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Gardner's Multiple Intelligences theory includes strategies that cater for the range of human intellect so that students may be supported in their domain of giftedness. He cites nine relatively independent intelligences described below.

The Intelligences:

Visual/ Spatial: learning visually and organising things spatially; might include charts, graphs, maps, tables, illustrations, art, puzzles, costumes - anything eye catching.
Verbal/ Linguistic: the language arts; speaking, writing, reading and listening.
Mathematical/ Logical: an aptitude for numbers, reasoning and problem, solving.
Bodily/ Kinesthetic: learning through activity: games, movement, hands-on tasks and building.
Musical/ Rhythmic: learning through songs, patterns, rhythms, instruments and musical expression.
Intrapersonal: in touch with own feelings, values and ideas, intuition.
Interpersonal: people oriented and outgoing, learning cooperatively in groups or with a partner.
Naturalist: loving the outdoors, animals, field trips, environmentally aware.
Existentialist: curiosity about where humankind stands in the 'big picture' of existence.

The following links provide further information about Multiple Intelligences.

http://www.tecweb.org/eddevel/gardner.html
Howard Gardner of Harvard has identified seven distinct intelligences. This theory has emerged from recent cognitive research and "documents the extent to which students possess different kinds of minds and therefore learn, remember, perform, and understand in different ways," ...

http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed410226.html
Arguing that "reason, intelligence, logic, knowledge are not synonymous...," Howard Gardner (1983) proposed a new view of intelligence that is rapidly being incorporated in school curricula. In his Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Gardner expanded the concept of intelligence to also include such areas as music, spacial relations, and interpersonal knowledge in addition to mathematical and linguistic ability...

http://tip.psychology.org/gardner.html
The theory of multiple intelligences suggests that there are a number of distinct forms of intelligence that each individual possesses in varying degrees. Gardner proposes seven primary forms: linguistic, musical, logical-mathematical, spatial, body-kinesthetic, intrapersonal (e.g., insight, metacognition) and interpersonal (e.g., social skills) ...

http://www.aenc.org/KE-Intelligences.html
AENC agrees with many observers and the key proponent of Multiple Intelligences, Howard Gardner, who have noted that students possess an array of skills and can be highly talented in at least seven distinct areas of mental activity...

http://www.pz.harvard.edu/SUMIT/MISUMIT.HTM
Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences challenges the traditional view of intelligence as a unitary capacity that can be adequately measured by IQ tests...

http://www.swopnet.com/ed/TAG/7_Intelligences.html
Psychologist Howard Gardner identified the following distinct types of intelligence...

http://ss.uno.edu/SS/Theory/MultiIntelLks.html
Multiple Inteligences Links Page...

http://www.richland.cc.il.us/staff/sblahnik/misites.html
Multiple Inteligences Resources...