Making Science Accessible to Students with Visual Impairments: Insulation-Materials Investigation

Autor/inn/en	Kizilaslan, Aydin; Sozbilir, Mustafa; Zorluoglu, Seraceddin Levent
Titel	Making Science Accessible to Students with Visual Impairments: Insulation-Materials Investigation
Quelle	In: Journal of Chemical Education, 96 (2019) 7, S.1383-1388 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-9584
Schlagwörter	Science Instruction; Visual Impairments; Teaching Methods; Academic Accommodations (Disabilities); Scientific Concepts; Blindness; Hands on Science; Elementary School Students; Middle School Students; Elementary School Science; Secondary School Science; Manipulative Materials; Thermodynamics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Visual handicap; Sehbehinderung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Blindheit; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Hilfsmittel; Thermodynamik
Abstract	Science education could be made more accessible to students with visual impairments through collaboration and specific adaptation in both the science classrooms and laboratories. For example, by providing simple adaptations or doing some essential modifications, students can gain experience with measuring, balancing, and weighing a variety of materials. Unfortunately, many concepts in science have been found inaccessible to students with visual impairment because of the use of figures, equations, and graphs. An activity was designed to teach the insulation properties of different materials to students who are blind or visually impaired. The activity uses simple, economical, and easily accessible everyday materials to familiarize students with the concepts of heat transfer and insulating properties and the importance of thermal-insulation materials. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01