Database of Teaching Materials and Methods for Special Needs Education

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Target	Children with visual impairment in the fourth grade of the Elementary Department (9 year olds) Elementary Department (6 to 11 year olds)
Disability category	visual impairment
Teaching units / Applicable scenes	science
Specific purposes	To enable children to learn how heat is conducted, by touching metal with their finger
Considerations for disability characteristics	Hot water and a metal bar are used, for safety. A high level of safety can be ensured by using hot water, instead of a gas burner. Since two metal bars can be inserted at the same time, children can feel the changes in temperature in two different metal bars, without measuring time. The metal bars are marked with scales, so children can touch them at the same height.
Expected effects and results	Children can feel that the temperature of the metal first rises where it is directly heated, and eventually throughout the bar. When children place a beaker or thermo-cup containing hot water into an insulated milk carton container, they can feel how the water temperature is comparatively maintained, and how the temperature of metal bars inserted into the hot water changes.
How to use	(1) Place a beaker with hot water in it in a milk carton container. (2) Insert two different metal bars into the hot water, through two slits in a polystyrene lid. (3) Hold the bars with two fingers at the same height to feel the different changes in temperature.
Related teaching materials and information	Cup with netting
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Informant Special Needs Education School for the Visually Impaired, University of Tsukuba
Keywords Science in the Elementary Department