Lesson Ideas utilising Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Topic: Year: Verbal / Linguistic Logical/Numerical Visual/Spatial Bodily/Kinesthetic Musical/Rhythmic Inter-personal Intra-personal Naturalistic R E C A L L Choose a poem you know and like, or find one if you don’t know any. Familiarise yourself with it, read aloud twice. Imagine it has a rap beat, then perform it as ‘rap’. I N T E R P R E T Find a verse or two of song lyrics you really like, that have some meaning or background. Investigate and find out what they mean or are about. If you can’t find out, draw your own conclusions. Play the verse(s) and/or read the lyrics aloud to the class. Explain what they mean or are about, and why you have chosen them. Dorothea McKellar’s poem “I Love a Sunburnt Country” is a famous one about the Australian landscape. Construct a cartoon or series of images which represents each of the first four lines. Form groups of four. Each person then writes an acrostic poem about each of the other three, using their FULL name and only words which relate to or describe their subject. Fold up and sort into piles for each person (ie. Three poems about Jim, three about Jill…) then get a neutral person to read them out. See if the subject can guess who wrote each poem. Imagine life as a creature (or plant) other than a human. Write a poem that describes life through ‘your’ eyes. A N A L Y S E Find a limerick you like. Count the syllables in each line, mark the beat, highlight where there are rhymes. Make your own limerick by interchanging key words and names. Write a poem that makes extensive use of similes (eg. “as ….. as a ……” or “…… like a …..”) Read aloud to the class, but don’t read out your simile – mime it instead. See if your classmates can guess your simile. Ask volunteers to suggest alternative similes, but again they must mime – not say them. An idea is travelling around your brain. It is a long and winding corridor with many rooms. Each room has a door with a different label, indicating something important in your life or your personality. As you open each door, what things are in in the room behind it? Write a poem describing this. It can have any format. C R E A T E Write a short poem that uses at least 10 words you have made up yourself, by combining two or more other words (eg. Spider + Fly = Spi-Fly … Laugh + Barf = Blarf) Write a 20-line poem which consists entirely of a shopping list. See if you can create interesting rhymes to give it a variety of rhythms. Think of an unusual way to end each verse. You have been asked to create a combined logo and jingle for a leading brand of soft drink (make this up). Your logo should be eye-catching, your jingle should rhyme, be catchy and interesting. Write a poem titled “Inside my Pencil- Case” or “Inside my Locker” that lists and describes objects. Read aloud using your body to show the shape, function and movement of these. Listen to the Savage Garden song “Affirmation” and follow the lyrics. Pay attention to the structure, rhythm and message of the song. Write your own version of the song where every line starts with “I believe…” (they don’t have to rhyme) Be sincere with your statements of belief! In random or specified order, write a class poem each student contributing one line. There should be 25 lines, each starting with a different letter of the alphabet (skip X) Write a poem about the environment or nature where in each line, instead of a written word you actually have an object stuck in instead of a word (eg. leaf, feather, bark) © 2002 www.teachit.co.uk gardners2

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Lesson Ideas utilising Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Topic: Year:

Verbal / Linguistic Logical/Numerical Visual/Spatial Bodily/Kinesthetic Musical/Rhythmic Inter-personal Intra-personal Naturalistic

R E C A L L

Choose a poem you know and like, or find one if you don’t know any. Familiarise yourself with it, read aloud twice. Imagine it has a rap beat, then perform it as ‘rap’.

I N T E R P R E T

Find a verse or two of song lyrics you really like, that have some meaning or background. Investigate and find out what they mean or are about. If you can’t find out, draw your own conclusions. Play the verse(s) and/or read the lyrics aloud to the class. Explain what they mean or are about, and why you have chosen them.

Dorothea McKellar’s poem “I Love a Sunburnt Country” is a famous one about the Australian landscape. Construct a cartoon or series of images which represents each of the first four lines.

Form groups of four. Each person then writes an acrostic poem about each of the other three, using their FULL name and only words which relate to or describe their subject. Fold up and sort into piles for each person (ie. Three poems about Jim, three about Jill…) then get a neutral person to read them out. See if the subject can guess who wrote each poem.

Imagine life as a creature (or plant) other than a human. Write a poem that describes life through ‘your’ eyes.

A N A L Y S E

Find a limerick you like. Count the syllables in each line, mark the beat, highlight where there are rhymes. Make your own limerick by interchanging key words and names.

Write a poem that makes extensive use of similes (eg. “as ….. as a ……” or “…… like a …..”) Read aloud to the class, but don’t read out your simile – mime it instead. See if your classmates can guess your simile. Ask volunteers to suggest alternative similes, but again they must mime – not say them.

An idea is travelling around your brain. It is a long and winding corridor with many rooms. Each room has a door with a different label, indicating something important in your life or your personality. As you open each door, what things are in in the room behind it? Write a poem describing this. It can have any format.

C R E A T E

Write a short poem that uses at least 10 words you have made up yourself, by combining two or more other words (eg. Spider + Fly = Spi-Fly … Laugh + Barf = Blarf)

Write a 20-line poem which consists entirely of a shopping list. See if you can create interesting rhymes to give it a variety of rhythms. Think of an unusual way to end each verse.

You have been asked to create a combined logo and jingle for a leading brand of soft drink (make this up). Your logo should be eye-catching, your jingle should rhyme, be catchy and interesting.

Write a poem titled “Inside my Pencil-Case” or “Inside my Locker” that lists and describes objects. Read aloud using your body to show the shape, function and movement of these.

Listen to the Savage Garden song “Affirmation” and follow the lyrics. Pay attention to the structure, rhythm and message of the song. Write your own version of the song where every line starts with “I believe…” (they don’t have to rhyme) Be sincere with your statements of belief!

In random or specified order, write a class poem each student contributing one line. There should be 25 lines, each starting with a different letter of the alphabet (skip X)

Write a poem about the environment or nature where in each line, instead of a written word you actually have an object stuck in instead of a word (eg. leaf, feather, bark)