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6D: School Age Program: 6 – 12 years
Topic 9: How Am I Smart? How Do I Learn?
Topic 9: How Am I Smart? How Do I Learn?
Key Messages
1. Look at and read books together daily
2. Play in ways that are literacy and math rich
3. Explore your world and learn who you are (sense of self)
Program Outcomes
1. Help children develop tools and self-regulating strategies to do homework and have
successful school outcomes
2. Engage families in literacy/math activities that are emotionally centred and fun
3. Help children and families become ready for the increasing expectations of school
4. Break down barriers and alleviate isolation by working with others to build and strengthen
networks for children, their parents and the school community, developing self-esteem,
literacy, communication and problem solving skills
5. Model positive health practices and behaviours
6. Interpret the language of the school system, including literacy and math, into terms that
parents and children understand
7. Help children to advocate for themselves
8. Develop an awareness of Essential Skills, appreciating how they are used in home-based
activities and how they can transfer to the school situation
Rationale & Background Research
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Read Learning Styles Section 5 – Article 16
Read Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learning , Section 5 – Article 17
Read Multisensory Learning, Section 5 – Article 18
Read Multiple Intelligences, Section 5 – Article 19
Essential Skills
Activity
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Ways to Learn
4. I’m Good at
This Game!
5. My Favourite
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Activity Outline (Select one or more activities from the options given, beginning with active
game and finishing with reading together)
• Active Game (10 minutes): Select a game from Section 7: Supporting Materials and
Resources: Part B - Games - Active Games for Schoolage Children. Make sure to give ample
warning (2 minutes) of the game’s ending in order to enable children to be ready to go to
next activity.
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Options
1. House of Cards: active discovery – how do we learn? (15 minutes)
2. Using All Your Senses: several interactive, discovery, multisensory games (30 minutes)
3. Different Ways to Do It; Different Ways to Learn: helping children discover their own
learning styles and intelligences (30 minutes)
4. I’m Good at This Game! Affirmation of their personal learning strengths (20 minutes)
5. My Favourite Things (older children): further exploration of multiple intelligences (20
minutes)
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Read a Book to help children enjoy hearing different books read aloud (15 minutes)
Closing
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Clean Up & Rejoin Family
What We Did: Handout 26
Materials
1.House
Cards
of 2.Using All Your
Senses
r Deck of
cards for
each pair of
children
3.Different Ways 4.I’m Good at This
to Do It / Learn
Game!
Chart paper & r Pads of paper &
r Bag – variety of r
markers
pencils
objects: orange,
rattle, soft fabric, r I Do It My Way r Pictionary
Handout 23
r Topics for
etc. – touch)
r Collection of
Charades
noisemakers
r Baggies with
spices & other
foodstuffs (smell
& taste)
5.My Favourite
Things (older
children)
r How Are
You Smart
Handout 24
r Different
Ways to
Be Smart,
Handout 25
r Markers
Read a Book
r Book/books
for group
reading
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Topic 9: How Am I Smart? How Do I Learn?
1. House of Cards: (15 minutes)
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Divide children into pairs.
Give each pair a deck of cards.
Ask them to build a house using the cards. How big, high, can they build it?
Debrief: What happened? What would have made the task easier? (a picture, instructions,
somebody telling or showing you) How do you learn best?
2. Using All Your Senses: (30 minutes)
Ask what their 5 senses are: Sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.
Learn all they can about some objects in a bag (hidden) by feeling them.
Play a game of I Spy.
Have the children sit in a circle facing outwards. One at a time, a child goes into the circle
and picks a noisemaker from a collection and makes the noise: the others try to guess
what it is.
• Bring an assortment of spices and foodstuffs in small baggies. Invite children to smell and
taste. (be aware of any allergies or food restrictions.)
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3. Different Ways to Do It; Different Ways to Learn (20 minutes)
• Ask what it means to be smart. Capture their ideas with words or pictures on chart paper.
• Ask what they have learned to do – for instance, walk, feed themselves, print their names,
play soccer, etc. How did they learn? (by doing it; by being told how; by reading how or
watching how)
• Ask how different types of people are smart: teacher; artist; rock star; fireman; fisherman;
etc. How did they learn to do what they can do?
