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VISUAL/SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE. Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences. Visual/Spatial . . . .
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VISUAL/SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
Visual/Spatial . . . • “ . . . the capacity to perceive the visual world accurately, to perform trans-formations and modifications upon one’s initial perceptions, and to be able to recreate aspects of one’s visual experience, even in the absence of relevant physical stimuli . . .” (Howard Gardner)
Aspects of Spatial Intelligence • sensitivity to the relationship between line, color, shape, space, and form • an ability to manipulate and mentally rotate objects
Aspects of Spatial Intelligence • the capacity to create a graphic likeness of a real object • the ability to understand the components of visual and spatial displays within the graphic arts
CAREERS • Graphic artist ~ Surveyor • Architect ~ Navigator • Map-maker ~ Ship captain • Artist ~ Explorer • Urban Planner ~ Mechanic
More CAREERS • Cartoonist • Curator • Chess player • Photographer • Fashion designer • Florist • Graphic designer • Web designer • Interior designer • Pilot • Sailor
HOBBIES • Reading maps • Painting • Playing chess • Drawing diagrams and illustrations • Repairing machinery • Understanding geometry • Completing jigsaw puzzles • Drawing • Orienteering • Taking things apart • Building things • Doodling • Mechanics
More HOBBIES • Sculpting • Diagramming • Models • Mazes • Murals • Ikebana • Photography • Cartooning • Collages • Flow Charts • Origami • Film and video
Respects body, material, environmental boundaries • In the visual realm, but not limited to the visual realm. • Sensory • Creative • Visualization • Organized, though not always conventionally
Offer shape, color, and size variation . . . Offer chances to move, explore, create . . . Blocks, puzzles, gears, nuts and bolts, geometric solids, trinomial and binomial cubes, cylinders, . . . Offer artistic supplies—real paints and sculpture materials and tools if possible, easels, paints, pens, inks, origami papers, . . . Light tables, materials to manipulate on light tables (sand, rice, leaves, etc.), sand and water tables, materials with different textures, smells, sounds . . . In the classroom . . .