< Return

Core Characteristics:

• Aural Orientation – heightened listening ability
• Patterning – seeking all kinds of patterns, not just in sound
• Resonance - identification with patterns as an expression of experience
• Audiation – thinking musically rather than verbally

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