Name of teaching material
Multi-legged race band self-made product
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| Target |
Elementary, junior high, and high school children and students with hearing impairment Children and students having basic motor skills Children and students having difficulty feeling beats and rhythm |
|---|---|
| Disability category | deaf and hard of hearing mentally challenged developmental disabilities other |
| Teaching units / Applicable scenes | life studies music physical education special activities activities for independent living instruction for living skills instruction of play teaching and learning tools, auxiliary aids |
| Specific purposes |
Multi-legged race involves three or more participants moving in unity having their right legs connected to those of the others with a band and so their left legs. The game helps children and students: - Move in coordination with the other members of the team by utilizing all of their senses - Experience the joy and fun of acting in unity with mates - Cultivate the power to interact with others and solve an issue by cooperating with others |
| Considerations for disability characteristics |
Special considerations should be paid on: - Difficulty of hearing - Psychological barrier to join a team - Safety |
| Expected effects and results |
- Physical experience of regular beats helps children and students cultivate the musical senses of beats and rhythms and play an instrument or sing by feeling the beats themselves. - The cultivated sense of rhythm enables choral reading in class, especially reading poems, lyrics and other phrases with rhythm. - Talking about strategies with mates before race gives an opportunity for children and students to act as an leader, engage in active communication, feel the sense of unity as a team, and realize the importance of acting as a group. |
| How to use |
- Divide children/students in groups of 3 to 5 - Ask each team to - Line up in a row so that a person stands behind another - Join their legs with the bands - Walk to the goal |
| Related teaching materials and information | |
| Useful for other students |
- Informant KAWANAGO Minori, Special Needs Education School for the Deaf, University of Tsukuba
- Keywords music, rhythm, teamwork
- Created 2025-02-05 11:38:26
- Updated 2025-02-05 11:38:26