Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences, Bloom’s Taxonomy

Display a facility with words and languages.

They are typically good at reading, writing, telling stories and memorizing words along with dates. They learn best through reading, hearing and seeing words, speaking, writing, discussing and debating.

Ability to think conceptually andabstractly, and capacity to discern logical and numerical patterns. They are strong in reasoning, logic, problem-solving, and patterns. They like to solve problems, question, work with numbers or experiment. They learn best through working with patterns and relationships, classifying, categorizing, and working with the abstract.

Capacity to think in images and pictures, tovisualize accurately and abstractly. Interpretation and creation of visual images, pictorial imagination and expression. They understand relationships between imagesand meanings and between space and effect. They are strong in reading, maps, charts, drawing, mazes, puzzles, imaging things, and visualization.

They like to design, draw, build, create and daydream. They learn best through working with pictures and colors, visualizing and drawing.

Ability to control one's body movementsand to handle objects skillfully. They understand eye and body coordination, have manual dexterity and physical agility and balance.

They are strong in athletics, dancing, acting, crafts and using tools. They like to move around, touch and talk, and utilize body language. Learns best through touching, moving, processing knowledge through bodily sensations.

Ability to produce and appreciate rhythm, pitchand timber. Awareness, appreciationand use of sound, recognition of tonal andrhythmic patterns, understands relationshipbetween sound and feeling. They are strong in singing, picking up sounds, remembering melodies, rhythms.

They like to sing, hum, play an instrument, and listen to music. They learn best through rhythm, melody, singing, listening to music, and melodies.

Characterized by their sensitivity to others' moods, feelings, temperaments, motivations, and their ability to cooperate in order to work as part of a group. They are strong in understanding people, leading, organizing, communicating, resolving conflicts, selling.

They like to have friends, talk to people, and join groups. They learn best through sharing, comparing, relating, interviewing, and cooperating.

This area has to do with introspective and self-reflective capacities. This refers to having a deep understanding of the self; what one's strengths or weaknesses are, what makes one unique, being able to predict one's own reactions or emotions.

They like to work alone work alone, reflect, pursue interests. They learn best through working alone, doing self paced projects, having space, and reflecting.

Ability to recognize and categorize plants,animals and other objects in nature. This area has to do with nurturing and relating information to one's natural surroundings. They are strong in understanding nature, making distinctions, identifying flora and fauna. They like to be involved with nature, and make distinctions.

They learn best through working in nature, exploring things, and learning about plants and natural events.

Students are expected to retrieve information from memory, but aren't expected to change it in any way.

Students are building new connections in their minds.

Certain procedures or steps are expected to be followed in order to answer new problems.

Students utilize lower-level thinking skills to identify key elements and examine each part.

Informational sources are examined to assess their quality and decisions and made based on identified criteria.

Learners organize information in a new or different way.

You learn by hearing and listening. You understand and remember things you have heard. You store information by the way it sounds, and you have an easier time understanding spoken instructions than written ones. You often learn by reading out loud because you have to hear it or speak it in order to know it.

You probably hum or talk to yourself or others if you become bored. People may think you are not paying attention, even though you may be hearing and understanding everything being said.

You learn by reading or seeing pictures. You understand and remember things by sight. You can picture what you are learning in your head, and you learn best by using methods that are primarily visual. You like to see what you are learning.

You are usually neat and clean. You often close your eyes to visualize or remember something, and you will find something to watch if you become bored. You may have difficulty with spoken directions and may be easily distracted by sounds. You are attracted to color and to spoken language (like stories) that is rich in imagery.

You learn by touching and doing. You understand and remember things through physical movement.

You are a "hands-on" learner who prefers to touch, move, build, or draw what you learn, and you tend to learn better when some type of physical activity is involved. You need to be active and take frequent breaks, you often speak with your hands and with gestures, and you may have difficulty sitting still. You like to take things apart and put things together, and you tend to find reasons to tinker or move around when you become bored. You may be very well coordinated and have good athletic ability. You can easily remember things that were done but may have difficulty remembering what you saw or heard in the process.

You often communicate by touching, and you appreciate physically expressed forms of encouragement, such as a pat on the back.