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Opportunities for Intellectual and Emotional Connections

**Intellectual \-- Which connection opportunities seem to provoke or
inspire:**

awareness, comprehension, discernment, discovery, enlightenment,
insight, reasoning, mindfulness, perceptiveness, perspicacity,
recognition, revelation, understanding of concepts, cause and effect, or
relationships; unearthing, unfolding, wisdom...

*I could while away the hours conferrin' with the flowers, consultin'
with the rain*

*And my head I'd be busy scratchin' while my thoughts were busy
hatchin'*

*If I only had a brain.*

*I'd unravel every riddle for any individle in trouble or in pain*

*With the thoughts I'd be thinkin' I could be another Lincoln*

*If I only had a brain.*

*Oh, I could tell you why the ocean's near the shore*

*I could think of things I never thunk before, and then I\'d sit and
think some more.*

*I would not be just a nuffin', my head all full of stuffin', my heart
all full of pain*

*And perhaps I'd deserve you and be even worthy of you if I only had a
brain.\**

**Emotional \-- Which connection opportunities seem to provoke, evoke or
inspire:**

admiration, aggravation, amazement, anger, anguish, apprehension,
astonishment, aversion, awe, bewilderment, bliss, comfort,
commiseration, compassion, concern, consternation, contentedness,
contrition, curiosity, delight, despair, devotion, disappointment,
disgust, dismay, distress, dread, elation, empathy, esteem,
exasperation, exhilaration, fright, frustration, gladness, gratitude,
grief, happiness, horror, joy, loyalty, nostalgia, passion, pity, pride,
regret, relief, remorse, respect, reverence, sadness, satisfaction,
sentiment, shame, sorrow, surprise, sympathy, tranquillity, veneration,
vexation, woe, wonder, worry, yearning...

*When a man's an empty kettle, he should be on his mettle, and yet I'm
torn apart.*

*Just because I'm presumin' that I could be kind of human if I only had
a heart.*

*I'd be tender, I'd be gentle, and awful sentimental regarding love and
art*

*I'd be friends with the sparrow and the boy who shoots the arrow if I
only had a heart.*

*Picture me, a balcony, above a voice sings low, "Wherefore art thou,
Romeo?"*

*I feel a beat, how sweet!*

*Just to register emotion, jealousy, devotion, and really feel the part*

*I would stay young and chipper and I'd lock it with a zipper if I only
had a heart.\**

*\*\"If I Only Had a Brain\" and \"If I Only Had a Heart\": Lyrics by
E.Y. Harburg, 1938*

**Interpretive methods and techniques for developing tangible/intangible
links into opportunities for intellectual**

**and emotional connections to the meanings/significance of**

**the resource:**

Stories

Quotes

Explanations

Analogies

Examples

Illustrations

Discussions

Demonstrations

Music

# Drama 

# Props 

# Role-playing

Comparisons

Participation

Questioning techniques

Word pictures, description

Problem-solving

Activities i.e. games

Presentation of evidence

# Sequences of questions 

Sensory involvement

AND...

**Practice Activity**

*Select an interpretive program or media product at your park or site
and identify the following:*

-   *What are the primary tangible resources identified in the product?*

-   *What intangible meanings/universal concepts are linked to those
    tangible resources?*

-   *What methods or techniques are used to develop those
    tangible-intangible links into opportunities for the audience to
    make intellectual and/or emotional connections to those meanings?
    (see list above)*

-   *Do these connection opportunities tend toward the intellectual, the
    emotional, or both? Identify the possible intellectual or emotional
    connections that these opportunities might provoke, evoke or inspire
    for different audiences. (see list on other side of worksheet)*

> *(For further reference, see the Interpretive Process Model at:
> www.nps.gov/idp/interp/processmodel.pdf)*