Name of teaching material
Easy-to-Handle Shapes self-made product
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| Target |
Children and students having poor fine motor skills Children and students having week visual perception and/or space cognition |
|---|---|
| Disability category | visual impairment deaf and hard of hearing mentally challenged physically challenged health impairment speech and language disorder autism emotional disturbance multiple disabilities developmental disabilities other deaf-blind |
| Teaching units / Applicable scenes | arithmetic, mathematics pre-school education |
| Specific purposes | ・To make children and students notice the shapes of objects and their characteristics by actually touching and moving the objects |
| Considerations for disability characteristics | ・Depth was added to colored (triangle, rectangle, square, circle, etc.) cardboard pieces by adhering sponge to facilitate children with poor fine motor skills handle them. Even children having difficulty picking up a thin cardboard piece (such as due to lack of the pincer grasp) can grab and handle Easy-to-Handle Shapes. |
| Expected effects and results | ・Children may have difficulty grasping the characteristics of shapes (ex. triangle, rectangle, square and circle) just by looking at textbook diagrams. Touching and handling actual objects help children notice the lines and apices that constitute the shapes and learn the concept of what a triangle, rectangle, square and circle are. |
| How to use |
Materials: cardboard (or heavy-weight graph paper), construction paper (heavy-weight, colorful paper), glue (or double-sided adhesive tape), thin sponge, magnet sheet Tools: scissors How to make: 1) Draw the necessary shapes (such as triangle and square) on the cardboard, and cut them out. Trace out the shapes on the construction paper, and cut them out. Glue them together. 2) Trace out the shapes on the sponge and magnet sheet. Cut them out. Glue the sponge piece to the cardboard, and then glue the magnet piece to the sponge. Use the shapes in arithmetic or mathematic classes. |
| Related teaching materials and information | |
| Useful for other students | Easy-to-Handle Shapes are useful also in any elementary school, etc. |
- Informant Yoshiharu Okamoto,Special Needs Education School for the Physically Challenged, University of Tsukuba
- Keywords arithmetic, mathematics,Shapes
- Translator Yuko Makuuchi
- Created 2023-08-16 14:13:03
- Updated 2023-08-16 14:20:32