Activities grouped by intelligence

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Verbal/Linguistic -- Word Smart

Word of the Day -- NY Times Learning Network	Crossword puzzle
Quiddler Daily Puzzle -- word game	Biography Maker
Braille Rules/Charts	Word Game of the Day -- Merriam Webster
Vocabulary word puzzles	HandSpeak A Sign Language Dictionary online
DiscoverySchool's Puzzlemaker	Poetry Writing from Scholastic
Literary Book Club	Nutrition WebQuest -- writing a newsletter about nutrition
ePALS Classroom Exchange	Author Study Webquest
Create a newsletter.	Create a brochure.
Any word processing, desktop publishing or presentation authoring activities	Create a video of an oral history, story, interview, or dramatic interpretation.
Chats and discussion lists	eBooks or interactive CD-ROM books
Electronic or online reference books/encyclopedias	Text Twist from Shockwave is an online word game similar to Scrabble.

Logical/Mathematical -- Problem Solving or Number Smart

Create a timeline of historical events	Math Jeopardy
Use Inspiration to analyze a scene/character.	Brain Teasers
Inside Art	Thinks Brain games, puzzles, and pastimes
Graphic Organizers	Space Day Brain Warp
Mind Games	Inspiration to brainstorm/organize
Cut the Knot -- Interactive Mathematics, Miscellany, and Puzzles	Illuminations from NCTM
AAA math	Project Interactive--Java-based courseware for middle school math
Set Game	Maths File Games-- BBC Education
Using spreadsheets to Chart Our Nation's Growth	Interactive Tangram
Use databases or spreadsheets as organizational tools.	Use graphing calculators or spreadsheets as calculation tools.
Use scientific probes and other equipment.	Use presentation software as a means to show results of data gathering (graphs).
Create videos of scientific investigations.	Take part in online data collection projects like the Human Genetics Project.
Computer-aided design (CAD)	A timeline activity with children's books from Carol Hurst

Visual/Spatial -- Picture Smart

Digital Camera Scavenger Hunt	US Capitol Virtual Tour
Virtual Tour of the International Space Station	BrainPOP
Illusions	Fear of Physics illustrates physics principals
Exploratorium online exhibits	West Point's Bridge Designer
Funderstanding Roller Coaster	Animal Claymation Lessons
Use KidPix or Paint to illustrate a story or historical scene.	Visual fractions
Sand Lot Science illusions	Interactive Sky Charts of Constellations
Inspiration to brainstorm/organize	Graphic Organizers
No Flakes Like Snowflakes! a math, science and art lesson.	Computer-aided design (CAD)
Use Gif Animator to make a digital 'flip book.'	Interactive Tangram
Create a timeline of historical events	Create a newsletter or brochure (layout design).
Create a presentation (layout design).	Create graphs and charts to visually represent data.
Create webpages (layout design).	Use video conferencing.
Use word-proccessor and clip art to match pictures to vocabulary words.	Use digital imaging programs (Photoshop, Paint Shop, etc.) to create visual artwork.
Order in the Court -- Electronic field trip to a court case in Colonial Williamsburg	The Art of Crime Detection explains the two sides of your brain and uses the visual side to sketch people you have witnessed in the act of a crime.
Marly's Amazing Micronautic Adventures--lots of microscopic images.

Body/Kinesthetic -- High Energy or Body Smart

Use AlphaSmarts, Palms or iPaqs so students can move around to work.	Digital Camera Scavenger Hunt
Claymation	Movement in Art lesson
Hands on Crafts has ideas for kids to recycle trash into art.	Playing Charades to act out scenes from history, a story you've read, a culture you are studying.
Students create an act out the story of the Wright Brothers at the end of a unit.	Have students use a SMART board or Mimeo to input data or navigate the computer.
Create a dance about an African American Achiever as the final project for this webquest.	In this Creating Movement Through Literature lesson, primary students will learn that they can use the words from a book to generate dance movements.
In this economics lesson, K-5 students play a game of charades acting out producers and consumers.	Use scientific probes and other equipment.
Create video productions of skits, dances, demonstrations, etc.	Create virtual tours.
Use K'NEX, Lego Mindstorms or other robotic programs.	Create and perform a Sun Dance for a primary science unit on the sun.

Musical/Rhythmic -- Music Smart

Create a song about an African American Achiever as a final project of this webquest.	Listen to songs written about different historical stories at History Happens.
Math Rock Group webquest	Mathemusician
Billy B! The Natural Science Song and Dance Man.	Science Song Sites
Math Songs and Poems	Poems and Songs That Teach (Elementary)
Math and Music a la Mozart from StudyWorks! Online	CGI Morse Code Translator will translate or playback the message.
Audio Memory -- You Never Forget What You Sing!	Sonny's Blues webquest -- Students write a song about the blues.
Good Vibrations -- Science unit on sound	The Soundry
History in Song	Record songs (audio and/or video) that the students create and perform.
Use music notation software to allow students to create.

Interpersonal -- People Smart

Play review games such as Jeopardy, Hollywood Squares, or Who Wants to be a Millionaire.	Digital photography scavenger hunts.
ePals -- email exchange	Webquests like this one on Stem Cell Research that require students to work in teams.
Video production for a class project.	Statistics -- Cast your vote
Learning Adventures in Citizenship from PBS	Students can share their thoughts, opinions, and writing on Kids on the Net
Use chat, listservs and discussion lists.	Use word processors to chain-write a story. (Write a sentence or paragraph, then move to another and add to what's already written.)
Use video and teleconferencing.	Use group decisions software like Decisions, Decisions from Tom Snyder.
Group presentations (PowerPoint)	Flat Stanley Project communications project
Allow students to give a survey then organize and manipulate data in spreadsheet.	Biography Maker

Intrapersonal -- Self Smart

Poetry Writing from Scholastic	Email exchange with younger students.
All About Me webquest	Themes & Literature Circles: All About Me (primary)
All About Me internet scavenger hunt	Can Do! -- helping people develop a 'can-do' attitude.
Voices -- children express their ideas and opinions about children's issues.	Kid's Voting USA
That's Me! A guide to personality	Values: Making Choices for Life
The Keirsey Temperament Sorter	Create a journal on computer.
Use Inspiration to concept map.	Use self-paced tutorials online like the ones from AAA math.
Use self-paced webquests designed for individuals.	Create a video to record personal ideas.
Create a multimedia portfolio of individual work.

Naturalist

Digital camera scavenger hunt of items found in nature	Make a video about natural occurrences.
Quest of the Ring Leader -- an environmental educational adventure set in a game format.	Webcams from the Smithsonian National Zoological Park
The Great Plant Escape	Butterfly webquest elementary
Cycles in Nature webquest high school	Naturesongs Digital Recording
Katerpillars & Mystery Bugs	Patterns: Math in Nature
Use microscopes like Intel Play Microscope to view nature up close.	Collect, organize and represent data and information from nature using spreadsheet and presentation software.
A variety of Online Adventures (PBS/NOVA) are available for students to virtually explore different types of nature.	Marly's Amazing Micronautic Adventures--lots of microscopic images.
"Bucket Buddies" is an online project recommended for elementary school students (grades 1-5). Students around the United States and other countries will collect samples from local ponds to answer the question: Are the organisms found in pond water the same all over the world?	"Take a Dip" is an online project for middle school students. From September 9 - November 15, 2002, students will team up around the globe to test fresh water. Join this collaborative project, comparing the water quality of your local river, stream, lake or pond with other fresh water sources around the world.

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