As a parent, it's your responsibility to develop his interest in nature and the environment. Here are some ways you can go about it. Activities to encourage your nature smart child Encourage free outdoor play : It's essential for a child to have some unstructured playtime.
This enhances her creative skills as she indulges in imaginative play. But, when you take your nature smart kid outdoors for free play, she can improvise and use different elements of nature to create stories on her own. This will not only help her bond more with nature but also sharpen her observational skills. Indulge him in sensory experiences: Children with naturalistic intelligence have a keen sense of smell, sight, hearing and touch.
You can enhance his outdoor experience by encouraging him to draw in the sand and listen to the various natural sounds with his eyes closed. You can even conduct a pop quiz and ask him questions based on his experiences, like "What sounds can you hear and who do they belong to?
You can encourage your child by taking her for short nature walks in the park or arrange for hikes and picnics during the weekends. A nature smart kid thrives in nature and you should give her plenty of opportunities to help her develop her skills. Ask him to maintain a journal: Though your child might like to spend all his time outdoors, it's not feasible to do so. To keep his interest in nature and the environment alive, ask him to maintain a nature journal.
He can create a scrapbook based on his observations or collect samples from his time spent outdoors and then come back and study them at home. Naturalistic intelligence allows us to recognise differences between species and understand how they relate to each other.
I can assure you that mine are even greater". This phrase, belonging to a letter sent to a girl, was written by someone representing the peak of human intelligence: Albert Einstein. And the truth is that, despite being both a physicist and also a brilliant mathematician, Einstein would never have been able to develop his theory of relativity if it were not for the work of mathematicians more gifted than him, such as Bernhard Riemann.
In the same way as people with Savant syndrome, who are able to memorise entire books word for word but unable to relate to other people, Einstein's relationship with mathematics is a good example that intelligence is not a single set that groups together different specific capabilities, but a network of interconnected autonomous sets.
In this work, which had an impact on improving the education system and earned him the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences in , Gardner defined seven types of intelligence: linguistic, musical, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinaesthetic, interpersonal and intrapersonal. In our daily lives, according to Gardner, we need to make use of different types of intelligence. The more intelligences a person develops in depth, the greater their chances of prospering.
This is why, 12 years after the publication of his master work, Gardner added an eighth type of intelligence: naturalistic intelligence. Types of human intelligence. According to Gardner, naturalistic intelligence is the ability to identify, classify and manipulate elements of the environment, objects, animals or plants. Thanks to this type of intelligence, we are able to recognise the differences between species, groups of people or objects and understand how they relate to each other.
It is considered that naturalistic intelligence developed in the times of the first human beings, when survival depended on recognising useful and dangerous species, on observing the climate, on reading the land and on expanding the range of resources available for food.
The point here isn't that schools should only teach to the naturalist intelligence. Indeed, we should be teaching to all eight or nine intelligences. But picture a school and they exist already where the natural environment becomes the classroom and Nature becomes one of the teachers.
Even students who don't exhibit "nature smarts" will become more attuned and connected to the world around them. And as many wise people have said, we can't save something we don't love, and we can't love something we don't know. Don't we owe it to our students to help them develop their naturalist intelligence? And more recently, E.
Wilson see photo on left , arguably the world's greatest naturalist, and the father of socio-biology, wrote a book, "Ants" -- one of two books for which he won the Pulitzer Prize -- that explained how these insects create complex social structures, organizations, and hierarchies.
Building naturalistic intelligence among children is essential for developing a deeper understanding of, and healthy respect for the living world. It also gives children the chance to be inquisitive, to explore the world around them and to tune into the cycles of nature.
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