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MI inventory

What are my Learning Strengths?

Research shows that all human beings have at least eight different types of intelligence. Depending on your background and age, some intelligences are more developed than
others. This activity will help you find out what your strengths are. Kno'Ning this, you can work to strengthen the other intelligences that you do not use as often.

Verbal/Linquistic Intelligence

Loqical/Mathematical Intelliqence

_ ; enjoy telling stories andjokes

I have a good memory for trivia
=~ enjoy word games (e.g. Scrabble & puzzles)
I read books just for fun
am a good speller (most of the time)
=~n an argument I tend to use put-downs or sarcasm
I like talking and writing about my ideas
=!fI have to memorize something I create a rhyme or saying to
help me remember
_~f something breaks and won't work, I read the instruction book
first
_For a group presentation I preferte do the writing and library
research

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,..--: really enjoy my math class

I like logical math puzzles or brain teasers
~~ find solving math problems to be fun
have to memorize something I tend to place events in a
logical order
1 like to find out how things work
~! enjoy computer and any math games
L-!.love playing chess, checkers or Monopoly
_~n an argument, I tty to fmd a fair and logical solution
_~f something breaks and won't work, I look at the pieces and try
to figure out how it works
_For a group presentation I prefer to create the charts and graphs

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VisualjspatialIntelliaence .

BodilY/Kinesthetic Intelliaence

_! prefer amap to written directions

_~ daydream a lot
_! enJoy hobbles such as photography
_!. like to draw and create

~~Y favourite class is gym since I like sports

:--~ enjoy activities such as woodworking, sewing and

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have to memonze something I draw a diagram to help me

remember

f--! like to doodle on paper whenever I can

building

models
~:Vhen looking at things, I like touching them
have trouble sitting still for any length of time
_~ use a lot of body movements when talking

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_~fI have to memorize something I write it out a number of times

a magazine, I prefer looking at the pictures rather than reading
until I know it
the text
I tend to tap my fingers or play with my pencil during class
_~n an argument I try to keep my distance, keep silent or visualize =!~ a argument I tend to strike out and hit or run away
some solution
_:~ something breaks and won't work I tend to play with the pieces
If something breaks and won't work I tend to study the diagram
to try to fit them together
-~fhow it works
_:,or a group presentation I prefer to move the props around, hold
_For a group presentation I prefer to draw all the pictures
things up or build a model

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Musical/Rhvthmic IntelliQence

InterDersonal IntelliQence

I--! enjoy listening to CD's and the radio

_! get along well with others

I--! tend to hum to myself when working

_~ like to belong to clubs and organizations
I--! like to sing
_~ have several very close fnends
hke helpmg teach other students
I playa musical instrument quite well
~! like to have music playing when doing homework or studying _ ~ hke workmg wrth others In groups
_:fI have to memorize something I try to create a rhyme about the _;nends ask my adVice because I seem to be a natural leader
event
IfI have to memorize something I ask someone to quiz me to see
_ : an argument I tend to shout or punch or move in Some sort of
I know it
rhythm
_~n an argument I tend ask a friend or some person in authority for
can remember the melodies of many songs
help
_~fsomething breaks and won't work I tend to tap my fingers to a _~fsomething breaks and won't work I try to find someone who
beat while I figure it out
can help me
r:.or a group pre~entation I prefer to put new words to a popular _For a group presentation I like to help organize the group's effort:
tune or use musIc

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Intrapersonal Intelligence

Naturalist Intelligence

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like to work alone without anyone bothering me

like to keep a diary
_ ; like myself(most of the time)
_~ don't like crowds
I know what I am good at and what I am weak at
=~ find that I am strong-willed, independent and don't follow the
crowd
I--:rl have to memorize something 1 tend to close my eyes and feel
the situation
I--~n an argument I w:iU usually walk away until I calm down
r~.f something breaks and won't work, I wonder ifit's worth fixing
up
I--~or a group presentation I like to contribute something that is
uniquely mine, often based on how I feel

I-___verbal/Linguistic

_ I am keenly aware of my surroundings and of what goes on

around me
love to go walking in the woods and looking at the trees and
flowers
enjoy. gardening
_~ like to collect things (e.g., rocks, sports cards, stamps. etc)
_~s. an adult, I think r would like to get away from the city and
enJoy nature
_ ~f I hav~ to memorize something, I tend to organize it into
categones
_ : enjoy learning the names ofliving things in our environment,
such as flowers and trees
_:n an argument I tend to compare my opponent to someone or
something I have read or heard about and react accordingly
_:f something breaks down, I look around me to try and see what 1
can find to fix the problem
_;or a group presentation I prefer to organize and classify the
infonnation into categories so it makes sense

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TOTAL SCORE

f-___ Logical/Mathematical

I-___Visual/Spatial

I-___ Bodily/Kinesthetic

!-___ Musical/Rhythmic
f-______Interpersonal

I-___:Intrapersonal
f-___,Naturalist

Greg Gay -Adapted byJ.lvanco, 1998

http://www.1drc.ca/projects/miinventory/mitest.html

3/30/2010