Spatial Celebrity Profiles
Spatial Celebrity Profiles
Here's a list of artists and explorers who used their spatial skills to find their way. Each of them also happened to live with a disability. Their unique combination of intelligences -- strengths as well as weaknesses -- made them such successful people.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist. Renaissance Man. Did you know he had a learning disability?
Admiral Peary
American arctic explorer and naval officer. He had a communicative disorder.
Vincent Van Gogh
Post-impressionist painter, originally from the Netherlands. Van Gogh had epilepsy and struggled with mental illness, including depression and dementia.
Marc Chagall
Russian Cubist and Expressionist painter. He had a communicative disorder.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
French painter and lithographer. Lautrec fell and broke both legs when he was a child and his growth was permanently stunted.
What do your kids think?
Ask your kids if they can think of any famous people who have high spatial intelligence. Start them off with a few familiar names:
Brought to you by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Source: Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom by Thomas Armstrong (ASCD 1994)
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Name-Spelling GameUsing letter flash cards, teach your preschool child to spell his name.Materials Index cards Pen or markerDirections Print each letter in your childs name on an index card. Lay them out to spell your childs name. Mix them up and hav
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Children who are introduced to reading at an early age have been shown to excel earlier in school when compared to children who were less exposed to books, according to the National Institute for Literacy. By choosing a topic your child is interested
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Texture CrawlTime 5 to 10 minutes Materials Safe articles with interesting textures, such as a rubber floor mat, carpet samples, silk scarves, chenille rug, bubble wrap, a piece of corduroy, velvet, satin, sticky side of a piece of contact paper, etc
