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Musical/ Rythmic (Source: Walter McKenzie www.surfaquarium.com)
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Students with a strong rhythmic intelligence:

* Seek patterns in new information
* Find patterns in their environment
* Are particularly drawn to sound
* Respond to cadence in language
* Enjoy moving to rhythms
* Pick up terms and phrases in foreign languages easily
* Use patterning to both internalize and recall skills, ideas and concepts


Support this intelligence in the classroom by:

* Working with pattern blocks
* Hearing sounds in one's environment
* Moving to rhythm
* Drawing visual patterns
* Learning a foreign language
* Identifying rhyme schemes
* Finding patterns in sequences of numbers
* Listening to a symphony
* Deciphering code
* Learning to read music


Technologies that stimulate this intelligence:

* Pattern blocks
* Puzzles
* Musical instruments
* Phonograph
* Headphones
* Tape player/recorder
* Digital sounds
* Online pattern games
* Multimedia presentations
* Speakers
* CD ROM disks
* CD ROM player