Name of teaching material
A match striker self-made product
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| Target |
Children and students with visual impairment Elementary, junior high, and high school divisions |
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| Disability category | visual impairment |
| Teaching units / Applicable scenes | science |
| Specific purposes |
◎ Students will be able to light a match, thus overcoming one hardship. This experience will give them a sense of power to overcome other hardships as well. ○ A single match can teach the children about the nature of fire. |
| Considerations for disability characteristics | Students can easily light a match by holding the match and moving it forcefully about 1 cm against a large piece of cardboard covered in match-striking chemical and fixed to the table. Because there is some distance between the student's hand holding the match and the point where the match is lit, the student can relax. The teacher can support the student’s hand and light the match together with the student several times if the student is scared to light it. |
| Expected effects and results |
Children will be able to light a gas burner and a spirit lamp easily, and this will give them confidence. The children will thus begin to actively participate in experiments. |
| How to use |
Place a soap holder (the object at right Photo 1) on a laboratory table and then put the white side of the cardboard (the side to which a piece of white polyvinyl chloride board is attached; see Photo 1) on top of the soap holder. When the cardboard is pushed strongly against the soap holder the soap holder becomes fixed by suction to the table, forming a stable surface. A match can then be lighted by being moved forcefully about 1 cm against the brown (upper) side of the cardboard, which is covered in match-striking chemical. A match can be easily lighted with one hand in this way. |
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| Useful for other students |
- Informant Special Needs Education School for the Visually Impaired, University of Tsukuba
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- Created 2016-11-02 14:11:30
- Updated 2020-06-08 12:43:01