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Perkins School for the Blind

I'm Thinking Of...

For Teachers K - 6th
Learning how to describe an object or a person is a great way to develop verbal and written expression. Learners with special needs improve their verbal expressive skills and concept development skills while playing a guessing game. The...
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Perkins School for the Blind

Treasure Hunt

For Teachers 1st - 6th
On, over, and under are some very common prepositions; but how can you teach these concepts to children with visual impairments? Here, is one way. Kids will practice following verbal commands as they go on a classroom treasure hunt. They...
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Perkins School for the Blind

Where Shall I Put It?

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Position and positional phrases are concepts that need to be constructed for learners with low or no vision. Help them gain competence and a conceptual understanding of words like on, in, and under with a funny game. After gathering a...
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Perkins School for the Blind

Language Experience Stories

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Here is a great way to bring core content to your special education classroom. Included is a set of instructional ideas intended to help learners increase their verbal and written expression through storytelling. Tape recorders, story...
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Science and Art Museum

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Imagine each one of your learners on task and interested in scientific material. Learners investigate science related art by creating a small museum! Using digital cameras, pupils photograph different scientific actions that look...
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Limericks

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Introduce your class to the limerick with a focus on the form and its history. Resource is short on procedure, but contains useful suggestions about where to look for school-appropriate limericks for young readers. Examine the...
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Assessing Reading Fluency Using the Flip Video

For Teachers 1st - 12th Standards
Utilizing a video camera, learners will read a story while being recorded. Later, they analyze the footage. After identifying their strengths and weaknesses with the teacher, they discuss reading fluency techniques. Adaptation: Instead...
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Every Day Edit - Chuseok: Korea's "Thanksgiving"

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing worksheet, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the Korean celebration Chusok. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Every-Day Edit: Mother's Day

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing learning exercise, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about Mother's Day. The errors range from punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar.
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Walk a day in my moccasins

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Learners create videos about students in their classroom. In this self-expression lesson, learners use videos to give voice to students who are reluctant or can't participate. Learners listen to several books and generate questions about...
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Sim's Cities

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate city management and government by creating a fictional city in groups.  In this civics lesson, students create rules and a mascot for their fictitious city which they create from poster board cubes.  Students create...
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Literacy Through Photography

For Teachers K - 5th
Students practice using words to describe photographs they have taken.  In this descriptive writing instructional activity, students utilize a disposable or digital camera to take 5 pictures of their life after school.  Students create...
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21st Century Social Skills

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Explore communication techniques by using the latest video technology.  In this special education lesson, students create a video discussing their own social goals for the future.  Students utilize Flip Video cameras to document their...
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imovie-ski trip

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students create a movie using pictures taken from a class ski trip. In this iMovie-ski trip lesson the students determine which pictures they would like to represent their trip. Students then begin to construct their movie by using their...
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Picture Perfect Parts of Speech

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students demonstrate the eight parts of speech with personal photographs. In this parts of speech instructional activity, students take photographs and label them with the appropriate concrete example of each part of speech. 
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Using the Commentaries in Class

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine language and communication by listening to a commentary radio show.  In this communications lesson, students listen to Michael Josephson's radio broadcast using the Internet and analyze his words and their meaning....
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Meet The Artist

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Young scholars investigate art history by researching a particular artist.  In this biographical lesson, students are given a brief summary of a artist's life and are assigned to create a report on the person.  Young scholars create an...
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Put Your Face on the Map

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners investigate topography and contour lines by examining a human face.  In this mapping lesson, students create a plaster cast of a face and create a map of the contours of the face one centimeter at a time.  Learners examine the...
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The Words that Surround Us

For Teachers 2nd - 11th
Students investigate writing that we read daily by analyzing advertisements and articles.  In this language arts lesson, students discuss the images and writing they see daily, where it comes from, and what it represents.  Students...
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Stained Glass for Your Class

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students investigate the history of stained glass and the creator of the art form.  In this art project lesson, students utilize drawing paper to create their own style of stained glass using transparent paint.  Students tape their...
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Pitch-er Perfect

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars investigate music and what causes the pitch of a sound.  In this sound properties lesson, students listen to a story about animals and the instinctual pitch they have in their voice and how musicians have that as well....
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Life Sentence

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate a vocabulary word by holding a fake auction.  In this word visualization lesson, students are assigned a vocabulary word through a class auction and must illustrate its meaning and find its definition.  Students...
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How To Teach How - To Writing

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice their writing skills by creating "How To" articles.  In this journalism lesson, students grab tasks from a hat and are asked to explain orally how to complete these activities.  Students complete flow charts with their...
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A Piece of the Puzzle

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Discover the process of writing a story by comparing it to a puzzle. Begin by examining a diagram shaped like a puzzle which contains important elements of a story.  Learners mix and match the pieces with elements of a story they are...

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