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GLENDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
VERO BEACH, FLORIDA

"GETTING TO KNOW YOU"

IDEAS FOR CROSS-AGE TUTORING

C. MacDonald & S. Trachte

1. Children will cut out pictures, words, etc. from a newspaper that express who they are. Paste on construction paper.
   
2. Each student will read their favorite book to the other. Explain why it is the favorite. This can be continued throughout the year.
   
3. Students will draw a portrait of the other student; or a self-portrait of how he sees himself.
   
4. Students will complete a "fun" questionnaire and tape-record their responses.
   
5. Students will write "pen pal" letters to each other.
   

J. Castle, L. Ragsdale, M. Luethje

1. Children will interview each other, list three facts.
2. Children will draw a portrait of each other. Trade portraits.
3. Share a favorite book.
4. Children will make a friendship chain of paper rings to keep.
5. Children will create a book. One will scribe, the other will illustrate.

J. Collins, T. Strazzulla, B. Harrison

1. Children will use newspaper clippings to describe each other.
   
2. Children will make a Venn diagram about their commonalties and a difference.
   
3. Children will make a bulletin board entitled "All About Me", including snapshots.
   
4. Children will share a home video with their buddies.
   
5. Children will write a letter describing themselves, using adjectives and and good descriptions. The other students will read the letters and try to find the person described.
   

D. Snyder, E. Koch

1. Children will socialize with a cooking activity.
   
2. Older children will help younger children write their names.
   
3. Older children will read a story to the younger children.
   
4. Cookie jar game.
   
5. Children will plant a garden together.
   

C. Wilson, J. McLeod, P. Piche

1. Older children will join in younger children's "circle time".
   
2. Older children will put their shoes in a pile. Younger children find a pair and get together with their "shoeless" partner. Then, they compare shoe sizes, where they bought their shoes, trace each other's feet, compare, etc.
   
3. Children will share a building activity using blocks, etc.
   
4. Children will play together and share playgrounds.
   
5. Children will share a cooking activity.
   

B. Nelson, B. Hett, D. Weidner

1. Children will finger-paint together.
   
2. Children will compare how they feel about different topics, i.e. thunder- storms.
   
3. Children will read together.
   
4. Younger children will dictate a story to the older child.
   
5. Children will draw a portrait of each other.
   

J. Kalk, P. Lundell, D. Strickland

1. Children will make a collage of pictures to describe themselves. Share.
   
2. Teacher will use "Getting to Know You" index cards. She holds up a card that says "has a puppy". Students who have a puppy stand by that card. Use a variety of topics. Discuss similarities and differences.
   
3. Children will interview each other and introduce that person to the group.
   
4. Children will rotate through "game stations" where they play different games at each station.
   
5. Children will make Venn diagrams about their likes and differences.
   

D. Gowland, N. Galley, J. Egan

1. Children will hold hands in a circle. They will tell the person next to them their name and something about their class.
   
2. Children will draw self portraits.
   
3. Children will make a "friendship chain" with three ideas about oneself and hang in the room.
   
4. Children will put something about themselves in a balloon. Younger child pops the balloon and tries to find the balloon creator.
   
5. Children will trace their bodies and put 2 ideas on the picture.
   

L. Morris, A. Strawder

1. Children will pair up by matching the same color clothes.
   
2. Children will work a puzzle together.
   
3. Children will tell a story together into a tape recorder.
   
4. Children will play the "wheelbarrow" game.
   
5. Children will make a Venn diagram comparing their likes and differences in food.
   

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Multiple Intelligences Lesson Plans

Kindergarten

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Theme: "Book, The Mitten"
Grade: Kindergarten

• Linguistic: Create big book - Mitten (in shape of)
  
• Math: Let children explore different materials to discover properties (which well stretch)
  
• Visual/Spatial: Make animals for Big Book
  
• Musical/Art: Make tape of different animal sounds - children will identify
  
• Body Kinesthetic: Act out the story
  
• Interpersonal: Act out the story
  
• Intrapersonal: Make own mitten and lace
  
• Naturalistic: Invite pet store person to bring animals to classroom
  

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Theme: Quality Friendship
Grade: Kindergarten

• Linguistic: Make a class book of friends
  
• Math: Count valentines they will send to friends Graph similar valentines
  
• Visual/Spatial: Map to a friends house
  
• Musical/Art: Make tape of different animal sounds - children will identify
  
• Body Kinesthetic: Play on playground with a new friend
  
• Interpersonal: Make a friendship card to send to a friend
  
• Intrapersonal: Act out "How to be a Friend"
  
• Naturalistic: Watch how ants work cooperatively
  

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First Grade

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Theme: Butterflies
Grade: First

• Intrapersonal: Make a "Butterfly Magnet"
  
• Linguistic: Write a story or simple poem about butterflies or create a big class book
  
