Teaching Science to Students with Visual Impairments
(View Complete Item Description)This article describes how to modify science lessons for visually impaired students.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This article describes how to modify science lessons for visually impaired students.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this activity, students work together to put a food chain in order. Each student is labeled as one of the organisms that is part of the food chain.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this activity, students are introduced to the concepts of static and kinetic friction and discover how the type of surface involved affects the strength of the frictional force.
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In this activity, students use numbered cards to represent genes and demonstrate the four types of chromosomal mutations.
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In this activity students play the roles of the rotating Earth and Moon in order to model tides.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this activity students model seafloor spreading and the position of newer rock and older rock in relation to the mid-oceanic ridge.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this activity, students put cotton balls, crushed paper, and sand in boxes with different sizes to explore the relationship between mass, volume, and density.
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In this activity, students review the names and formulas of the major polyatomic ions by playing a bingo-type game.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this lesson, students learn the concept of metamorphosis in an organism's life cycle by studying the growth and development of butterflies, frogs, and dragonflies. Lesson is posted with permission from the Perkins School for the Blind.
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In this activity, students explore means of physically separating a mixture using dissolving, filtration, and evaporation.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this activity, students will compare the rate of reaction using ground chalk and whole pieces of chalk when reacted with vinegar.
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In this activity, students build a model of an active galaxy. From this, they will learn about the geometry of the components of an active galaxy and develop an understanding that different viewing angles can lead to dramatically different interpretations of a galaxy's appearance. The activity includes background information, glossary, essential questions, extension activities, transfer activities, adaptations for visually-impaired students, and an answer key. Additional materials needed to do this activity include a compass. This is activity one of three in the Active Galaxies education unit.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
This activity focuses on the question, What do active galaxies look like when viewed from different distances? Students work in small groups to learn about the small angle formula, construct a template, and use it to correctly measure the angular size of a person. Students then use the Active Galaxies Poster to measure the angular size of a galaxy. Materials are commonly available or inexpensive items, e.g., scissors, cardboard, construction paper, calculator, protractor, meter stick or measuring tape). Includes background information, glossary, essential questions, extension activities, transfer activities, adaptations for visually-impaired students, and an answer key. This is activity 2 of 3 in the Active Galaxies Educators Guide.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan
This 1982 srticle reports on a program in which the late choreographer, Alvin Ailey, taught movement to blind students.
Material Type: Reading
This curriculum unit, from the Anti-Defamation League, provides educators with the tools to challenge myths and stereotypes about people with disabilities and to promote awareness of various forms of disability.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students listen to excerpts about a blind man's journey up Mt. Everest, then write a bio-poem about him.
Material Type: Lesson Plan