The National Teachers College

629 F. Nepomuceno St., Quiapo, Manila

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
1st Semester, SY 2019-2020

MET STR 2 - PRINCIPLES OF TEACHING 1

Discussant : Glenda Lyn L. Araño

Time : 11:00am – 2:00pm
Topic : Examples of classroom activities for each
Intelligence and Learning styles
Professor : Dr. Lorna C. Velasquez

Objectives : To know the different classroom activities for each

intelligence and learning styles
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Multiple Intelligence Example of Activities

Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence (Word Smart)

• Completing crossword puzzles with vocabulary words
• Playing games like Scrabble
• Writing short stories for a classroom newsletter
• Creating poems for a class poetry book
• Listening to a storyteller or telling a story to the class
• Participating in debates
• Storytelling and narration
• Have a debate
• Play vocabulary games
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence (Math Smart)
• Playing math games like mancala, dominoes, chess, and checkers
• Searching for patterns in the classroom, school, outdoors, and home
• Designing alphabetic and numeric codes
• Making up analogies
• Solving mysteries using deductive and inductive reasoning
• Formulating and testing hypothesis
• Solving number or logic puzzles
• Use toys and images for sequencing games where kids have to show
the right order
• Hide prizes, school supplies, or assignments in puzzle boxes

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Spatial Intelligence
(Picture Smart)
• Taking photographs for assignments and classroom newsletters
• Using clay or play dough to make objects or represent concepts from
content-area lessons
• Using pictorial models such as flow charts, visual maps, Venn
diagrams, and timelines to connect new material to known
information
• Taking notes using concept mapping, mind mapping, and clustering
• Using puppets to act out and reinforce concepts learned in class
• Using maps to study geographical locations discussed in class
• Illustrating poems for the class poetry book by drawing or using
computer software
• Using virtual-reality system software
Musical Intelligence
(Music Smart)
• Writing their own songs and music about content-area topics
• Putting original poems to music, and then performing them for the
class
• Setting a poem to music, and then performing it for the class
• Incorporating a poem they have written with a melody they already
know
• Listening to music from different historical periods
• Tape recording a poem over "appropriate" background music (i.e.
soft music if describing a kitten, loud music if they are mad about
pollution)
• Using rhythm and clapping to memorize math facts and other
content-area information
• Listening to CDs that teach concepts like the alphabet, parts of
speech, and states and capitals
Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence (Body Smart)
• Dramatic re-enactments of historical or literary events
• Using different body parts to measure objects
• Use charades to act out parts of speech
• Learn folk dances that represent different cultures
• Design and build an architectural model out of materials like Popsicle
sticks or toothpicks
• Use Lego bricks for math lessons such as the different sized bricks for
fractions
• Tell a story or practice vocabulary words with yoga poses attached
to each word
• Make up fingerplays to study for tests

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Interpersonal Intelligence
(People Smart)
• Working in small groups on a project
• Mentoring or teaching concepts to another student
• Conducting interviews
• Role-playing historical or literary situations
• Team-building exercises
• Cooperative or team video games
• Board or card games that involve creating alliances
• Mock political campaigns and elections
Intrapersonal Intelligence
(Self Smart)
• Keep a journal
• Write an autobiography
• Work independently
• Write essays about which historical or literary figures they would
want to be
• Rewrite a story from their point of view
• Share how they'd be different if they were from another culture
• Multi-player role-play games such as Dungeons and Dragons where
each kid is their own character
• Meditation sessions for brainstorming or studying
Naturalistic Intelligence
(Nature Smart)
• Collect items from nature
• Math story problems featuring plants or animals
• Classroom pets
• Plant and maintain a community garden
• Host a community nature clean-up event
• Sorting and classifying natural objects, such as leaves and rocks
• Researching animal habitats
• Observing natural surroundings
• Organizing or participating in park/playground clean-ups, recycling
drives, and beautification projects
Existentialist
• Make connections between what is being learned and the world
outside the classroom.
• Provide students with overviews to support their desire to see the big
picture.
• Have students look at a topic from different points of view.
• Have students summarize the information learned in a lesson.
• Have students create lessons to teach their classmates information.

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Learning Style Example

Mastery Exercise – practice

• Direct instruction
• Drill and repetition
• Demonstration
• Competitions
• Activities that focus on:
 Organizing and managing information
 Practicing a skill
 Observing
 Describing
 Memorizing
 Categorizing
Interpersonal Experience – personalize
• Team games
• Learning circles
• Role play
• Group investigation
• Peer tutoring
• Personal Sharing
• Activities that focus on :
 Describing feelings
 Empathizing
 Responding
 Valuing
Understanding Explain – prove
• Inquiry
• Concept formation
• Debate
• Problem solving
• Independent study
• Essays
• Logic problems
• Activities that focus on:
 Classifying
 Analyzing
 Using evidence
 Applying
 Comparing and contrasting
 Evaluating

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Self-Expressive Explore – produce
• Divergent thinking
• Metaphors
• Creative art activities
• Imagining
• Open-ended discussion
• Imagery
• Creative problem solving
• Activities that focus on:
 Hypothesizing
 Synthesizing
 Symbolizing expression
 Creating
 Metaphorical expression
 Self-expression