Kinesthetic learners learn best when physical movement and hands-on activities are incorporated into learning. They struggle to focus without movement and benefit from activities like note-taking with drawings, doodling, role plays, treasure hunts, and rhythmic clapping games. Effective teaching strategies involve allowing kinesthetic learners to stand and move during lessons, incorporating paired work, experiments, and hands-on projects into instruction.

1. Are You a Kinesthetic Learner?

2. 1. Kinesthetic learners
need to move. Always
struggle with focus
unless their hands are
working on the learning.
2. Kinesthetic learners
learn best when motions
are involved.
3. Typically use color high
lighters and take notes by
drawing pictures,
diagrams, or doodling
4. Are often gifted
performers (athletes,
dancers etc.)

3. Teaching Strategies
• During a lesson, allow the kinesthetic learners to stand, bounce their legs or doodle.
• Offer various methods of instruction – paired readings, group work, experiments, projects, plays,
etc.
• Have your kinesthetic learners perform tasks during the lecture like filling out a worksheet on the
material or taking notes.
• Allow those students to perform movement tasks before and after lectures like passing back
assignments, handing out quizzes, writing on the chalkboard, or even rearranging desks.
• If you feel the kinesthetic learners slipping away from you in class, stop everyone and have the whole
class do something energetic like energy booster activity, stretching, switching desks (left side of
the room switch spots with the right side of the room).
• Keep your explanation short and sweet. Be mindful of all your different learners when planning.

4. Activites
• Role play
• Treasure hunt
• Catch ball drills
• Have learner set up a “Shop” to practice math with
money by being the cashier.
• Rhythmic Clap and Tap for spelling & memorization (jazz
chant)
• Brain balancing activities