TAMPA BAPTIST ACADEMY
TAMPA, FLORIDA
Multiple Intelligences Lesson Plans
Theme: History of Slavery
Grade: 6th-12th
Text: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
Linguistic: Create posters of slave auctions.
Interpersonal: Inerview African-American studies professor on the subject.
Intrapersonal: Create a model of a sailing ship.
Logical-Math: Draw charts (based on research of the slave trade) analyzing information
concerning years, populations, money involved, number and types of ships, countries involved.
Body-Kinesthetic: Learn and demonstrate rope techniques used on sailing ships.
Visual-Spatial: Create a bulletin board summarizing the research from the unit.
Musical: Play a fife and drum. Learn colonial songs.
Naturalistic: Take a trip to a harbor town and interview fishing boat captains about sailing, the
ocean, and weather.
Author: Michelle Dean, Tampa Baptist Academy
Theme: Problems of Growing Up
Grade: 6th-12th
Text: Phillip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe by B. Greene
Linguistic: Study dialect and accent distinctions demonstrated in the book. Create a story with
three different dialectical styles.
Interpersonal: Write a letter to the author to find out conditions needed to create a book.
Math: Build charts and graphs that depict a plan for the raising the money needed to get Beth to
college in 2000.
Visual-Spatial: Design a bulletin board based on a favorite chapter. Teams of five students
design, organize, and create the bulletin board. Each team displays their bulletin board during the
time their chapters are being discussed.
Intrapersonal: Research allergies. What types and cures are there?
Musical: Create a poem/rap with one verse covering the plot in each chapter.
Naturalistic: Study the region Phillip gets lost in. What survival problems could he encounter?
Plan a field trip to a state park. Interview park rangers concerning ideas for surviving in the
wilderness.
Body-Kinesthetic: Plan and play a relay race similar to the one encountered by the Pretty Pennies
and the Tigers.
Cross-Age Tutoring: Divide the class into chapter groups. Each group plans a dramatization of
the assigned chapter. These dramatizations are presented to a younger class.
Author: Michelle Dean, Tampa Baptist Academy
Theme: Eating Disorders
Grade: 6th-12th
Text: Nell's Quilt by Susan Terry
Linguistic: Print a newspaper with articles on eating disorders.
Interpersonal: Build a website on the internet for information on this problem.
Intrapersonal: Write a journal entry about the quilt. What does it symbolize? How does the
symbol change?
Body-Kinesthetic: Dramatize key scenes in the story and create a quilt.
Naturalistic: Find items during a nature walk and build a craft, like Nell's quilt, that tells a story.
Musical: Listen to Karen Carpenter's albums. Is there any indication that she is struggling? Why
or why not?
Logic: Measure parts of the body and figure % fat, bone and other statistics related to self-
starvation.
Visual-Spatial: Do a science experiment on food calories and diet.
Author: Michelle Dean, Tampa Baptist Academy
Theme: Constitutional Rights
Grade: 9th-12th
Text: Miriam's Well by Lois Ruby
Biblical Integration: Do a word study through the Old and New Testament on Freedom.
Linguistic: Prepare a TV news script interviewing the key people in the book.
Intrapersonal: Watch the movie (Losing Isaiah) and respond to the issues. Research Blockbuster
or other video stores for movies about similar constitutional issues.
Interpersonal: Surf the internet for other newsgroups and bulletin boards discussing constitutional
issues and the loss of freedom.
Body-Kinesthetic: Design your own exercise program similar to the book.
Logical: Build a model of a bone scanner and explain the process.
Visual-Spatial: Have a lawyer speak about the relevant cases of the Supreme Court and children.
Musical: Write a song with lyrics using P.O.V.
Naturalistic: Grow medicinal herbs and learn how to use them.
Author: Michelle Dean, Tampa Baptist Academy
Theme: Immigration
Grade: 6th-12th
Text: Song of the Silent Harp
Bible Theme: God is the author of the family
Linguistic: Read book and research statistics on immigration in American history.
