TMI+Student+Sharing

TMI students are to use this page to share things they have found related to learning about the brain and multiple intelligences.

Great video from the Key School about Flow Rooms: [] Charity Upchurch

I discovered a great site for spatial activities - Canon Creative Park. You can make almost anything out of paper using their downloadable/printable templates. [] -- Sara Waugh

Here is a great link with information on the Primacy-Recency Effect and Retention Rates by Lesson Type: [] -- Jamie Demson

This came off my Twitter stream. It's a link to 100 different ideas for incorporating different learning styles into your teaching. Some of the applications are kind of a stretch, but it is certainly a good list worth looking at if you are somewhat tech-savvy. [|100 Helpful Online Tools for Teachers] --Jason Schmidt

I subscribe to a blog at http://www.langwitches.org. The author of this blog shares a bunch of interesting resources, and this week the author shared this online MI assessment test. http://www.literacyworks.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html. --Jason Schmidt

http://www.songsforteaching.com has a wide variety of songs for all subjects and ages. - Judy Stucky

Brain Rule #10 - Vision trumps all when the brain learns http://clive-shepherd.blogspot.com/2009/06/brain-rule-10.html Clive Shepherd is an elearning specialist/author. His blog is very insightful. --Jason Schmidt

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain/view/ Video from PBS - Inside the Teenage Brain. Interesting information. --Jason Schmidt

http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/index.html Sparklebox is a free website with literally thousands of worksheets, posters, graphics, etc. A great resource for reaching spatial intelligence. --Jason Schmidt

http://www.jigsawplanet.com/ This site will take any photograph you send it and create a virtual jigsaw puzzle out of it. This could be a great activity if you have an interactive white board. --Jason Schmidt

http://science.discovery.com/tv/space-week/solar-symphony/solar-symphony.html A really neat way to teach about the planets of the solar system in a musical/visual way. --Jason Schmidt

http://widgenie.com/ Take math data from a spreadsheet and turn it into a chart. Great way to meet the needs of those visual/spatial students. --Jason Schmidt

http://www.cellsalive.com/ Visual/spatial way to teach students about cells. Interactive animations that discuss different parts of cells, mitosis, and meiosis. --Jason Schmidt

http://www.personal.psu.edu/bxb11/MI/index.htm A brief overview of MI theory. Includes a quiz to check your understanding and an online inventory that will determine your top 2 intelligences.

http://www.rain.org/~philfear/download-a-dinosaur.html At this website, children can download paper templates of dinosaurs, print them out on regular printer paper, color them, cut them out, and assemble them into 3D models of the creatures. This is a great way to tap into those naturalist/spatial intelligences. --Jason Schmidt

A video of Mihaly CSIK.... talking about FLOW. About 19minutes long. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.html - Jen Renault

http://www.numbernut.com/index.html Meet the needs of those Mathematical/Logical students with these activities. --Jason Schmidt

Here at the end of class, I have two things to share with y'all: http://docs.google.com/View?id=d2mb7w5_16ftmskgfv Here is a link to our handout from the MI fair. Feel free to view it there and print it off/bookmark it. It will not go anywhere. Also, if you liked the resources that I have shared here, you can check out a lot more that I have discovered by visiting the following web address: http://www.diigo.com/user/jasonschmidt123.

The link for the Flash-based Jeopardy game from the MI Fair - Mike Berck []

Here is the link for Westpoint Bridge Builder. This is the bridge building activity that was in the logical/mathematic booth at the MI fair, the download is free. Brandon Thoene []