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Naturalist - (Source: Walter McKenzie - www.surfaquarium.com)
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Students with a strong naturalist intelligence:

* Are intrinsically organized
* Demonstrate an empathy with nature
* Pick up on subtle differences in meaning
* Like to make collections of materials
* Enjoy sorting and organizing materials
* Impose their own sense of order on new information
* Respond to semantic mapping activities
* Prefer charts, tables, diagrams and timelines


Support this intelligence in the classroom by:

* Using graphic organizers
* Providing sorting and attribute grouping tasks
* Brainstorming categories
* Charting hierarchies
* Utilizing semantic mapping of ideas
* Building portfolios of student work
* Making connections to the natural world
* Modeling strategies for finding common attributes, categories and hierarchies across the curriculum


Technologies that stimulate this intelligence:

* Magnifying glass
* Microscope
* Telescope
* Bug box
* Scrap book
* Sandwich bag
* Plastic container
* Database
* Laserdisc
* Floppy drive
* File manager
* Semantic mapping tools