Name of teaching material
A cardboard model of an intersection self-made product
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| Target | Students in the lower secondary division or higher who use a white cane to obtain information while walking |
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| Disability category | visual impairment |
| Teaching units / Applicable scenes | activities for independent living |
| Specific purposes | To enable students to understand the whole picture of an intricately shaped intersection |
| Considerations for disability characteristics | Intersections are not tactile, so it is hard for students to perceive their whole picture. Therefore, making a small, simplified model helps the students to understand an intersection’s positional relationships and thus increases their understanding of their environment. |
| Expected effects and results | * |
| How to use | I created this model to explain the environment of an intersection by placing it on a real intersection during outdoor walking practice. To make the model easy to carry and easy to understand by touch at the site, I made it palm-sized and simplified. The major aim of walking practice at the intersection was to enable students to understand the differences in height among the three roads. Therefore, I did not use a planar model that simply represented the shape; instead, I made a three-dimensional model. Using the characteristics of the cardboard, I folded the cardboard to make slopes to enable the students to understand the differences in height among the roads. |
| Related teaching materials and information | The cardboard model is not suitable for facilitating spatial perception of entire three-dimensional buildings, but it is suitable for showing the crossings and curves of lines at intersections and pedestrian walkways at railway stations, thus giving the children an easy understanding of positional relationships. The cardboard model is relatively easy to make; therefore, even if the model is used only once during walking practice near the student’s home, it is possible to quickly model places that are difficult to explain. Use of the model helps students efficiently to gain an understanding of their environment. |
| Useful for other students |
- Informant Special Needs Education School for the Visually Impaired, University of Tsukuba
- Keywords Intersection, understand environment
- Created 2017-03-02 15:02:50
- Updated 2020-06-08 14:35:41