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Multiple Intelligences and Positive Life Habits: 174 Activities for Applying Them in Your Classroom.
Beachner, Lynne; Pickett, Anola – 2001
This book offers teachers a toolbox for discovering the innate strengths and talents and the unique learning styles of each student. Drawing from Howard Gardner's work on multiple intelligences, the book offers more than a dozen activities specifically tailored to each of the eight multiple intelligences: verbal/linguistic, mathematical/logical,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Multiple Intelligences
Maylone, Nelson John – 1999
This book is designed to provide middle-grade mathematics teachers with ideas for enlivening instruction to help students acquire a sense about numbers. Guided classroom discussions for writing opportunities centered on the theme of problem solving are provided. Following an introduction, chapters include the following: Counterintuitive Problems;…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Middle Schools
Nelson, Kristen – 2001
This book integrates the use of three tools (the Internet, the theory of multiple intelligences, and brain research) to help teachers design projects and activities that help students gain a deeper understanding of the curriculum, discussing how these educational tools work together to help teachers make better use of their classroom time as they…
Descriptors: Brain, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Internet
Costa, Arthur L., Ed.; Kallick, Bena, Ed. – 2000
This is the fourth volume in a series describing 16 types of intelligent behavior called habits of mind. It presents a collection of papers that explain how communities, departments, teams, school districts, and school faculties can integrate the habits of mind into the school culture and sustain them. After "Series Foreword: Thinking on the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership, Lifelong Learning
Moursund, David – 1996
This book summarizes and synthesizes current thinking on problem solving and explores ways in which computers can be used in problem solving to help users gain expertise in their domains of interest. Topics in the nine chapters include an introduction to problem solving including a definition of problems; an overview followed by detailed…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer System Design, Information Sources, Information Technology
Glandon, Shan – 2000
This volume brings award-winning literature to all areas of the science curriculum. The lesson plan format includes the four stages of engagement, elaboration, exploration, and connection. Each story is followed by activities that make connections between literature, science, and the arts. Chapters include: (1) "Frog Went A-Courtin',"…
Descriptors: Art, Childrens Literature, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Education
Flack, Jerry D. – 1997
Based on the premise that the fairy tale genre can be effectively used as the content base for teaching reading, writing, and thinking skills and processes, this book offers educators ideas and techniques that promote multiple intelligences, critical thinking, creative problem solving, and problem- and product-based learning. Drawing on Bloom's…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Creative Teaching
Lazear, David – 1991
This guide provides a rationale and approach for translating Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences into classroom practice. The introduction explains Gardner's theory, gives the definitions of the seven intelligences he identifies--verbal/linguistic, logical/mathematical, visual/spatial, body/kinesthetic, musical/rhythmic,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style