Intrapersonal: Look up journals of immigrants. Write a response journal from your readings.
Interpersonal: Build a drama from one scene in the book.
Logical: Do research for a family tree. Discover from relatives as much about your family as
possible. Check to see if family members have studied geneology methods. Include a field trip to
a geneology museum.
Body-Kinesthetic: Create a bulletin board/posters from information gathered from other groups.
Visual-Spatial: Draw a family chart history.
Musical: Learn the words to either ballads from your homeland or Ireland. Write a reaction
paragraph to the music.
Cross-Age Tutoring: Present your family trees to an elementary class. Assist them in creating a
family tree of their family or of a famous person.
Author: Michelle Dean, Tampa Baptist Academy
Theme: American Settlers
Grade: 6th-8th
Text: Little House on Rocky Ridge
Cross-Age Tutoring: Have older students read the chapters to elementary students in small
teams. Let the older students create one activity for each chapter.
Linguistic: Write a chapter from either Paul or Alva's point of view.
Intrapersonal: Create a quilt by hand from remnants found around the house.
Interpersonal: Interview settlers in your hometown. What impacted their lives?
Logical: Sketch a map of the journey to Missouri. Contrast that journey with what was and what
has changed in 102 years.
Visual-Spatial: Build a model of a covered wagon.
Musical: Using the songs presented in the book, learn the history of them and perform them for
the class.
Body-Kinesthetic: Go to Cracker Country at the State Fair.
Naturalistic: Using the animals mentioned in the book, explain the necessary conditions for their
survival as well as current agricultural statistics on them.
Author: Michelle Dean, Tampa Baptist Academy
Theme: Learning
Grade: 6th-8th
Text: My Posse Don't Do Homework
Interpersonal: Divide the class into lesson groups. Let each group teach one lesson in their own
unique style to the class. Encourage creativity and experimentation. Let the class decide if any of
these new techniques should be continued in the instructional program.
Intrapersonal: Observe two different instructional techniques and write notes on their strengths
and weaknesses. Discuss the methods of instruction with your discussion team.
Linguistic: Create a slang vocabulary list from the text. Rewrite the list with correct grammar
usage.
Body-Kinesthetic: Craft a tool that Mrs. J. would use in her classroom. Use the tool.
Visual-Spatial: With a camera or camcorder take pictures of various images that relate to various
chapters. Explain the connection.
Musical: Rap verses contrasting point of view of Mrs. J. versus the kids.
Naturalistic: Go out to park, farm, woods or river and observe the life lessons visible in nature.
Author: Michelle Dean, Tampa Baptist Academy
Theme: Survival and Loneliness (3)
Grades: 6th-8th
Text: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Interpersonal: Delegate to a student team the job of planning a scavenger hunt of things Karana
used. Be creative.
Intrapersonal: Design either on paper or a model your interpretation of the island.
Linguistic: Make a poem from Karana's point of view or your own if you were in her situation.
Body-Kinesthetic: Go on a scavenger hunt.
Musical: Create a video or audio tape of sounds Karana might have heard.
Math-Logic: Draw a map of Karana's island. Use a map key and distances to scale. Place the key
items from the book - otters, cave, canoes, bay, chest, lair, etc.
Visual-Spatial: Create a story board of key events in the heroine's life.
Naturalistic: Make a tool using things from nature. Demonstrate its usefulness.
Author: Michelle Dean, Tampa Baptist Academy
Theme: Historical Lifestyles
Grades: 6th - 8th
Text: Little House in the Ozarks by R.L. MacBride
Interpersonal: Use the internet to search for more information, especially from primary sources,
of people that knew Rose and her family or the Ozark area.
Intrapersonal: What evidence is there that Rose is or is not self smart? Write a paper discussing
it.
Linguistic: DEAR - Drop Everything And Read
Body-Kinesthetic: Build a fishing pole like Rose did. Use it!