• Math: Sequence of "stages of butterflies"
  
• Visual/Spatial: Create a Diorama of a "Meadow with Butterflies"
  
• Body kinesthetic/ Listen to classical music & interpretive - Musical: movements of a butterfly
  
• Naturalistic: Plant a butterfly garden; choose flowers that attract butterflies or acquire a butter- fly "hatching" kit
  
• Literature: "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"
  
• Interpersonal: Create a giant Butterfly Cookie as a "Team Project - enjoyed by all
  

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Theme: "Polar Express 2"
Grade: First

• Literature: Share story with students
  
• Visual/Spatial: Make their own "Train engine" out of candy
• Linguistic: Write a letter to Santa telling what each student wants for their first gift of Christmas
  
• Musical: Compare the sounds of different size bells and create a melody
  
• Math: Make a graph of gift choices
  
• Intrapersonal: Draw a map from your house (emphasizing the direction "North") to the North Pole
  
• Interpersonal: Make a snow scene in small groups
  

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Second Grade

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Theme: "Stone Soup" Contest
Grade: Second

• Linguistic: Story outline: characters, setting, problem/ solution - retell story, choose characters and setting
  
• Math: Measure, weigh, estimate ingredients, fractions, cutting
  
• Logic/Problem Solving: How did the characters create the soup?
  
• Visual/Spatial: Compare vegetables being used by color, shape and size; make class mural of the story
  
• Musical: Create a "rap" for Stone Soup
  
• Body Kinesthetic: Peel and cut vegetables, eat soup!!
  
• Interpersonal-People Skit of "Stone Soup"
  
• Intrapersonal- Read (4) versions, choose version you like best and tell why, write in journal
  
• Naturalistic: Study how they grow
  

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Fourth Grade

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Theme: Everglades
Grade: Fourth

• Linguistic: List as many animals as you know live there
  
• Math, Logic: Create word problems based on animal facts problem solving
  
• Visual/Spatial: Illustrate/Model/Diorama of Animal Habitat
  
• Musical: Sounds of animals, reproduce sounds of everglades
  
• Body Kinesthetic: Pantomime animal actions
  
• Interpersonal: Locate other animals in your food chain
  
• Intrapersonal: Choose animal and write a report
  
• Naturalistic: Pet store/wildlife ranger presentation (live)
  

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Theme: "Where the Red Fern Grows"
Grade: Fourth

• Linguistic: Read the book
  
• Math, Logic: Make a plan to earn X amount of $ in a problem solving 2-year period
  
• Visual/Spatial: Design a humane trap or a visual display of Ozark Mountain culture
  
• Musical: Play (live) mountain music & sing along
  
• Body Kinesthetic: Dress as Billy
  
• Interpersonal: Same as Visual/Spatial group
  
• Intrapersonal: Write your own ending to the story or describe how the dogs affected a character in the book, or how the raccoon felt when he was trapped.
  
• Naturalistic: Prepare and eat a food from the Ozark's culture
  

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Theme: Sharing, event & quality
Grade: Fourth

• Linguistic: Read/discuss story "The Doorbell Rang" by Pat Hutchins
  
• Math: (problem solving) Write (3) problems on sharing
  
• Visual/Spatial: Draw pictures/make cookies to demonstrate story
  
• Musical: Create a "rap" to tell the story
  
• Body Kinesthetic: Act out the story
  
• Interpersonal: Make a bulletin board to show display
  
• Intrapersonal: Write a recipe and draw your own cookie
  
• Naturalistic: Make and bring in favorite cookie and share
  

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Fifth Grade

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Theme: "Rainforest" 2
Grade: Fifth

• Listening: Trivial pursuit game using facts gathered about the rainforest
  
• Reading: Linguistic Read "The Great Kapok Tree"
  
• Writing: Write a story - you are trapped in a rain forest. Write about what you see, hear, feel, smell, and taste.
  
• Interpersonal/ Body Kinesthetic Do a play on the rainforest
  
• Science: "Are You My Mother?" Match mother/baby animals that are in the rainforest.
  
• Visual: Paint snakes made out of driftwood
  
• Math: Make graphs and charts on destruction of rainforest. Linear and area measure of height & area of things in the rainforest
  
• Music: Make sounds of rainforest with different objects
  

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Theme: Event - Space Exploration
Grade: Fifth

• Listening: Make a tape being the reporter & being interpersonal, the astronaut taking off on a launch.
  
• Reading/Linguistic: "The Little Prince"
  
• Science/Spacial: Go visit Kennedy Space Center & a planet- arium
  
• Writing/Interpersonal Write a letter to an astronaut
  
• Math/Logical (problem solving) Measurements from planet to planet, Earth to planets
  
• Body Kinesthetic: Children move as planets to show rotation
  
• Music: David Bowie "Major Tom" song
  
• Art: Make your own planetarium