An Application of the Essential Academic Learning Requirements and Gardner's Multiple Intelligences on Middle School Social Studies

Author

Pamela B. De Persio, Central Washington University

Document Type

Graduate Project

Date of Degree Completion

Summer 1999

Degree Name

Master of Education (MEd)

Department

Education

Committee Chair

Steven A. Schmitz

Second Committee Member

James L. DePaepe

Third Committee Member

Osman Alawiye

Abstract

The purpose of this application is to use a combination of the Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements and Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences, to create learning plans for middle school social studies, history (U.S. Civil War) and geography. The Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements were first adopted in 1993 as goals to raise the standards and achievements of elementary and secondary students. Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences is an alternate way to describe the talents or gifts we each possess. Multiple intelligences can be considered as intelligences in diverse disciplines which allow human beings the ability to gather new knowledge.

Recommended Citation

De Persio, Pamela B., "An Application of the Essential Academic Learning Requirements and Gardner's Multiple Intelligences on Middle School Social Studies" (1999). All Graduate Projects. 601.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/graduate_projects/601