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Touch
it. Learn it.
Are you a person who needs to move and physically interact in order
to understand something? Do your hands automatically reach out and
touch things? You may be what experts call a kinesthetic learner.
People who are kinesthetic learners gather information by doing.
Thye need to be active participants in the learning process, physically
involved and engaged. They are the touchy-feely folks who communicate
by hugging or sitting close. If you are a kinesthetic learner you
need to keep active to stay involved. Instead of reading about architecture,
you need to build. Instead of listening to a piano piece, you must
put your hands on a keyboard. Itís great. Just reach out
and feel the whole world around you.
Traveling
Smart
Here are some car games that not only will keep kids entertained
but also help with basic learning skills. Even more important, they
will connect people in the car (not like hand-held electronic games!)
Color
My World. Choose a color and look out the window. Try to find
five objects that have the color. Now switch colors. Go for the
hard ones – chartreuse, magenta, and teal. Look at the different
shades of green and make up names for them.
Letters
and Numbers Hunt. Look for signs and billboards that have letters
of the alphabet or numbers. Start with A and 1. How far down the
alphabet can you get? What’s the highest number?
Song
Game. Pick a word and find out how many songs you know with
the word in it. "Love" can keep you going for hours, but
how about "dog?"
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Develop
Problem-Solving Skills
Here
are seven steps to problem-solving:
- Listen
to each side in turn.
- Have
each side state the other’s point of view.
- State
the areas of agreement and disagreement
- State
the problem.
- Brainstorm
for solutions
- Evaluate
the solutions in terms of consequences and producing a win-win
solution.
- Selection
one solution.
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