[nobe-l] Keeping Students' Hands Busy During Presentations

[David Sexton]

When I was in 2nd grade, my teacher gave me some polymer clay to play 
with during videos.

That really helped me focus on the video.


David

On 5/30/2019 4:24 PM, Tina Hansen via NOBE-L wrote:
> As you may know, my team and I have been working on a project for this
> year's BELL program to mark the anniversary of Apollo 11. The project is
> really taking shape.
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> Our narrative is done, and we have just about everything we need for the
> experiments.
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> However, the concern I have now was prompted by something that happened
> during last year's BELL program. When we made our presentation, the
> instructor showed a 45-minute video to the students documenting Eric
> Weihenmayer's story. There was no good place to stop it, and the students
> were not able to look at our display until it was over.
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> During the video, a sighted observer noticed that the students' hands were
> engaged in unacceptable behavior. They were sitting for almost 45 minutes.
> Also. Since they'd just had lunch, they had a lot of energy. After they were
> able to get a look at our props, they had a hard time getting settled again.
> This is why this year, we've built time in for them to look at props.
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> Since we're dealing with younger students this year, we want to try and keep
> everything between 5 and 15 minutes.
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> So we want to find a way to keep their hands occupied while they're
> listening to our pre-recorded narrative. If they're hyper from lunch, as
> they likely will be, we need to help channel their energy so they can stay
> focused.
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> To make things interesting, we're playing our narrative in segments. We'll
> do an activity, then play some of our narrative, then do another activity.
> But during the narrative segments, we want to keep their hands busy so they
> won't engage in unacceptable behavior.
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> I know many educators deal with this whenever they play any pre-recorded
> material. I can't be the only one concerned about this. Does anyone on the
> list have any suggestions for something that will keep their hands busy
> while their minds are focused on our narrative? Thanks.
>
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