Database of Teaching Materials and Methods for Special Needs Education

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Target	Children who have difficulty with: • hand-eye coordination • understanding starting and ending points • understanding cause-and-effect relationships.
Disability category	physically challenged　multiple disabilities
Teaching units / Applicable scenes	activities for independent living
Specific purposes	Children will be able to: • improve their hand-eye coordination • understand starting and ending points • understand cause-and-effect relationships as seen by manipulating objects.
Considerations for disability characteristics	• Before dropping the marbles, make children focus on the marbles using their senses of touch and vision. • If children cannot push marbles into the container by themselves, a teacher assists them. • If it is hard for children to push marbles into the container, make the hole larger.
Expected effects and results	Children will be able to: • understand the relationship between the cause and effect of what they have done • act purposefully • be actively involved with physical objects.
How to use	(1) Place a marble on the indentation in the lid of the container. (2) Push the marble into the container with the finger. (3) A marble dropped into the container makes the bell ring. Ensure that the children hear the bell.
Related teaching materials and information	Commercially available plastic food storage container, bell, and marbles Container size: 13 (length) × 20 (width) × 12 (height) cm
Useful for other students

Informant Special Needs Education School for the Physically Challenged, University of Tsukuba
Keywords Cause-and-effect relationships, hand-eye coordination, starting point and ending point