BODILY-KINESTHETIC INTELLIGENCE
HISTORY
- Perform and/or create dramas from a period of history
- Re-enact great scenes or moments from history for today
- Hold an historical period costume & food day
- Play “Great Moments from the Past” charades
- Learn dances from previous periods of history (e.g. the minuet, waltz, etc.)
MATHEMATICS
- Use different parts of the body to as a “rule” to measure different things
- Add & subtract members to & from a group to learn about fractions
- Invent something that requires applying math concepts
- Create & act out a play in which the characters are geometric shapes or other math concepts
- Make up a playground game that uses math concepts/operations
LANGUAGE ARTS
- Play “The Parts of a Sentence” charades
- “Embody” (act out) the meaning of vocabulary words
- Act out a story or play that you are studying
- Learn the alphabet and/or spelling through body movements & physical gestures
- Make up a “Parts of Speech” folk dance
SCIENCE
- Role play the parts & dynamics of the life of a cell
- Create the rotation of planets with the class as the solar system
- Become & act out the different states of matter
- Conduct a series of “hands-on” scientific/health experiments
- Study & try various “biofeedback” techniques/methods
GEOGRAPHY
- Learn folk dances/dramas of a culture being studied
- Create gestures to represent the legend of a map
- Play “physical movement games” from another culture
- Simulate “going shopping” using currency from another country
- Study “body language” from different cultural situations
EXTRA CURRICULAR
- Make up gestures, postures, or facial expressions to accompany a musical score
- Design a “living painting” of a classical work
- Practice doing impromptu dramatic mime activities
- Create & perform a drama on how a computer operates
- Draw pictures of how to perform certain physical feats
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DACAL is a school which caters to children with developmental delays, learning difficulties and special needs.
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DACAL - Darul Ansar Centre for Applied Learning
Anjuman-e-Himayath-e-Islam
#16, B.N. Reddy Road, Chennai 600 017.
Phone: 044 4901 4553, 98842 70480
Mon-Fri: 8:30 am – 3:30 pm