Curated OER
Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis
Learners cut out the nucleotide models and have an opportunity to relax and chat. Using imagination, students pretend to be molecules acting out protein synthesis and whole body movement.
Curated OER
Thai Children's Trust: School for the Blind
Students explore their five senses by experimenting with classmates. In this blindness lesson, students utilize blindfolds while performing everyday activities and discuss the inherent challenges of not having vision. Students view a...
Curated OER
You Too Can Haiku: How to Write a Haiku
Students explore language arts by writing their own poems. For this haiku lesson, students investigate the Japanese culture and their beautiful music, poetry and art. Students count the syllables in every line of a haiku poem and write...
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Text Project
Text Project: Fyi for Kids: Vol. 4, Issue 2: Young Inventors: Louis Braille [Pdf]
This magazine article explains how Louis Braille developed a system of reading for the blind which was called Braille in his honor.
Other
Duxbury Systems: Louis Braille and the Braille System
A brief biography of Louis Braille, who developed the Braille System of printing and reading for the blind and vision-impaired. The site also explains the Braille System and provides charts of Braille characters.
Read Works
Read Works: Louis Braille
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Louis Braille and the alphabet he created for blind people. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: Read Without Seeing
Step-by-step instructions, with photos, of how to create a message in Braille by gluing beans, or a substitute, onto paper.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Read With Your Fingers
Use braille to create a message for a friend.
Other
American Foundation for the Blind: Louis Braille
Here you can learn all about Louis Braille (1809-1852 CE) and how he developed the Braille System, a way of reading and writing for the blind.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Write and Read Braille
There is a special writing system for the visually impaired called braille. This activity will show you how to read with your fingers.
Other
The Story of Louis Braille
A young French boy named Louis Braille, who himself was blind, developed a way for blind people to read. This is his story.
Other
Louis Braille School: Louis Braille Biography
Presents comprehensive biographical information on Louis Braille, the founder of a system of reading and writing by raised dots, and Valentin Hauy, the founder of the world's first school for the blind in Paris, France.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Changing Your Mind: Understanding Braille
Explore the communications system based upon a pattern of raised dots called Braille, and design a method of inquiry that uses the scientific method to compare the effectiveness of reading dot cells against reading raised alphabet...
Other
Bookshare
Bookshare.org offers both individual subscriptions and accounts for schools or groups a program that allows persons with blindness or visual impairments to download popular books from the Internet. Digital books can then be read with a...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Invention of the Week: Ernesto E. Blanco: Stair Climbing Wheelchair
Read about MIT teacher and practitioner Ernesto Blanco, inventor of the stair-climbing wheelchair. This article provides details on the inventor's life, his career outside of MIT, and his inventions that continue to help the handicapped...
My Hero Project
My Hero: Helen Keller
Despite her disability Helen Keller became a famous lecturer, writer, and advocate for the deaf and blind. Read about Keller's education and influential life and check out the "related links" for further reading and research.
Library of Congress
Loc: Nls: The Jalna Series by Mazo De La Roche
An introduction to the Jalna series, "sixteen novels that tell the story of the Canadian Whiteoak family from 1854 to 1954." Read about this fictional family, learn what critics have said its content and author, Mazo de la Roche, and...
University of Washington
University of Washington: The Senses Touch
Do you know what the largest sensory organ of the body is? Use this site on skin and its sense of touch to learn more.