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Bringing the Body to Life

 

Using Multiple Intelligence Theory in the Classroom

By Fiona Holland, MA, PGCE for www.sportex.net

October 14, 2007

Research indicates that some students
thrive academically in situations where
theory is applied in highly practical and
relevant ways. In comparison to
traditional lecture-based teaching
methods, problem-based scenarios have
been utilized successfully with sports
students and show increased levels of
engagement, enjoyment and application
of knowledge (3). Studies incorporating
experiential activities (such as building
musculature in clay on scaled-down
skeletons) as opposed to traditional
anatomy teaching strategies also
demonstrate promising results (4,5).

 

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Program molds minds with clay

Loveland firm's teaching tool is a hit - no bones about it

By Pam Mellskog for the Daily Times-Call & Reporter-Herald

March 26, 2007

BOULDER- At 56, Patti Smith's Play-Doh days likely ended decades ago. But she got her fingers tacky again by shaping terra cotta-colored modeling clay into muscle replications one morning in early March at the Anatomy in Clay Center in Boulder.

The Fort-Collins-based health education consultant joined a half-dozen science and art teachers from Boulder to Brighton to try the center's hands-on approach to learning human anatomy

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