PLANNING10:MULTIPLEINTELLIGENCESASSIGNMENT

Multiple Intelligences Name: Date:

1. What is intelligence? 2. What is IQ? 3. Dr. Howard Gardner believes the IQ test is too limiting and has identified 9 kinds of intelligence. Check out http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/mi/index.html to help you to

complete the following chart: Number Type of Intelligence Description

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At the bottom of the web page, there is an interactive quiz (click on interactivity icon) on

multiple intelligences which may give you an indication of your strengths or weaknesses in terms of the nine intelligences. Complete the quiz and then list below your strongest and weakest intelligences.

Strongest Weakest

Don’t forget that we are more than our intelligences – we can work to build weakness and can lose strengths over time.

PLANNING10:MULTIPLEINTELLIGENCESASSIGNMENT

Read through the next web page on “How does this theory differ from the traditional definition of

intelligence?” As you compare the two theories, which do you think is more accurate or a better way of determining intelligence? Explain why you think this way.

4. Take a second quiz to help determine which intelligences are your strongest, and which are

your weakest… Go to http://www.jobsetc.gc.ca/eng/

Click on CAREER EXPLORATION, then IDENTIFY YOUR CAREER, then CAREER NAVIGATOR AND QUIZZES… take the Quiz called MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCE QUIZ and answer all 60 questions.

List your top 3 types of intelligence in the chart below and summarize the strengths that are associated with those intelligences.

Top 3 Types of Intelligence Description

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5. Were your results from the two Multiple Intelligence Quizzes similar or different? What do

your results imply about Multiple Intelligence Testing?