Kinesthetic learners logoKinesthetic learners "like to have opportunities to move around, trace and outline, act out concepts and stories, make models or do experiments, write or draw while listening,walk while talking, imagine themselves in the situation, examine and manipulate material" (Government of Alberta, Education, 2010).

 

Interactive Whiteboards

Panaboard - RMeasiLearn 
Promethean Board - Promethean Planet
SmartBoard - Smart Exchange

Scholastic Interactive Lessons - for any whiteboard
Gynzy.com - more resources for any whiteboard
Find it on Pinterest - and even more resources for various whiteboards

Kinesthetic Links

  • Classroom Assessment - Theory into Practice

http://classroom-assessment-theory-into-practice.wikispaces.com/Assessment+for+Kinesthetic+Learners

Activity Suggestions for the Tactile-Kinesthetic Learner

The tactile-kinesthetic learner remembers best the things they experience.
Kinesthetic learning involves use of the whole body rather than just hands-on.

  • Air Writing
  • Artistic creations
  • Audio Books
  • Blocks and cubes
  • Body games
  • Calculators
  • Charades
  • Collections
  • Coloring books
  • Computers
  • Cut-and-paste tasks
  • Dance
  • Demonstrations
  • Dioramas
  • Displays
  • Drama, or Skits
  • Drawing materials
  • Dress as characters
  • Experiments
  • Felt boards
  • Field trips
  • Games
  • Globes and maps
  • Museum Visits
  • Make a video show
  • Mobiles
  • Mobiles
  • Modeling
  • Modeling clay
  • Musical performances
  • Nature Hikes
  • Needlework
  • Number lines
  • Pantomimes
  • Plays
  • Posters
  • Products
  • Projects
  • Puppet shows
  • Puzzles
  • Rhythmic Clap and Tap
  • Rocking and reading
  • Role playing
  • Role-play/interviews
  • Sandpaper/felt letters
  • Scavenger Hunts
  • Science Experiments
  • Science labs
  • Scrapbooks
  • Sculptures/Collages
  • Surveys
  • Task cards
  • WhiteboardS
  • Geoboards with rubber bands
  • Jump Rope Recitation - Memorization while jumping
  • Play catch while reviewing facts
  • Sandpaper and carpet to trace letters, shapes, and numbers
  • Walking and reading
  • Walking Review
  • "Walk and Talk" tapes for memorization while listening or reciting
  • Wooden numbers and letters