Bodily-kinesthetic Intelligence

Bodily-kinesthetic Intelligence

Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence entails using one's whole body or parts of the body to solve problems. 
It is the ability to use mental abilities to coordinate bodily movements. It includes a fine-tuned ability 
to handle objects. Occupations that draw upon these abilities are a dancer and an athlete.

Using Technology to Teach the Multiple Intelligences: Bodily-Kinesthetic

It's hard for kids with this intelligence to sit still in front of a computer for very long. There are ways 
to capture their interest, though. Just make sure that you limit the time that you require kids to 
actually be sitting and staring at the screen, because their level of learning will decrease the longer 
they stay in one position.

Use software that has lots of movement, bright colors and images, and can be used in small bits, 
over time. Or have them look up statistics and interesting facts about famous people who use their 
bodies for sport or expression (dancers, athletes, mimes, actors, etc).

Always relate what they are seeing to what they can do, and provide activities to supplement the 
technology in some way, activities which encourage movement and expression, like plays, skits, 
puppet shows, and sport-type games. (http://www.mcmel.org/erica.mi/technology.html)

Internet Links

http://www.ericdigests.org/1998-1/multiple.htm
http://www.ericdigests.org/1998-1/multiple.htm

http://www.mcmel.org/erica.mi/technology.html
http://www.mcmel.org/erica.mi/technology.html

Other Resources

Woolfolk, Anita E. (1998). Educational Pyschology. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Eggen and Kauchak. (2007). Educational Psychology. Colombus, OH: Pearson.