STEM
This activity is typically used to teach energy concepts and demonstrate how the sun warms air and makes air rise.
Susan Osterhaus shares her insights related to instructional strategies and resources for teaching math to students who are blind or visually impaired.
Models used in Science are generally visual in nature. These tactile models benefit students who are blind and visually impaired.
Students who are blind or visually impaired measure the force necessary to move a book over various surfaces and determine relative friction.
I am a student at Kennedy Middle School in Cupertino, California and I am working on making a tool to help the visually impaired learn the atomic structures
Hands-on activity for students who are blind or visually impaired to learn about classification of organisms.
Tips on using volunteers to help students who are blind or visually impaired with their science projects
Instructions for creating an interactive model of tectonic plates for students who are blind or visually impaired.
Hands-on activity for students who are blind or visually impaired to learn about inertia by building towers with paper cups.
In this activity, students who are blind or visually impaired will build the phases of the Moon and label them.
Hands-on activity for students who are blind or visually impaired to use formula triangles to solve 3-variable equations.
How to use Dr. Seuss books to practice language skills and learn about science properties.
Hands-on activity for elementary school students who are blind or visually impaired to learn about various food sources animals consume.
In this video, Kate Fraser demonstrates strategies for teaching students with visual impairment to measure dry ingredients.
This video provides ideas for how Wikki Stix can be used to create tactile graphics or 3 dimensional constructions.
Hands-on activity to introduce students who are blind or visually impaired to the study of sound by making a sound maker or instrument.
This simple activity allows students who are blind or visually impaired to build the 3 shapes of bacteria.
This hands-on science activity is a tactile Punnett square utilizing an APH Tactile Graphic Aid for students who are blind or visually impaired.
Hands-on activity with a tactile model to teach students who are blind or visually impaired about the Medelian Trait in pea plants.
This interactive model allows the student to manipulate the position of the Moon as it revolves around the Earth in order to understand the relative positions.
Hands-on activity to teach students who are blind or visually impaired about blood clotting.
Learn how to teach students who are blind or visually impaired to heat water safely for a science class.
Tips on collaborating with other professionals when teaching students who are blind or visually impaired.
A hands-on activity for students who are blind or visually impaired to learn about blood types.
A hands-on activity for students who are blind or visually impaired to explore the role that motors and mechanics play in robotics.
This hands-on activity is designed to teach students who are blind or visually impaired causes of friction.
This model is of the phases of the Moon for students who are blind or visually impaired.
In this tutorial participants will be able to use strategies and activities presented to introduce STEM concepts
This activity describes walking a student through the phases of the Moon utilizing a fan as the Sun and the student on a rolling stool as the Moon.
Hands-on activity to help students who are blind or visually impaired understand endocytosis and exocytosis by making models.
Activity adapted for students who are blind and visually impaired to get a better understand of chromosomal mutations.
This is a simple model of a chromosome that is accessible to students who are blind or visually impaired.
Make bird treats to teach a range of basic concepts while using action-related vocabulary and purposeful hand skills.
Video demonstration of how to use playdoh to adapt science lessons for students who are blind or visually impaired
This activity is designed as both instruction and assessment of the parts of the microscope and the function of each part.
This presentation shown that 2-9 year old can have fun with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).
Blog about a study to determine whether students who are blind or visually impaired are more motivated to work on math problems in braille/print or an iPad app.
Hands-on activities to help students who are blind or visually impaired understand science concepts by using real and relative distances.
An activity for students who are blind or visually impaired to use Borax and water to create crystals on textured pipe cleaners.
In this activity, students "discover" the parts of the cell represented by objects related to the functions of the cell organelles.
Activity exploring Newton's Third Law of Motion for students who are blind or visually impaired.
Description of adapting a triple beam balance for use by students who are blind or visually impaired.
This video demonstrates various ways to adapt measuring spoons, syringes, cylinders, and beakers in the Science classroom when conducting experiments.
The activity described is a "model" of the atom describing the relative distance between the nucleus and the electrons in an atom.
Activity for students who are blind or visually impaired to create an ATP Molecule model.
Students who are blind and visually impaired learn base units and prefixes in the metric system by walking a kilometer.
Relative size of planets shown in common household objects in an activity for students who are blind or visually impaired
Hands-on activity to teach students who are blind or visually impaired about inertia and mass to illustrate Newton's Second Law.