Year 9 Multiple Intelligence Testing

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Year 9 Multiple Intelligence Testing

• A guide to help you with option choices and SATS
  revision, using your multiple intelligences.

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What is intelligence?

• Psychologist Dr. Howard Gardner developed the
  theory of multiple intelligences.
• He claimed that there are eight different
  intelligences.
• He defines intelligence as the ability to solve
  problems in a particular way in differing
  situations.
• As humans we have many different intelligences!
• FACT! WE ARE ALL INTELLIGENT IN ONE WAY OR
  ANOTHER.

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ITS IMPORTANT TO HAVE BALANCED INTELLIGENCE

• To be a smarter person it would be best to
  develop all of your intelligences. Look at your
  results pie chart. What are your strong smart
  slices and what are your weak smart slices?
  Think about the kind of person you could be if
  you were strong in most areas!
• You could be a professional footballer, who
  can cook, sculpt and play guitar. whilst also
  finding out it is easy to measure areas for DIY
  projects. Someone who loves to party but finds
  quiet time to read a book on the environment, in
  the hope that they can make a difference in the
  world.
• YOU WOULD BE A GREAT ALL ROUND PERSON TO KNOW!
• So celebrate your strong intelligences. Use them
  to help you learn but accept the challenges to
  improve your other intelligences. It will make
  you SMARTER. Look through the following
  explanations of the SMART areas and see if the
  learning methods help to give you ideas to
  challenge your intelligence.

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THE EIGHT WAYS TO BE SMART
WORD SMART LOGIC SMART
MUSIC SMART PICTURE SMART
BODY SMART SELF SMART
PEOPLE SMART NATURE SMART
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WORD SMART

• You may enjoy hearing and listening activities,
  tongue twisters, humour, jokes, oral and silent
  reading, creative writing, spelling,vocabulary,
  journal writing, diaries, poetry or creating
  television jingles.
• TO HELP YOUR LEARNING TRY THESE METHODS
• Learn a language of a country you
• want to visit.
• Use storytelling to explain
• Conduct a debate
• Write a poem,play,legend,news article
• Create a talk show radio programme
• Conduct an interview

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LOGIC SMART

• You may enjoy analysing a challenge, using
  calculators, charts, codes, computers, creating
  databases, experiments, measuring games, solving
  problems, finding patterns creating new games,
  researching,spreadsheets or time lines.
• TO HELP YOUR LEARNING TRY THESE METHODS
• Make a map
• Design and conduct an experiment
• Make a graph to display information
• Describe patterns or symmetry

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PICTURE SMART

• You may enjoy art, pictures,paintings, sculpture,
  drawings,doodling, mind mapping, patterns,
  designs and creating colour schemes. You may have
  an active imagination, like to play chess, put
  puzzles together, build blocks or find routes.
• TO HELP YOUR LEARNING TRY THESE METHODS
• Chart, map, cluster or graph
• Make a slide show, videotape
• Create a piece of art
• Invent a board game
• Sculpt, draw, paint, photograph etc.

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MUSIC SMART

• You may enjoy audio taped presentations, musical
  performances, singing, whistling.humming,
  environmental sounds, rhythmic patterns, musical
  composition, instrumental sounds, tonal patterns
  and rap music.
• TO HELP YOUR LEARNING TRY THESE METHODS
• Give a musical presentation
• Sing a rap or song
• Indicate rhythmical patterns in
• Make a musical instrument and play it
• Have music on in the background

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BODY SMART

• You may enjoy role playing, making physical
  gestures, drama, impressions of voices, martial
  arts, playing sport, physical exercise, body
  language or creative dance.
• TO HELP YOUR LEARNING TRY THESE METHODS
• Join a team or club
• Make a task or puzzle card
• Build or construct
• Plan and attend a field trip
• Bring hands on material
• Dress as a character to tell a story or play

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PEOPLE SMART

• You may enjoy group projects, interpreting
  others feelings, division of labour, sensing
  others motives, giving and receiving feedback,
  one to one communication, cooperative learning
  strategies, empathy practices.
• TO HELP YOUR LEARNING TRY THESE METHODS
• Conduct a meeting
• Participate in a service project
• Teach someone else
• Practise giving and receiving feedback
• Interview a class mate

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SELF SMART

• You may enjoy emotional processing, silent
  reflection, thinking, focusing, concentrating,
  reasoning skills, understanding yourself ( known
  as meta cognitive techniques)
• TO HELP YOUR LEARNING TRY THESE METHODS
• Describe qualities that you have
• Set and pursue a personal goal
• Use a word processing application to write an
  ongoing journal/diary
• Keep a personal dictionary
• Share meaningful pictures and stories with the
  class

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NATURE SMART

• You may enjoy being outdoors into home or
  classroom, or relating the home or classroom to
  the natural world. You be interested in
  geography, temperature, ozone. Measuring,
  charting, and mapping changes. You may enjoy
  observing insects, animals,plants, soil and
  journals. You may be involved in recycling,
  reusing, outdoor walks, hikes and tours.
• TO HELP YOUR LEARNING TRY THESE METHODS
• Set up a local recycle scheme
• Photograph natural objects
• Use binoculars, telescopes, microscopes or
  magnifiers

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HOW TO USE THE RESULTS PIE CHART TO HELP WITH
OPTIONS CHOICES

• OPTIONS Task 1
• Read through the explanations of the smart areas
  carefully.
• Look at your strong intelligences and make a list
  of subjects that these intelligences would lend
  themselves to.
• Look at your weak areas and make a list of
  subjects that you could connect with these areas.
• Your list of strengths should confirm your solid
  choices for options.
• Your weak areas should enable you to dismiss
  certain areas and offer some good learning
  strategies to help you with the compulsory
  subject areas.
• IT IS IMPORTANT TO USE THE MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE
  WHEEL ONLY AS A GUIDE WHEN MAKING CHOICES.

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YOUR INTELLIGENCE LISTS

• STRONG SMART AREAS AND CONNECTED SUBJECTS
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• WEAK SMART AREAS AND CONNECTED SUBJECTS
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SATS AND REVISION TECHNIQUES

• Revision is difficult at the best of times. The
  SATS will be your first public exams at
  Heathfield.
• During your SATS you will have to revise at home
  after a long day at school. Your knowledge of
  your own intelligences can help you make this
  task easier for yourself.
• Each intelligence has different ways to help you
  learn any work given to you by your teachers. Use
  your strengths by revising in different ways.
• Read, carefully, the revision guide and complete
  the revision timetable

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SUGGESTED SMART REVISION TECHNIQUES
WORD SMART Write out revision notes on cards write a story that incorporates all the information you need to know on one subject Tape yourself talking through your revision and then listen to it. LOGIC SMART Mind map information develop spread sheets and databases of revision notes on the computer Construct a revision timetable Create a quiz using your revision information
PICTURE SMART Use colour coordinated paper,i.e. red for English book1, blue for English book2 Use picture association make a slide show or draw out graphs. Illustrate revision notes MUSIC SMART Listen to one type of music as you learn one subject Find rhythmical patterns in your revision notes Write a rap about the information you have to learn.
BODY SMART Create a role play which uses the revision Create a sequence of movements to help you remember lists Go for a run and think through your revision. PEOPLE SMART Teach someone else what you know Work in a group giving and receiving feedback Create a presentation and speak out loud what you have learnt
SELF SMART Write a revision diary Make quiet time to think through what you have learn Take short breaks in between silent reflection Use deep breathing to help you focus. NATURE SMART Consider your revision environment work outdoors Associate revision with natural objects.
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REVISION TIMETABLE
Day Subject smart revision techniques you will use.
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