Elephants and Their Young

Meridith Allison and Shelia Henk

Accommodations for Students with Special Needs:

Blindness

• verbal descriptions of demonstrations and visual aids
• Braille text and raised line images
• Braille or tactile ruler, compass, angles, protractor
• Braille equipment labels, notches, staples, fabric paint, and Braille at regular increments on tactile ruler, glassware, syringe, beam balance, stove, other science equipment
• different textures (e.g., sand paper) to label areas on items

Low Vision

• verbal descriptions of demonstrations and visual aids
• preferential seating to assure visual access to demonstrations
• large-print, high-contrast instructions and illustrations
• raised line drawings or tactile models for illustrations
• large-print laboratory signs and equipment labels
• video camera, computer or TV monitor to enlarge microscope images
• hand-held magnifier, binoculars
• large-print calculator

Source:

http://www.washington.edu/doit/Brochures/Academics/science_lab.html

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Gifted

• Ask open ended questions
• Present opportunities for students to express personal opinions
• Include discussion about current events
• Modify the lessons so that they incorporate into a larger project
• Relate to student’s personal interests
• Incorporate creative writing into the lessons
• Provide opportunities for higher-order thinking and open-ended investigations
• Relate the study of elephants to other content areas
• Allow students to explore and make educated guesses
• Present a problem for students to investigate
• Give students the chance to explain their reasoning

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