[Nfb-science] High school biology help needed

[Salisbury, Justin Mark]

Hi Mary Ann,

    Thank you for being so involved in your daughter's education.  I think that you have taken great steps already.  

One great way to make diagrams accessible that is also very low-tech that I have used is printing out large drawings and sticking Wikki Stix to them.  Wikki Stix stick well to Braille paper, and would probably stick well to many other surfaces.  (I've only ever stuck them to Braille paper, so I cannot attest to their adhesive abilities on other surfaces.)  They're basically sticks of wax the size of pipe cleaners, and I've bought them in art and craft stores, children's toy stores, and dollar stores.  

3D models are so cool, too.  

My entire high school bio class made models or DNA strands out of pipe cleaners and beads as a project, and it helped me learn the structures very well.

Good luck!

Justin

Justin M. Salisbury
Undergraduate Student
The University Honors Program
East Carolina University
salisburyj08 at students.ecu.edu

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."    -Aristotle
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From: nfb-science-bounces at nfbnet.org [nfb-science-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of Mary Ann Bennett [mab749 at verizon.net]
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 1:22 PM
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Subject: [Nfb-science] High school biology help needed

Hi everyone,

I'm new to the list.  My daughter is visually impaired, in 10th grade
biology class, and I was recently told by her science teacher that, though
the teacher has a lot of interesting videos on cells, she doesn't show them
in class, because of my daughter.  Thus far, biology, which is a fascinating
subject, has been nothing but memorizing terms and my daughter is
understandably becoming very bored.  I've googled 3D versions of plant and
animal cells and have found a few that I think might be affordable to order
for home.  I've requested described DVDs from dcmp.org, but haven't received
them yet.  Do you have any recommendations for making high school biology
interesting for a visually impaired student?

Many thanks,
Mary Ann Bennett
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