BODILY-KINESTHETIC INTELLIGENCE
Margarida Dolan
"Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence is the capacity to use your whole body or parts of your body--your hand, your fingers, your arms--to solve a problem, make something, or put on some kind of a production. The most evident examples are people in athletics or the performing arts, particularly dance or acting." --Howard Gardner (Gardner & Checkley, 1997, p. 12)
Key Abilities
Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence
...allows an individual to use one's body to create products or solve problems.
...refers to the ability to control all or isolated parts of one's body.
Sub-abilities
athletic movement
creative movement (including responsiveness to music)
body control and fine motor abilities
generating movement ideas (such as in choreography)
Endstates or Domains that require significant bodily-kinesthetic intelligence
dancer athlete actor
choreographer artisan mime
sculptor surgeon sign language interpreter
Strategies or Products that emphasize bodily-kinesthetic intelligence
dance performance mime sculpture, painting, other arts product
play textiles charades
sports/games jewelry performance art
Everyday uses of bodily-kinesthetic intelligence
playing on the company’s softball team
getting in and standing in a crowded subway car
brushing your teeth
fixing something
Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence is NOT
...necessarily demonstrated by an "antsy" or physically active child.
...unstructured release of "energy" through physical activity.