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|  |  |  | Naturalist - (Source: Walter McKenzie - www.surfaquarium.com) 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
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