Multiple Intelligences Brainstormer – List of activities you can choose from for family tree project
Verbal/Linguistic
•Word jumbles of different family
members and their match
•Interpret another famous family
•Compare two families (Venn
Diagram?)
•poem
Logical/Mathematical
•Dividing a pizza among your family
members- how many pieces would
each eat?
•Making a graph of different number of
family members of kids in the grade
Bodily/Kinesthetic
Interpersonal
•Teaching the class- have kids draw your tree
as you dictate it to them
•Family book with descriptions and
pictures/illustrations
•Poster visually representing your family tree
(DO NOT USE A TREE- choose another
image that relates to your family better… a
ski mountain, a pool, a foosball table??)
Musical/Rhythmic
•Make a song or beats to remember
and teach the class members of your
family with their titles
•Playing an instrument while a
slideshow plays of your family with
description
•Read out loud a poem about family
•Rap or make a melody or choose a
famous song to describe your family
•Act out a skit where you are ALL
members of your immediate family
•Make up a dance that represents your
family culture and explain why
•Make up gestures for each Spanish
name for family vocabulary
•Interview for wanting to become part
of your family. Do you have what it
takes?
•Team games or activities your family
does that the class can do together,
too!
•Make up fake telephone conversation
that happens between two family
members
Visual/Spatial
Intrapersonal
•Write some diary entries about daily life
in your crazy family.
•Find an article about family life in a
Spanish speaking country. Do they have
bigger or smaller families? Respond
•Acrostic poetry, illustrations with each
line
Naturalist
•Focus on outdoor vacations your
family does and what you do on them
•If each family member was a part of
nature what would they be? Describe.
•Including pets on your project