Spatial: Create a pattern of Rose's clothes.
Musical: Perform and research songs in the book.
Naturalistic: Plant a garden using only the tools from the appropriate time period.
Logical-Math: Build a model of Rose's cabin to scale.
Author: Michelle Dean, Tampa Baptist Academy
Theme: Navaho Studies
Grades: 6th-10th
Text: Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell
Interpersonal: Research Navaho folk tales and dramatize them.
Intrapersonal: Teach students the importance of Navahos and their contributions during WWII.
Linguistic: Research and learn Navaho vocabulary.
Body-Kinesthetic: Plan a retreat in a state park or wilderness area. Have the students practice
cooking over fires and planning full menus.
Spatial: Create a picture book-either of the story of the trail or the entire story in the book.
Musical: Visit a local Native American reservation and record their music.
Naturalistic: Live outdoors without modern conveniences. Report on your findings.
Logical-Math: Lay out map with key and various compass directions.
Author: Michelle Dean, Tampa Baptist Academy
Theme: Man's Idea of a Perfect World
Grades: 8th-12th
Text: The Giver by Lois Lensky; Fahrenheit 451; 1984 by George Orwell
Linguistic: Read all three books and present what has already occurred in our world.
Intrapersonal: Make a model of the city of the future.
Interpersonal: Research as a team the original intent the founding fathers had for the first
amendment.
Logical: Create a map of "the city" from the book. Write a paragraph explaining the differences
between this futuristic city and your own town.
Visual-Spatial: Science experiments on memory and superlearning.
Musical: Write a list of sounds that would be eliminated in the book.
Naturalistic: Go outside-Contrast today with the settings in the three books. Come up with 30
contrasts and evaluate your preferences.
Author: Michelle Dean, Tampa Baptist Academy
Theme: The Irish Famine
Grades: 8th-12th
Text: Heart of the Lonely Exile
Linguistic: Write for information on the history of Ireland's famine and for information on current
famine relief efforts.
Intrapersonal: Evaluate this statement in relation to your own life: "We have a calling to be
compassionate to the hungry and homeless."
Math: Build a world map indicating famine areas across the continents. Link countries with
ribbons showing which countries are providing food and medical support to these famine areas.
Interpersonal: Create a fundraiser in your school for a Famine Relief Organization.
Body-Kinesthetic: Build a potato garden. Harvest it.
Logical: Research and graph the cause and results of famine across the world.
Visual: Make maps of food growth and consumption.
Musical: Blend words and music together to create a song that portrays the devastation of the
Irish Famine.
Author: Michelle Dean, Tampa Baptist Academy
Theme: Sea Turtles (Kindergarten)
Book: Sea Turtle's Journey
Author: Larraine A. Jay
Multiple Intelligences:
Visual Spatial - 1) Video on turtles. 2) Identify geographical location of story on a map.
3) Draw the different habitats that turtles live in.
Linguistic - Students build hand puppets and retell story.
Body Kinesthetic - Act out turtles swimming and coming out on land.
Math - Count all the different sea life in the story.
Logical Problem Solving - 1) Build a chart of other sea creatures not mentioned in the story.
2) Identify different turtles not found in the story.
Interpersonal - Work in teams of 2 to make a diorama showing the sea creatures.
Intrapersonal - Select a book from the classroom library about turtles.
Naturalistic - Go to the zoo and observe different turtles.
Authors: Martha Jane Morehead and Phyllis Masters
Theme: Bears (Kindergarten)
Book: Snow on Bear's Nose (Story of Japanese Moon Bear Cub)
Author: Jennifer Bartoli
Lesson Plans
Multiple Intelligences:
Visual Spatial - Learn about Asiatic black bears and moon bears with the white fur crescent on
the chest.
Logical Problem-Solving- Hibernation - How do bears know it is time to sleep? (Change in
weather, thick fur)
Linguistic - Japanese words - Kuma (boy), chan (little bear), Kumako (girl).
