Interpersonal learners thrive on activities dealing with other people, so interact with these students on a person-to-person level as often as possible. Encourage interpersonal intelligence by having your students teach someone else the material, conduct interviews to gather information and brainstorm ideas in small groups. Give plenty of feedback and ask for feedback in return. Interpersonal activities involve collaborative actions and encourage students to empathize with each other and their teacher.
Have your students role-play as a famous person from history to develop their understanding of that individual. Role-playing involves dressing up as a chosen historical figure and having conversations from the perspective of that character. Assign projects concerning the relationship between the geography of a region and the customs or values of the people living there. Discuss, in small groups, common societal beliefs and customs of other time periods.
Guide students in peer editing papers, short stories and other written assignments. Allow students to partner up with a classmate and perform language drill exercises involving spelling, vocabulary or grammar. Read a story passage or poem aloud and hold a class discussion to analyze the message contained within the reading. Form small groups and have students write a joint story, where each student in the group writes a paragraph or two of the same story.
Partner up your students and instruct them to take turns sketching one another. Read plays aloud in class, assigning a different student to read each role. Instruct students to present a drawing, dance or song that represents them to the rest of the class. Divide students into small groups and allow the groups to create a clay sculpture or other craft project together.
Encourage students to solve complex story problems with a partner or small group. Alternatively, instruct each student to create a story problem for another peer to solve. Have students conduct a survey in which they must interview others, asking questions with set answers. Then, using the survey results, calculate the result percentages as a class.
Create lab teams for science experiments and exercises. Ask for hands-on "help from the audience" during science demonstrations. Instruct students to gather in small groups to research a topic and devise an experiment for the rest of the class using their research. Create a science club for students who share an interest in a particular scientific field, from Earth science to chemistry.