How does your child learn?
Multiple Intelligences Survey
LINGUISTIC INTELLIGENCE
Does your child:
~ Enjoy listening to other people talking?
~ Get annoyed with people who use improper English?
~ Like to learn new words?
~ Give good directions to others so that they understand the first time?
~ Like to tell stories?
~ Enjoy reading books?
~ Have a good memory for names,dates, and trivia?
If this sounds familiar, then your child might someday write a bestseller or become fluent in four languages.
Does your child:
~ Enjoy listening to other people talking?
~ Get annoyed with people who use improper English?
~ Like to learn new words?
~ Give good directions to others so that they understand the first time?
~ Like to tell stories?
~ Enjoy reading books?
~ Have a good memory for names,dates, and trivia?
If this sounds familiar, then your child might someday write a bestseller or become fluent in four languages.
LOGICAL-MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCE:
Does your child:
~ Like to work with computers and calculators?
~ Enjoy math class?
~ Easily add numbers in his/her head?
~ Enjoy doing science experiments?
~ Ask a lot of questions about how things work?
~ Enjoy chess, checkers, or other strategy games?
~ Enjoy logic puzzles or brainteasers?
If so, then your child could one day design sky-scrapers or program computers.
Does your child:
~ Like to work with computers and calculators?
~ Enjoy math class?
~ Easily add numbers in his/her head?
~ Enjoy doing science experiments?
~ Ask a lot of questions about how things work?
~ Enjoy chess, checkers, or other strategy games?
~ Enjoy logic puzzles or brainteasers?
If so, then your child could one day design sky-scrapers or program computers.
SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE:
Does your child:
~ Prefer to draw pictures rather than tell stories?
~ Find her way around a new place easily?
~ Like to take things apart and then try to figure out how to put them back together?
~ Read maps, charts, or diagrams more easily than text?
~ Daydream more than peers?
~ Build interesting three-dimensional constructions (like LEGO buildings)?
~ Doodle a lot on notebooks?
If this is your child, then he/she could grow up to paint a masterpiece or be an illustrator of a book.
Does your child:
~ Prefer to draw pictures rather than tell stories?
~ Find her way around a new place easily?
~ Like to take things apart and then try to figure out how to put them back together?
~ Read maps, charts, or diagrams more easily than text?
~ Daydream more than peers?
~ Build interesting three-dimensional constructions (like LEGO buildings)?
~ Doodle a lot on notebooks?
If this is your child, then he/she could grow up to paint a masterpiece or be an illustrator of a book.
BODILY-KINESTHETIC INTELLIGENCE:
Does your child:
~ Find activities like riding a bicycle, skating, or walking on a balance beam easy?
~ Use a lot of hand gestures and body movement when talking to friends?
~ Run, swim, and exercise without getting tired?
~ Learn to play new sports easily and quickly?
~ Like to touch something h/she has just seen?
~ Report different physical sensations while thinking or working?
~ Cleverly mimic other people's gestures or mannerisms?
~ Move, tap, or fidget while seated for a long time in one spot?
Sound Familiar? Then your child could develop into an expert skier or someone who amuses his/her friends with hilarious impersonations.
Does your child:
~ Find activities like riding a bicycle, skating, or walking on a balance beam easy?
~ Use a lot of hand gestures and body movement when talking to friends?
~ Run, swim, and exercise without getting tired?
~ Learn to play new sports easily and quickly?
~ Like to touch something h/she has just seen?
~ Report different physical sensations while thinking or working?
~ Cleverly mimic other people's gestures or mannerisms?
~ Move, tap, or fidget while seated for a long time in one spot?
Sound Familiar? Then your child could develop into an expert skier or someone who amuses his/her friends with hilarious impersonations.
MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE:
Does your child:
~ Enjoy playing a musical instrument?
~ Listen to music a lot?
~ Hum or sing a lot?
~ Cheer him/herself up with songs when he/she is sad?
~ Tell you when music sounds off-key?
~ Have a good singing voice?
~ Remember the melodies of songs?
Then he/she may one day conduct a symphony or be a famous singer.
Does your child:
~ Enjoy playing a musical instrument?
~ Listen to music a lot?
~ Hum or sing a lot?
~ Cheer him/herself up with songs when he/she is sad?
~ Tell you when music sounds off-key?
~ Have a good singing voice?
~ Remember the melodies of songs?
Then he/she may one day conduct a symphony or be a famous singer.
INTERPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE:
Does your child:
~ Like to work and play with other kids?
~ Understand how friends are feeling by looking at their faces?
~ Have two or more close friends?
~ Give advice to friends who have problems?
~ Have a good sense of empathy or concern for others?
~ Seem to be street-smart?
~ Seem to be a natural leader on teams?
If this sounds like your child, he/she might become someone's favorite teacher or the CEO of a big company.
Does your child:
~ Like to work and play with other kids?
~ Understand how friends are feeling by looking at their faces?
~ Have two or more close friends?
~ Give advice to friends who have problems?
~ Have a good sense of empathy or concern for others?
~ Seem to be street-smart?
~ Seem to be a natural leader on teams?
If this sounds like your child, he/she might become someone's favorite teacher or the CEO of a big company.
INTRAPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE:
Does your child:
~ Often need a quiet place to work or just be alone?
~ Like to make collections of things that have special meaning to him/her?
~ Remember his/her dreams?
~ Display a sense of independence or strong will?
~ Have a realistic sense of his/her strengths and weaknesses?
~ Have an interest or hobby that he/she doesn't talk much about?
~ Accurately express how he/she is feeling?
Then your child could someday write great poetry or resist negative peer pressure and do the right thing for him or herself.
Does your child:
~ Often need a quiet place to work or just be alone?
~ Like to make collections of things that have special meaning to him/her?
~ Remember his/her dreams?
~ Display a sense of independence or strong will?
~ Have a realistic sense of his/her strengths and weaknesses?
~ Have an interest or hobby that he/she doesn't talk much about?
~ Accurately express how he/she is feeling?
Then your child could someday write great poetry or resist negative peer pressure and do the right thing for him or herself.
NATURALIST INTELLIGENCE:
Does your child:
~ Enjoy collecting bugs, flowers, feathers, or rocks?
~ Like to closely examine what he/she finds in nature?
~ Keep detailed records of his/hern observations of nature?
~ Like to watch natural phenomena like the moon and the tides and hear explanations about them?
~ Become fascinated with one particular thing from nature and want to learn about it thoroughly?
~ Want to become a geologist, biologist, or some other type of scientist?
If so, then your child could become an expert on paleontology or discover new ways to save whales or bats.
Does your child:
~ Enjoy collecting bugs, flowers, feathers, or rocks?
~ Like to closely examine what he/she finds in nature?
~ Keep detailed records of his/hern observations of nature?
~ Like to watch natural phenomena like the moon and the tides and hear explanations about them?
~ Become fascinated with one particular thing from nature and want to learn about it thoroughly?
~ Want to become a geologist, biologist, or some other type of scientist?
If so, then your child could become an expert on paleontology or discover new ways to save whales or bats.