• Use I Do It My Way – Handout 22, to talk about the idea that we each have favourite ways
of doing things (multiple intelligence/different learning styles).
• Focus on key idea that it is important to know how you yourself learn best – value each
other as different – value self as unique.
4. I’m Good at this Game: (20 minutes)
• Play two or more of the following games that use different learning styles and skills:
o Telephone game – One person says a message into the ear of another; then the next
person needs to pass the message on to another person, and so on.
o Read It and Write It – Try the telephone game but using a written message as being
passed: (one child reads the message to the next – that one writes it and hands it to
the next, who reads it, etc.) (Older children)
o Simon Says – Children are told to take 1 step forward, 2 steps to the right, etc. but are
to only obey if the Facilitator first says “Simon Says”. (Listening skills and Thinking Skills
including Problem Solving and Decision Making).
o Pictionary – Children draw pictures based on reading a word (teeth, giraffe, frog) and
other have to guess. (Visual/kinesthetic)
o Charades – Children, alone or in small teams, act out a favourite story (3 Bears) or
game, or TV show (according to what they read on a card)
• Facilitators should use Essential Skills language: Reading; Writing; Oral Communication;
Problem Solving; Decision Making; Memory – how were these skills used in the games –
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how are they used in the classroom?
My Favourite Things: (older children who have completed Different Ways to Do It) (20 minutes)
• Describe each of the intelligences in simple language (use Multiple Intelligences from
Rationale & Background Research as resource for yourself!) Explain that each of us uses
many of these ways of thinking and learning about the world. As they grow older and
develop their skills, they will find that some of these ways are more comfortable/easier for
them in learning.( There is a good children’s book that explains the multiple intelligences
very well: You’re smarter than you think : a kid’s guide to multiple intelligences/Thomas
Armstrong ; edited by Jennifer Brannen 2003.)
• Give the children How Are You Smart? – Handout 24, and Different Ways to Be Smart
– Handout 25, and tell them to write their names beside what they think their top two
multiple intelligences are. Ask them to say why they chose these. Do they like doing these
kinds of things?
• In pairs, have them talk to each other about what their favouite things to do are. Do they
see a connection between what they said were their top intelligences and their favourite
activities.
• Ask them to imagine how a person who wanted to learn to play soccer or to bake cookies
might learn these skills, using different intelligences. (word smart, picture smart, people
smart, body smart).
• What is a way that each of these intelligences could be useful? Or enjoyable? (eg: a person
who is word smart likes reading and it helps him/her to find things out. A person who is
picture smart can use a map, and likes drawing. A person who is body smart can play many
sports well, and can fix things by watching someone else.)
Read a Book (15 minutes)
1. Ask what is left to do.
• Read a book.
2. This can be either a chapter book (where the Facilitator reads one chapter each week) or a
book that can be read and finished each class.
• Talk about the book, including the cover, asking questions about what the children
think the book will be about.
• Talk about the author/illustrator. Share experiences of other books by this
author/illustrator.
3. Ask if we did what we said we would do each week. (check poster.) What is left. Tidy up.
Do it together.
Suggested titles include:
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How You Got So Smart, David Milgrim
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Caterpillar Dreams, Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross
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Me I am! Jack Prelutsky (really a poem)
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Topic 9: How Am I Smart? How Do I Learn? - Handout 23
I Do It My Way
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How Are You Smart?
Word Smart
Can use spoken or written
words well
Picture Smart
Can see concepts,
read maps
People Smart
Can relate well to others
Self Smart
Knows how to work well
on own
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Math Smart
Can use numbers easily
Nature Smart
Can understand things
found in nature
Body Smart
Can play sports, dance,
and mime
Music Smart
Can hear and play music
well, including instruments
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Topic 9: How Am I Smart? How Do I Learn? - Handout 25
Different Ways to be Smart
Word Smart
Music Smart
Picture Smart
Body Smart
Math Smart
Nature Smart
Self Smart
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Other People Smart
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What We Did
Active Game
What We
Talked About
What We
Did
What
We Read
Together
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