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Name: Siti Arfifah Binti Jais
Lecturer: Mr. Abu Bakar Bin Ahmad
Course: KPLI-SR January 2009
Class: Science 2 25 Jan 2009
Tittle: 8 Multiple Intelligence
Multiple Intelligence Description Example of activities
applied
1 Verbal Linguistic
An ability to use words effectively in
both orally and written, including the
ability to manipulate sentences, having
good language styles and perfect
speech.
Word building, humor, story-
telling, reading, journal-
writing, formal speech,
creative writing,
2 Logical-mathematical
An ability to use number, to reason, to
identify abstract patterns, and to
connect cause and effect (logic), to
use scientific and heuristic thinking,
inductive and deductive inferencing,
calculating, categorizing, generalizing
and hypothesis-testing.
Using number and formulas,
graphic organizing,
calculating, outlining cause
and relationship (logic),
problem-solving
3 Visual-spatial
An ability to create mental pictures and
observe the word visually; awareness
of colours, lines, shapes and space;
ability to visualize graphically, spatially
and oriented oneself in a space matrix.
Drawing, mind-mapping,
active imagination, visualizing
spatially, painting
4 Bodily-kinesthetic
An ability that involves physical skills
and movements like co-ordination,
balance and flexibility; use body parts
to express ideas and feelings.
Creative dancing, drama,
sports & games, role play,gymnastic, bodily activities,
5 Musical-rhythmic An ability to enjoy, discriminate and
express feeling through music; being
sensitive to rhythm, melody or pitch.
Vocal & sounds tone, drama
& songs, environmental
sounds, rhythmic patterns,
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instrumental sounds, singing
6 Interpersonal
An ability to discriminate between
various interpersonal signals and to
respond effectively in a pragmatic way
towards the signals.
Person to person
communication, empathy
practices, collaborative
learning, giving feedback, co-
operative learning strategies,
group projects, sensing
others feeling, receiving
feedback
7 Intrapersonal
An ability to understand and evaluate
oneself; has accurate perception self,
awareness of moods, wants,
motivation and anger; ability to
discipline oneself.
Metacognition techniques,thinking strategic, emotional
processing, mindfulness
practices, higher-order
reasoning, self-discipline,
concentration & focusing
skills, independent studies &
projects
8 Naturalist
An ability to appreciate, care for,
discriminate, recognise, categorise,
analyse and be sensitive towards all
flora, fauna an nature in general.
Field trips, observationexercise, school garden /
indoor garden, compare and
contrast objects, keep-a-pet
project, science park, natural
world simulation, species
classification