Music - Play "Bear Comes Over the Mountain" and act out the Finger Plays.
Body Kinesthetic - Act out the story using Japanese face masks.
Authors: Phyllis Masters and Martha Jane Morehead
Theme: Rivers
Book: River Friends
Author: Kathleen Kelly
Activities:
1) Field trip to Hillsborough State Park and/or Lettuce Lake Park to talk about the environment
of rivers.
2) Walk the boardwalk, paths, and bridges.
3) Observe the river. Discuss the differences between rapids and river fords.
4) Take a hike in the woods- Point out the differences in the trees.
5) Go on a bug hunt - Draw the different shapes of bugs.
6) When the class returns to school, have them draw a class mural of the entire experience.
Authors: Martha Jane Morehead and Phyllis Masters
Theme: Perseverance (Kindergarten)
Book: The Hole in the Dike
Author: Norma Green
Multiple Intelligences:
Visual-Spatial - Locate Holland on a map. Collect pictures of the country (sea dikes, windmills,
wooden shoes, tulips, houses).
Linguistic - Learn Dutch words and phrases.
Body Kinesthetic - Discuss how windmills work. Make pinwheels and kites. Take the class
outside to experiment with kite flying.
Music - Collect music from Holland. Find poems about the country.
Math/Logic Problem-Solving - Have the class figure out how long the boy held his finger in the
dike. Use clocks.
Interpersonal - Each team makes a diorama with dikes, water, and sandbags.
Intrapersonal - Discuss the idea of keeping at a job, even if you are alone. Draw what we do by
ourselves.
Naturalistic - Trip to the river, bay, ocean, lake. Discuss the differences between these bodies of
water.
Authors: Phyllis Masters and Martha Jane Morehead
Theme: Families/Night (Kindergarten)
Book: In Window Eight, The Moon is Late
Author: Diane Warfolk Allison
Activities:
1) Summer family activities; Who lives in your house? Draw a picture of something your family
does together.
2) Responsibilities at home: Have the students talk about their personal responsibilities as part
of the family and then make drawings of these activities.
3) Night - Discussion - Does anyone fear the darkness? How can we overcome these fears?
4) Rhyming - Write short poems about families and night time. Cross-Age Tutoring project -
Have the kindergarten children work with fifth graders. Illustrate the poems.
Authors: Martha Jane Morehead and Phyllis Masters
Theme: Honesty/Obedience (Kindergarten)
Book: The Pied Piper
Author: German Folktale
Activities:
1) Locate Germany on the map.
2) Discuss the differences between folktales and realistic fiction.
3) Discuss the importance of people keeping their promises.
4) Compare pipes and flutes - What are the differences in the sound?
5) Discussion - Why did the children follow the piper?
6) Discussion - Why were the people in the town punished?
Authors: Phyllis Masters and Martha Jane Morehead
Theme: Cats
Book: My Cats Nick and Nora
Author: Isabelle Harper
Activities:
1) Learn about different kinds of cats. Collect pictures for a class mural.
2) Build a characteristics chart for wild and domesticated cats.
3) Bring a cat to school - Observe how he plays, what he tries to do.
4) Make up a story about cats. Create a class Big Book.
5) Draw a picture of your cat or a cat you would like to own.
6) Search for a movie about cats (Homeward Bound).
Authors: Martha Jane Morehead and Phyllis Masters
Theme: Humility (Kindergarten)
Book: Rachel Parker Kindergarten Show-Off
Author: Ann Martin
Activities:
1) Role play how friends should act toward each other.
2) Talk about how it feels to be lonely and not have anyone to play with. Come to some
understanding of why people do what they do.
3) Discussion - When families move, is it tough? Are there problems when you go to a new
school and try to meet new friends?
4) Sharing - Draw pictures of something the children could do for a new friend.
Authors: Martha Jane Morehead and Phyllis Masters