cayce.com Association for Transpersonal Psychology www.igc.org/atp Foundation for Mind Research www.jeanhouston.org/foundation.html Insight Meditation Society www.dharma.org/ims.htmwww.dharma.org/ims.htm

18. EXISTENTIALIST – children who learn in the context of where humankind stands in the "big picture" of existence. They ask "Why are we here?" and "What is our role in the world?" This intelligence is seen in the discipline of philosophy.

19. Email: plamontagne@palmertrinity.orgplamontagne@palmertrinity.org Bibliography (information adapated from:) http://surfaquarium.com/MI/ http://members.shaw.ca/priscillatheroux/teacherrole.html http://surfaquarium.com/MI/overview.htm http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/multiple_intelligences.htm http://www.kent.k12.wa.us//KSD/MA/resources/blooms/blooms.html http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/teachereduc/indexTE.html http://www.ldpride.net/learningstyles.MI.htm