Teacher Notes: Sensory
Awareness
Explore Your Environment
Directions: Spend 15 minutes outside or inside your home
or school. Use your senses to answer these questions:
1. List everything you see.
2. Breathe in and describe what
you smell.
3. Close your eyes and list the sounds that you hear.
Where did they come from?
4. Touch something (not another
person) close by and describe how it feels.
Best Books for Teaching About Senses
Blindness and Sight Links
American Foundation for the
Blind
Bookshare -
Accessible Online Library
What is
Braille? Braille Alphabet
Blindness Resource
Center
Braille Institute of
America
Braille
Instruction Resources
Blindness Resource
Center Resource Sites on Blindness
Deaf-Blind-Hearing
Disability Resources
Deaf Resource Library
Eye Diseases and
Conditions
Low Vision
Resources
National Eye Institute
Optics for Teens
YouTube - Signing Time! "Nice to Meet You"
Easy Stereogram
Builder
Deafness and Hearing Links
Deafness Resources on the Net
Sign Language - Learning, Teaching, and Using Sign
Language
• ASL • American Sign Language
ASL
Browser
Signing Savvy | ASL Sign
Language Video Dictionary
Deafness Research Foundation - DRF Waiting
for the World to Change: Video on the Deaf Community
Teaching method helps deaf children learn to read
Hearing impaired children - one
early reading success story
Hearing aids revolutionized by sound advances in digital technology
- USATODAY
Updates and research on hearing
loss in children
Educational Technology in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Classroom -
Classroom 2.0
Another trip - Grade 2,
Huberman school (Hearing impaired class)
Mrs. Berg's Class
Reflections in Deaf Education
Audacity: Free Audio
Editor and Recorder
Audioboo |
