1.

Christopher Columbus and Multiple Intelligences

Intrapersonal intelligence
Imagine you are Columbus or the tano boss (tanos were native americans of
Bahamas). Think on how you would have behaved during the first months of contact
between both cultures.


Interpersonal intelligence
Debate in your group comparing Columbus arrival to America with the arrival of
immigrants to our country. Write two facts on which everybody agrees, and two facts
on which there is disagreement.


Linguistic - verbal intelligence
Imagine you are Columbus in his first trip to America. Write his personal diary from 3
of August to 12 of October 1492.


Logical - mathematical intelligence
Solve the following problems:
If Columbus departed from the Canary islands on August 12 1492 and got to
Bahamas on October 12, how log did he stay on the sea?
Columbus left with 90 men: 7 died during the journey to America, 15 stayed in
Bahamas, 9 native americans came with him, 19 men were lost in a storm, and
12 more men stayed in the Aores islands, how many people got to Portugal
with him?


Visual spatial intelligence
Draw on a map the four trips of Columbus to America. After that, each member of the
team has to draw with different colours the trips he or she has done in all his or her
life.


Musical intelligence
You are a group of tanos, you want to welcom Columbus and his men to your island.
Invent a song and play it with drums and other instruments.


Bodily kinesthetic intelligence
Perform the arrival of Columbus to America. Characters: Columbus, native americans,
Pinzn brothers, sailors.


Narutalist intelligence
Classify the different natural products according to its origin America or other. With
all the american products, create your own recipe.

2. Marie Curie and Multiple Intelligences

Visual-spatial intelligence
Marie Curie is remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge
contribution to the fight against cancer. As she said, radium will be used against
cancer. Marie Curie's life as a scientist was one which flourished because of her
ability to observe, deduce and predict. She is also arguably the first woman to make
such a significant contribution to science. And to remember her great job a society was
born: the story begins in 1948, the same year the National Health Service in England
was launched. Not long before the Hampstead-based Marie Curie Hospital was
transfered to the NHS, a group of committee members from the hospital decided to
preserve the name of Marie Curie in the charitable medical field. This was the
beginning of the Marie Curie Memorial Foundation a charity dedicated to alleviating
suffering from cancer today today known as Marie Curie Cancer Care. This
foundation has a daffodil as emblem and they have asked people from Fowey to
decorate their mural with pictures of daffodils.
Lets help them, paint, draw or design on a computer a picture of daffodils!
Logical-mathematical intelligence

Thanks to the discover of Marie Curie scientists can now create radioactive forms of
common elements, called isotopes. Each isotope has a fixed rate of decay which can
be characterized by its half-life, or the length of time that it takes half of the radioactive
atoms in a sample to decay. Because each isotope decays at a unique and predictable
rate, different isotopes can be used for a variety of purposes. For example, isotopes
play an important role in modern medicine. They can be ingested and traced in their
path through the body, revealing biochemical and metabolic processes with precision.
These isotropic "tracers" are currently used for practical diagnosis of disease as well
as in research.
The dating of radioactive carbon has helped to define the history of life on this planet.
Any living organism takes in both radioactive and non-radioactive carbon, either
through the process of photosynthesis or by eating plants or eating animals that have
eaten plants. When the animal dies, however, uptake of carbon stops. As a result,
radioactive carbon atoms are not replaced as they decay, and the amount of this
material decreases over time. The rate of decrease is predictable and can be
described with accuracy, vastly increasing our ability to date the biological events of
our planet.
Do the following exercises based on dating and half life of elements:

1. During an expedition to Egypt, a group of Egyptologists found wheat when they
opened a tomb. They try to date this tomb using the technique of carbon-
14.When the wheat is alive there are 2,3 10 -3 mg of C-14 per kg of wheat,(that
is to say, when it is a plant) , and in this tomb the amount of C-14 is 1,15 10-
3mg per kg of wheat .Calculate the age of this tomb.
Data: C-14 half live = 5370 years

2. Calculate how long it will take a piece of one kg of radium to be reduced to 250
grams.
Data: Radium half live = 1,210
3
years

3. An archaeological excavation finds an axe wood and measure its amount of C-
14 in order to date it. The result is that the axe wood has part of C-14 of that
of living trees. Calculate the age of the axe.
Data: C-14 half live = 5370 years


Interpersonal intelligence

Argue in your group about the uses of radium, the element discovered by Marie Curie.
This discovery opened a new world: radioactivity, used for both, benefit and harm
humanity. Write down the arguments for and against the use of radioactivity.


Intrapersonal intelligence

Shortly after discovering radium, Pierre and Marie Curie received a letter from USA,
requesting information on how to isolate that element to use it in this country. They
had two options: describe the results and had no money benefit or to patent the
technique and win a lot of money. Think about what would have been your decision.


Linguistic-verbal intelligence
The year 2011 has been proclaimed the International Year of Chemistry by the 63rd
General Assembly of the United Nations (UN). In 2011, the centennial of the awarding
of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Marie Curie for her work on radioactivity will also be
celebrated.
According to Jung-il Jin, the president of the International Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry (IUPAC), the International Year of Chemistry will bring global recognition to
the chemical science, upon which our life and our future are based.
Imagine you are Marie Curie and have to read a speech giving thanks to have won the
Nobel Prize. Write down the letter you will read during the Nobel Prize ceremony.

Musical intelligence

Here you are the lyrics of the song: The ballad of Marie Curie performed by Army of
Lovers:

A corpse in the park
Her husband her tutor
Glow in the dark
The fame of the future
The story was told
She's gone where the gods live
Carbon to gold
She's radioactive
Radioactive

The year 1903 in late September
A pavilion in Peczynska province
Let's prepare a voyage for December
We read the chemistry like poems

Sound of the atoms cracking
Signs in the radium tracking
Our goddess Marie Curie
Marie Curie

A corpse in the park
Her husband her tutor
Glow in the dark
The fame of the future
The story was told
She's gone where the gods live
Carbon to gold
She's radioactive
Radioactive

In June the 12th 1911
My children radium and polonium
I have dinner with Strindberg in blue heaven
Pierre's gone to x-ray pandemonium

From the laboratory of Eden
To the monarchy of Sweden
The laureate Marie Curie
Marie Curie

A corpse in the park
Her husband her tutor
Glow in the dark
The fame of the future
The story was told
She's gone where the gods live
Carbon to gold
She's radioactive
Radioactive

Sound of the atoms cracking
Signs in the radium tracking
Our goddess Marie Curie
Marie Curie

A corpse in the park
Her husband her tutor
Glow in the dark
The fame of the future
The story was told
She's gone where the gods live
Carbon to gold
She's radioactive
Radioactive

A corpse in the park
Her husband her tutor
Glow in the dark
The fame of the future
The story was told
She's gone where the gods live
Carbon to gold
She's radioactive
Radioactive

Now is your turn, you must add music to the song and record an mp3 file.


Bodily-kinaesthetic intelligence

In 1902,forty-five months after the Curies announced the probably existence of
radium, Marie achieved the victory she had been fighting on, finally, prepared a pure
radio decigram, and determined the atomic weight of the new element. Chemical
society had to surrender to the evidence of the facts. Since that time the radio was
officially recognized.

Perform the moment Marie Curie isolate the radium in their lab.


Naturalist intelligence

Marie Curie was extremely compassionate and cannot bear to see any fellow creature
- human or animal - suffer.

Search for examples that corroborate this altruistic Marie Curie attitude towards nature
and living creatures.