7 Areas of Intellectual Activity

Instructions

• The following PPT will explain to you the 7 Areas of Intellectual Activity.

• Create rainbow notes with 4 colors of paper.

• Label the top “7 Areas of Intellectual Activity”

• Each of the following steps will be labeled with one of the areas.

Instructions (cont.)

• Record on the space above that is covered by the flap the information from the PPT

• Also include in that space an activity that you could do with children that involves or encourages development of that area.

• This assignment is not complete without both the notes and the activity descriptions.

Memory

• Being able to remember information and experiences

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Reasoning

• Involves sorting information in order to make decisions, and solve problems

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Imagination

• Seeing and/or experiencing things that are not really there

• Children use imagination to connect what they see and hear with themselves

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Creativity

• This is when imagination is used to produce something

• The product an be tangible or intangible

Curiosity

• The desire to learn or know about something

• Includes exploring and asking why

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Perception

• Receiving and interpreting the information received through the senses

• Seeing a person and realizing that it is a man and he is wearing a blue shirt and humming “Old Macdonald”

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Attention

• The ability to ignore the majority of information the senses receive and concentrate on one item of interest.

• Attention span – the amount of time a child is able to block out extra information http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/09.18/photos/20-excursion4-450.jpg