Defined with characteristics:

• Ability to recognize and classify living things like plants, animals
• Sensitive to other features of the natural world (clouds, rock configurations)
• Recognize patterns in nature
• Prefer to be outdoors
• Most recently "discovered" intelligence
• May extend into consumer realm—discriminate among cars, sneakers, types of makeup…

Potential careers:

Botanist, chef, taxonomist, scientist,

Tools for Teachers:

(See also: Multiple Intelligence Menus & Using Intelligence Menus)

Tips for Parents:

• Take children on nature walks to observe and journal.
• Encourage "backyard experiments" with bugs, plants…
• Star watch from the backyard or local observatory.
• Share, as a family, observations from notebooks.

Collect leaves, flowers, rocks… and try to identify using a field guide.