Name of teaching material
What’s my temperature today? self-made product
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| Target |
・Young and older children who can understand the meaning of pictures showing emotion ・Young and older children who know the words, or even vaguely understand the meaning of, “fever” and “body temperature” ・Young and older children who can understand the image, or meaning of the colors, of traffic lights ・Young and older children who can match numbers ・Preschool and elementary divisions |
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| Disability category | mentally challenged autism |
| Teaching units / Applicable scenes | instruction for living skills other |
| Specific purposes |
・Young and older children will be able to find out their body temperatures. ・Young and older children will be able to find out the state of their bodies from the results of the temperature-taking. |
| Considerations for disability characteristics |
・Information is presented visually so that young and older children who cannot understand in words, or who can understand in words but cannot adjust their behavior, can easily understand it by just looking at it. ・The same color-coding as in traffic lights is used. ・Pictures of emotions that easily depict the state of the body are used. |
| Expected effects and results |
・Some children who came to understand the meaning of temperature-taking no longer refused to have their temperatures taken. ・Some children began to understand and accept that they could not go outdoors because they had a low-grade fever, even when they were moving around with plenty of energy. ・Some children began to lie down in bed on their own after finding out that they had a fever. ・Some children came to understand how the numbers below the decimal point should be read, and some began to show an interest in these numbers. ・As we continued to use this teaching material every time temperatures were taken, some children began to become aware of the state of their bodies just by hearing or seeing their temperatures. ・Children who claimed to be unwell for psychological reasons and wanted to avoid certain activities became able to change their feelings when the results of the body temperature measurement were shown to them using this teaching material. |
| How to use |
1. Measure the body temperature 2. Place the arrow on the teaching material so that it points at the value obtained in the body temperature measurement. (Numbers are divided into three stages: “feeling good,” “caution,” and “fever”.) ・Children who can read numbers place the arrow pointing to the correct number by themselves. (VELCRO tape was used to make the arrow movable and reusable by anyone.) 3. The child, together with a nurse, looks at the teaching material and checks the state of his/her body. |
| Related teaching materials and information |
・Visual Symbols for Easy Communication: 1,000 useful symbols that help the daily lives of the challenged (with CD-ROM), Empowerment Kenkyujo. ・Application to weight management, peak expiratory flow monitoring of asthmatic children, and so on. ・Application to neurotypical young children |
| Useful for other students |
- Informant Special Needs Education School for Children with Autism,University of Tsukuba
- Keywords Body temperature, physical condition, and temperature taking
- Created 2016-11-02 14:37:13
- Updated 2023-12-08 18:21:22