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Students with a strong kinesthetic intelligence:

* Seek to interact with their environment
* Enjoy hands-on activities
* Can remain focused on a hands-on task for an extended period of time
* May demonstrate strong fine and/or gross motor ability
* Prefer learning centers to seat work
* Seek out other students who are physically gregarious
* Master a principle once they can manipulate materials that demonstrate the concept
* Enjoy group games and active learning tasks
* Are different from children who are hyperactive

Support this intelligence in the classroom by:

* Providing hands-on learning centers
* Incorporating creative drama into your instruction
* Including interactive games in reviewing and remediating content
* Offering experiences in movement to rhythm and music
* Engaging students in hands-on science experiments
* Utilizing manipulatives in math instruction
* Allowing opportunities for building and taking apart
* Encouraging students to construct physical representations of concepts
* Keeping students physically moving throughout the school day

Technologies that stimulate this intelligence:

* Construction tools
* Kitchen utensils
* Screw
* Lever
* Wheel and axle
* Inclined plane
* Pulley
* Wedge
* Physical education equipment
* Manipulative materials
* Mouse
* Joystick
* Simulations that require eye-hand coordination
* Assistive technologies
* Digital probes

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