Linguistic Intelligence
Capacity to use words effectively whether orally (eg. Story-teller, orator, politician) or in writing eg. Poet, Playwright, or journalist).

Word Smart Kids enjoy:
Writing letters, poems, stories, descriptions
Leading an oral discussion or debate
Creating audio tapes
Giving an oral presentation
Writing or giving a news report
Developing  questions for, and conducting an interview
Presenting a radio drama
Creating a slogan
Writing their own story problems
Keeping a journal or diary
Writing a verbal defense
Creating a word game to go along with your present topic
Doing Storytelling or writing all types of  Humor / Jokes.

Logic Smart
Capacity to use numbers effectively (eg. Mathematician) or Reason-well 9eg. Scientist, computer programmer, or logician). This intelligence includes sensitivity to logical patterns, and relationship, statements and propositions ( eg. If-then, cause-effect)

Math Smart Kids Enjoy:
Listening or organizing facts
Using deductive reasoning skills
Using abstract symbols and formulas
Solving logic and /or story problems
Doing brainteasers
Analyzing data
Using graphic organizers
Working with number sequences
Computing or Calculating
Deciphering codes
Forcing relationships / Syllogisms
Creating or finding Patterns
Hypothesizing / Conducting an experiment

Picture Smart
The ability to perceive the visual-spatial word accurately (eg. Hunter, scout or guide) and to perform transformations on those perceptions eg. As interior decorator, architect, artist or inventor) It includes the capacity to visualize, to graphically represent visual or spatial ideas

Art Smart kids enjoy:
Creating charts, posters, graphs or diagrams
Creating a Web page or PowerPoint project
Making a videotape or film
Creating pie charts, bar graphs, etc.
Making a photo album, creating a collage
Making a mobile or sculpture
Designing a mind map
Making a map
Using colour and shape.
Developing or using Guided Imagery
Understanding colour Schemes
Pretending to be someone else, or something else.

Bodily Smart
Expertise in using one’s whole body to express ideas and feelings (eg. Actor, a mime, an athlete or a dancer) and facility in using one’s hand to produce or transform things (eg. Craft person, sculptor, mechanic or surgeon). This intelligence includes specific physical sills such as co-ordination, balance, dexterity, strength, flexibility and speed.

Body Smart Kids enjoy:
Creating a dance or movement sequence
Role Playing
Using physical gestures to communicate an idea
Performing a skit or play
Making manipulative
Building a model
Performing Martial Arts
Making a board or floor game
Putting together a puzzle
Creating and/ or participating in a scavenger hunt
Performing a pantomime
Demonstrating Sports games

Musical / Rhythmic Smart
Capacity to perceive (eg. Music aficionado), discriminate (eg. Music critic) transform eg. As  a composer) and express (eg. As a performer) musical forms. This intelligence includes sensitivity to the rhythm, pitch or melody or timbre of a musical piece.

Music Smart Kids enjoy:
Writing or singing a curriculum song in the content area
Developing and / or using rhythmic patterns as learning aids.
Composing a melody
Changing the words to a song.
Finding song titles that help explain content
Creating a musical game or collage
Identifying  music that helps students study
Using musical vocabulary as metaphors
Creating, designing and building a musical instrument
Incorporating environmental sounds into a project or presentation
Using percussion vibrations
Showing or explaining tonal patterns.

Interpersonal Smart
The ability to perceive and make distinctions in the moods, intentions, motivations and feelings of other people. This can include sensitivity to facial expressions, voice and gestures.

People Smart kids Enjoy:
Giving feedback to the teacher or to classmates
Intuiting other’s feelings
Empathy practices
Establishing a division of labor
Person-to person communication
Cooperative learning strategies
Collaborative Skills
Receiving Feedback
Sensing other’s motives
Group projects
Teaching someone else something new
Learning from someone outside of school
Other  points of view
Creating group rules
Acting in a play or simulation
Conducting an interview
Creating ‘phone buddies’ for homework

Intrapersonal Intelligence
Self-Knowledge. This intelligence includes having pictures of oneself  (strengths  and weaknesses) awareness of inner moods, intentions, motivations, temperaments and desires and the capacity for self-discipline, self-understanding and self-esteem.

Self Smart Kids Enjoy:
Keeping a journal or diary
Setting short/long term goals
Learning why and how the content under study is important in real life.
Describing his /her feelings about a subject
Evaluating his / her own work
Describing his/her personal strengths
Carrying out an independent object
Writing or drawing a personal history of his / her work.
Creating his /her own schedule and environment for completing class work
Having silent reflection time
Being allowed to emotionally process information
Using metacognition techniques
Using Focusing and / or Concentration skills
Using higher-order reasoning skills
Complex-guided imagery
‘Centering’ practices Thinking Strategies

Nature Smart
Expertise in the recognition and classification of the numerous species -  the flora and fauna – of an individuals environment. This also includes sensitivity to  her natural phenomena (eg. Cloud formations and mountains0 and in the case of those growing  up in an urban environment, the capacity to discriminate among non-living forms such as cars, sneakers and music CD-covers.

Nature Smart Kids Enjoy:
Keeping a Journal or diary
Setting short / long term goals earning why and how the content under study in important in real life.
Describing his / her feelings about a subject.
Evaluating his / her own work
Describing his / her personal strengths
Carrying out an independent project
Writing or drawing a personal history of his / her work
Creating his /her own schedule and environment for completing class work
Having silent reflection time
Being allowed to emotionally process information
Using metacognition techniques
Using Focusing and / or Concentration Skills
Using higher-order reasoning skills
Complex guided imagery
Centering practices
Thinking strategies