Susan Wertz has been a science teacher at the middle and high school level for more than 25 years. During this time, she has taken students outside to study lawns, parking lots, retention pounds, woods and streams in her area. She serves as a community link coordinator, helping students make the transition between school and careers at the innovative New Century High School. Susan embraces multiple intelligences as a strategy for helping all students learn. She has been an active member of GREEN and the National Aquatic Marine Educators Association. She received a master of arts degree in science education from Central Washington University in 1975.
When it comes to understanding multiple intelligence theory and applying it to the classroom, the naturalist intelligence is an essential piece of the puzzle. This teacher resource will help define naturalist intelligence and explore its potential, identify naturalist traits in students with an observational checklist, meet national science standards while using MI techniques in every lesson, and strengthen students' use of the naturalist intelligence with more than 30 outdoor lessons. Each lesson includes a list of intelligences used, literature entry point, curriculum extensions, assessments that check for understanding, reflection prompts for journals, and tightly formatted directions for teachers.
