Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

For my Review of Lit. I need to interview a scientist about my science fair topic. My topic is “Is it easier to memorize words through Auditory with Kinesthetic learning, Visual with Kinesthetic learning, or a combination of both, Auditory and Visual, with kinesthetic learning?�
I the questions I would to be anwered are:

Which learning method do you think is easier to memorize words through, Auditory with Kinesthetic learning, Visual with Kinesthetic learning, or a combination of both, Auditory and Visual, with kinesthetic learning? and why?

Do you believe that age and sex is a factor to memorize words? why?
Do you think there are other factors?

The way I’m presenting auditory learning is by reading words off cue cards, without my test subjects seeing them. I'm presenting visual learning by displaying cue cards to the students without saying the words. I will give each student a toy (the same toy) to play with when demonstrating kinesthetic learning. I will recite and display words when doing both visual and auditory learning combined.
Do you think that the way I am carrying out each learning skill should be done in a different matter?

I appreciate your time into helping me.
Sincerely,
Taylor

Thank You

Try reading this article about "High School Male and Female Learning-Style Similarities and Differences in Diverse Nations" it seems like it would relate to your questions about factors that influence memorization/learning styles.
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gg ... 78&er=deny

It seems to me that the way you are testing visual and auditory learning will work out, but I'm not so sure about the procedure for testing kinesthetic learning. I don't think that playing with a toy while memorizing words can really translate to how well a person can "learn by doing."

I know that you are testing the ability to memorize words but....let's say that you were teaching the people you experiment on about the structure of cells-
You could test AUDITORY learning by announcing out loud and describing each cell part, VISUAL learning by showing the test subjects a picture of the cell's structure (labeled with the parts), and KINESTHETIC by having the test subjects put together a prefabricated cell model (with the parts labeled. Then you would have to evaluate the results by giving all test subjects the same test of the material, to see who scores the best, and which learning method worked the best to contribute to that.)
Hopefully you will understand what I'm getting at.

Also, you probably want to make sure that the words that are taught in each diferent way are the same. That way, that is kept constant and you do not have the issue of people simply being able to learn certain words better than other ones, or some words being easier than others. That's not what you're testing. You're testing the WAYS people learn.

I agree with Nicolerumore. If you could get those little letter-shaped refridgerator magnets or even cut out letters yourself, you could ask them to spell out the letters with the toys. Alternatively, you could ask them to put your cue cards in some sort of order. With kinesthetic learning, you want the movement to be related to the learning somehow, not just adding random movement to something else.

Oooh. Another idea would be to choose words they could act out--you could ask them to act out each of the words you're trying to have them memorize.