Multiple Intelligence

Introduction

Welcome to Ms. Williams' Multiple Intelligences Webquest!

Multiple Intelligence Theory was created by Howard Gardner.  He realized that everyone has different ways of learning and he spent many years studying how people acquire knowledge. I will use this information to create engaging activities for you throughout the year.

The different intelligences are:

Verbal/Linguistic: Word Smart

Musical/Rhythmic: Music Smart

Logical/Mathematical: Number Smart

Visual/Spatial: Picture Smart

Bodily Kinesthetic: Body Smart

Intrapersonal: Self Smart

Interpersonal: People Smart

Naturalisitic: Nature Smart

 

When you have completed this cyberspace adventure you will be able to:

Understand your strongest Multiple Intelligences

Acknowledge your weaker Intelligences

Choose activities that will inspire you

Express what you know effectively

Become more confident in your learning

 

 

Task

The goal of this webquest is for you to learn more about how you learn best.  Additionally, you will learn how to strengthen your weaker intelligences.  It is best to be well-rounded in many areas instead of being an expert at only one skill.

You will first take an online Multiple Intelligence survey.  You will use this information to guide your activities during the Web Quest. You will complete an activity within each intelligence and take personal notes on how confident you felt during each activity.

It is necessary to understand how you learn so that you can become more responsible for choosing appropriate assignments, discussing your needs with parents and teachers, and feeling the joy of success in school!

 

Process

1. Online Multiple Intelligence Survey

Go to this web site, choose Multiple Intelligence test for the appropriate age range and complete the online survey. 

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/index.htm

After you have completed survey, press the "Finish" button and see what your strongest and weakest intelligences are! Read what your results say about how you learn. Write your results code in the space on your Webquest packet. Print out the results sheet to turn in with your packet.

After you read your survey results, answer the following questions:

  • How can learning about my personal MIs help me?
  • How can I create long-term personal goals based on my MIs? (These can be in school or outside of school.) 
  • How can understanding how my classmates learn help me get along
    with them better?
  • In summary, my strengths are________________________ and my
    weakness are____________________________.

 

2. Independent work

Go to the following website.  Practice a few activities from each intelligence:

http://surfaquarium.com/MI/intelligences.htm

  • You must turn in the names of each activity and a personal reflections of each activity.
Evaluation

Multiple Intelligence Web Quest RubricHow well did I learn about how I learn and what Multiple Intelligences are?

Beginning

1

Developing

2

Accomplished

3

Exemplary

4

Score

Online Multiple Intelligence Survey

Completed the online survey but did not answer the questions.

Completed the online survey and showed a beginning understanding of MIs. 
Answers to questions 
were limited.

Completed the online survey, answered questions with insight, and set attainable goals.

Completed the online survey, answered the questions with insight, reflections, and set well thought out goals.

MI Activities and Reflections

Showed evidence of 2-3 activities.  Reflections were limited in student application of MIs in his or her life.

Showed evidence of 4-5 activities.  Reflections showed a developing understanding of each MI in his or her life.

Showed evidence of 5-8 activities.  Reflections were in depth and showed higher- level understanding of MIs in his or her life.

Showed evidence of 8 activities.  Reflections were critical and showed a deep evaluation of how MIs could influence his or her life.

 

 

 

 

 
Conclusion

Now that you have completed your Multiple Intelligence Web Quest, take some time to answer the following questions to conclude and sum up what you have learned about yourself!

  1. Will you change the way you think about people in your class based on your experiences with this web quest?  Explain.
  2. Do you think that you made judgments about yourself that were wrong? What judgments? Explain.
  3. Will you think of your MIs next time you begin an assignment?
  4. What questions did this activity make you think of?
  5. Why do you think asking these questions might help you or others