Teaching About Kashrut Through Engaging the Multiple Intelligences : Teaching About Kashrut Through Engaging the Multiple Intelligences Week 5
Assignment #4
Patti Kroll and Dan Aronson
Verbal/Linguistic : Verbal/Linguistic Read Torah texts
Read portions from Fins and Scales: A Kosher Tale by Deborah Uchill Miller and Karen Ostrove
Write essays about how they make decisions about what they eat.
Mathematical/Logical : Mathematical/Logical Address questions from back of Fins and Scales e.g. what foods can you eat together, what are rules for keeping Kosher on Pesach, why do people keep kosher.
How would you go about starting to keep kosher in your home?
Visual/Spatial : Visual/Spatial Posterboards of kosher and non-kosher animals. Students arrange them in two categories.
Go through cabinets and refrigerators at home and look for kosher symbols and keep a list.
Go through magazines and cut out food items and then categorize into meat, dairy, parve.
Body/Kinesthetic : Body/Kinesthetic Arrange class into small groups. Each group sits in a circle, in the middle of which are photos of foods. Have a competition to see which group can more quickly separate kosher from non-kosher (or meat, dairy, parve).
Using food items that are collected for food drive, sort into kosher and non-kosher. Give kosher items to kosher food pantry.
Musical/Rhythmical : Musical/Rhythmical Find some songs about Kashrut, ala Debbie Friedman, Shlock Rock or Mama Doni, and teach them to class.
Have kids create their own songs about Kashrut and use the songs to teach another class in the school about Kashrut.
Interpersonal : Interpersonal Interview several people who keep Kosher and look for similarities in practices and differences.
Invite the rabbi to come for an “ask the rabbi session” on the theme of Kashrut.
Interview parents and grandparents about the dietary practices they had growing up.
Intrapersonal : Think about how you feel about keeping Kosher (or not).
Keep Kosher for a week and maintain a journal listing foods eaten and talking about your thoughts and experiences during the week. Intrapersonal