What Would That Lesson Look Like?:
Teaching to Bodily/Kinesthetic Intelligence

Reading

Act out scenes from a story

Play charades to describe characters from a story

Make a human sculpture representative of the theme of the story

Read aloud while moving around the room; all must move and all must listen to the one reader; the reader should change after an agreed upon number of lines.

Writing/Grammar

Assign different parts of the room for writing different parts of an essay (introduction, conclusion, body)

Have a sign language spelling bee

Learn sign language for parts of speech; have students make the appropriate sign as you say words; work to do this as quickly as possible

Make up a "How to Write an Essay" or "Parts of Speech" or "Comma Rules" folk dance, matching words to movements

Mathematics

Make up a playground game that uses math operations

Make human sculptures of geometric shapes

Act out equations and their solutions

Act out word problems and their solutions

Make a "to-scale" model of something in the classroom