Learning Style Talents-
Natural Learning Abilities

FREE Lesson Plans and Activities!

Use your child's natural learning abilities to enhance learning.

Allow your doodler to draw a scene from her silent reading assignment. Have your math whiz find the math patterns in a multiplication table. Use animal science topics when teaching Biology to your animal lover.

Support your child's talents and they will have more confidence when it comes time to tackle those subjects they find more challenging.

Say you are learning about World History this year using the Unit Study method. Read through the following talents and think about how each natural learning ability can be utilized…

Body coordination - Skilled in sports, bicycling, hiking, typing, using tools, and sewing.

Enhancing daily life - Enjoys cooking, decorating, organizing living spaces, and enhancing everyday places and routines.

Humor - Loves to have fun! Skilled at making even the dullest activity humerous.

Interactive animals - Skilled in interacting with animals. Easily learns anything related to animals.

Interactive nature - Enjoys being outside investigating nature. Can easily learn anything related to nature.

Interactive others - Enjoys social activities, working in groups, interacting with others. Skilled at understanding people.

Interactive self - Enjoys being alone and working independently. Easily works from a list of assignments and completes tasks in own way.

Math-logic reasoning - Easily sees math patterns, understands concepts, skilled at logic problems and games.

Mechanical reasoning - Loves to figure out how things work through inventing, building, and taking things apart.

Music - Skilled in playing instruments, singing, memorizing songs, enjoys listening to music.

Spatial - Skilled in drawing, copying pictures/designs, and knowing where things are. Enjoys jigsaw puzzles, mazes, and doodling.

Word-language reasoning - Skilled in spelling, reading, talking, memorizing facts, and learning vocabulary. Enjoys discussions and different forms of writing.

Here are some possibilities…

• Create a model of a roman city
• Cook period/cultural meals
• Draw a cartoon strip depicting the French Revolution
• Research the types and uses of animals in nomadic cultures
• Compare and contrast the physical environment of ancient and modern China
• Work with a partner to demonstrate a day in the life of an Egyptian
• Write a book report on a favorite novel
• Research and demonstrate the type of mathematics used during that period
• Demonstrate how Roman aqueducts worked
• Enjoy listening to period music - create period instruments
• Create a diagram of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan
• Learn everyday words from a foreign language

3 Steps To Homeschooling Success!

1. Take the online Learning Styles Profile to find out your child's learning style.
2. Customize your homeschool curriculum package.
3. Choose a homeschooling method that works best with your child's learning style. Then plug your curriculum resources into the course of study for your homeschooling method.