Name of teaching material
Silicone Mat marketed product
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| Target |
・Children with visual impairments Elementary, junior high and senior high school level |
|---|---|
| Disability category | visual impairment |
| Teaching units / Applicable scenes | arithmetic, mathematics drawing and crafts, art |
| Specific purposes | To enable children to confidently use both hands when learning to make diagrams, graphs, letters and drawings. |
| Considerations for disability characteristics | Ensuring sufficient white space when providing the graph and drawing paper allows for easier hand movement. Ensuring a thickness of around 5mm allows for sufficient thickness to stick pins. This, in turn, allows for a set square, etc., to be fixed in place, as well as allows for the pins to be placed as point coordinates and connected with string or rubber bands. When wet, the silicone sheet will adhere to the desktop, allowing students to focus on using both hands to draw lines and perform other tasks without the sheet moving. |
| Expected effects and results |
・Students can focus on task operations thanks to the firmly embedded pins and sheet which does not move. ・If raised surface drawing paper is used on top of the silicone sheet, this will allow students to check lines and figures that they draw. |
| How to use |
Use a wet cloth, etc., to lightly wipe the surface of the s silicone sheet, ensuring that the paper does not move. If using raised surface drawing paper, draw lines using a ballpoint pen. When providing instruction on drawing graphs, use raised line graph paper and mark points using setting pins. The pins used should be pressed all the way through the sheet so that they can be removed quickly while also avoid being easily misplaced. |
| Related teaching materials and information |
・Raised surface drawing paper, tactile reading ruler, ruler set (Japan Braille Library teaching aid) Silicone sheet supplier: Kinsei Rubber Co., Ltd., etc. |
| Useful for other students |
- Informant Special Needs Education School for the Visually Impaired, University of Tsukuba
- Keywords Diagram, graph, hand usage, stable, fixed
- Created 2017-11-02 14:57:15
- Updated 2020-06-08 14:41:44