Visual Intelligence
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Visual Intelligence Visual learning is when a student learns through seeing. They need pictures and need to be able to create, or visualize in their minds what they are learning. Their skills include: puzzle building, reading, writing, understanding charts and graphs, a good sense of direction, sketching, painting, creating visual metaphors and analogies (perhaps through the visual arts), manipulating images, constructing, fixing, designing practical objects, interpreting visual images (Bogod, 1998).
For the Visual Intelligence we will be doing a
Reader’s Theater Abraham Lincoln By Sarah Kartchner Clark A Reader’s theater with five parts You can find this script on the following website http://books.google.com/books?id=mXINB6PRXOcC&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48&dq=readers+theater+Abraham +Lincoln&source=web&ots=r_eEoo-4WO&sig=ZDBQnxQt2tM4m6KGj3NPNPdsnlM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_ result&resnum=8&ct=result#PPA48,M1
To integrate Visual Intelligence in your classroom, you need to make the students feel as if they are there. In this case, we want the students to think that they are back in Abraham Lincoln’s time.
When doing readers theater, for the children to remember the content, helping them re-live it will really help. First, the children need to feel like they are there, so you will need props. If you have a drama department, you may ask them for clothing. If you do not have a drama department, you may asks your local high school. They are usually really good about helping out the younger children. You may even just find clothes around your house or at yard sales. You should not spend a lot of money on this. Children do have a great imagination.
Pictures can help them visualize the scenery around them.
The ladies in long puffy dresses and the horse and carriage will help them visualize how the ladies dressed and how people got around then.
These pictures show how the men dressed.
Examples of some the houses people lived in. The Plantation houses were real popular.
They love to sit on the porch and play music and sing
Farming was a way of life. Most children today, do not know anything about farming.
References Bogod, L. (1998). LdPride. Retrieved October 19, 2008 from http://www.ldpride.netlearningstyles.MI.htm#Verbal/Linguistic%20Intelligence Kartchner Clark, S. (2006). Reader's Theater Scripts Improve Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension Grade 5. Huntington Beach, CA: Shell Education.