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Let the child’s imagination be the guide during theconstruction of the miniature scene. Relative sizeinconsistencies should be permitted when addingthe tactile embellishments, but don’t forget tocompare the size of the various models to eachother in the final creation. For example: Is the carlonger than the side of the house? Are the modelsof the people taller than the front door? In short,take advantage of scale differences noticed in thefinal scene as a teaching tool or problem-solving task. This pretend activity canhelp reinforce how small models, realistic or abstract, can be useful forrepresenting real things in our surroundings and for demonstrating the spatialrelationship of those things to each other.What is a View?Front view, side view, top view, bird’s eye view, and cross-section are all visualterms that don’t translate into tactile understanding without intentional teaching.Below are some hands-on ways to demonstrate these various terms before actuallypresenting the two-dimensional displays of the house model.78 Encore
Front View:• Use a person’s face to demonstrate front view. If we explore a person’s face fromits front view, we can see and feel both eyes, both ears, the entire forehead, thefull mouth and nose. A profile of a face is not as complete.Side View:• Use the provided toothbrush and its tactile representations (thermoformed orraised-line depictions) as examples of side view. First have the child trace hisfinger along the edge of the handle and along one side of the bristles. This is theview captured in the supplied tactile representations.Top View/Overhead View:• Using the provided plastic cup, illustrate that a top view of this object is merelya circle. Have the child trace the upper ridge of the cup. If a top view of the cupwere shown in a tactile picture, it would look very similar, but larger than thatshown in the raised-line drawing of the ball.79 Encore
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• Visit a hair salon and talk to
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• Label crayons with braille stic
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• Allow the child to assist in me
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• Have the child practice fine mo
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• Use some of the take-apart puzz
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• Discuss, make, and/or solve oth
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• Have the child practice scissor
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Page 44 and 45: • Have spoon relay races: Using a
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