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

[Mikaela Stevens]

Children get wiggly, sighted or blind. My students are sighted. I use stress balls, play dough, doodling or teach them a skill like knitting. Good luck.

Best regards,
Mikaela

> On May 30, 2019, at 5:55 PM, David Sexton via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> 
>>  
>> Our narrative is done, and we have just about everything we need for the
>> experiments.
>> 
>>  
>> 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.
>> 
>>  
>> 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.
>> 
>>  
>> Since we're dealing with younger students this year, we want to try and keep
>> everything between 5 and 15 minutes.
>> 
>>  
>> 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.
>> 
>>  
>> 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.
>> 
>>  
>> 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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