WEB DuBois High School - In What Ways Am I Intelligent?

Circle the numbers of those actions you love to do

1. doing hard physical work
2. categorizing objects
3. telling jokes and stories
4. teaching how to make important decisions about nature
5. identifying plants and animals
6. experimenting with new musical instruments
7. making designs
8. thinking deeply about how you are changing
9. doing and making things with others
10. teaching others how to do things
11. writing notes, letters or journal entries
12. decorating

13. identifying sounds in the environment

14. operating equipment
15. working alone
16. teaching how to be sensitive to others
17. working with numbers, calculators, or budgets
18. interpreting signs and patterns in the environment
19. drawing, illustrating or painting
20. editing and proofreading
21. preserving and protecting natural resources
22. modifying tunes and melodies
23. brainstorming with others
24. using exercise equipment
25. assessing your strengths, weaknesses and motivations

26. teaching how to do math and reason logically

27. competing in a sport
28. teaching how to visualize and represent
29. listening to audiotapes
30. using the resources in nature
31. teaching how to express an d communicate
32. singing
33. translating
34. fixing, assembling or building
35. making personal connections among subjects
36. experimenting or proving things
37. meeting people in social events
38. learning about my own culture and other cultures
39. researching
40. thinking how your relationships are changing

41. keeping your things visually neat

42. spending time in nature to discern changes in conditions and seasons
43. putting puzzles together
45. listening to music and keeping rhythm
46. reflecting what you learn from experiences
47. acting, role-playing or mimicking
48. resolving conflicts and difficult situations
49. organizing events
50. motivating or convincing others
51. visualizing past, present, or future actions or places
52. making speeches and other oral presentations
53. playing musical instruments
 54. selecting music for yourself
55. debating issues
56. teaching how to sing or play musical instruments
Directions: Circle the numbers below that you circled on the inventory. If any four of the seven actions in any intelligence apply to
you, you are probably strong in that intelligence, even if you have not developed that intelligence.

Actions: 1,10,14, 24, 27, 34, 47 Body/Kinesthetic intelligence

Actions: 9, 16, 23, 37, 38, 48, 50 Interpersonal intelligence

Actions: 8, 15, 25, 35, 40, 46, 54 Intrapersonal intelligence

Actions: 2, 17, 26, 36, 39, 49, 55 Logical/Mathematical intelligence

Actions: 6, 22, 32, 45, 53, 54, 56 Musical/Rhythmic intelligence

Actions: 4, 5, 13, 18, 21, 30, 42 Naturalist intelligence

Actions: 3, 11, 20, 29, 31, 33, 52 Verbal/Linguistic intelligence

Actions: 7, 12, 19, 28, 41, 43, 51 Visual/Spatial intelligence

(based on Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences recognizing the limits of context-free assessment)
Dr. Robert Pavlik, Institute for the Transformation of Learning, Marquette University, 2005