[Nfb-science] Need Guidance: Several Heavily Visual Labs Coming Up

Fri Jan 7 03:58:11 UTC 2011

The book "Privileged Hands" is available from NLS.

Mike

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On Behalf Of Cindy Robinson
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 7:04 PM
To: nfb-science at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Nfb-science] Need Guidance: Several Heavily Visual Labs Coming
Up

Hi th404,

Here I am again: a teacher for the visually impaired. I will address the 2nd
tree lab. When you have to learn about how people slash and burn or gather
trees to harvest, you can always get two or three different kinds of
candles, about a dozen a piece, and put them all on a cake. If it seems too
childish, I understand. I complete this lab with my high school students.
They practice taking away certain trees to simulate the different methods of
harvesting trees. You can also use a variety of pencils in clay. A cake that
has icing works better though. 

Now to learn of the seedlings, wouldn't it be best to go to the site and get
leaf samples of the five kinds of seedlings you need to count. You can then
take the time to study them and learn the shape of them as no sighted person
can. 

There is a 275 page, used book you can get from Amazon.com for one dollar. I
recommend it highly. It is about a man, named Geerat Vermeij, that studied
shells. He become the leading expert on shells. It is called Privileged
Hands. Through his hands, he studied many shells, and even began to notice
things that no one else ever had. He could hold a shell and tell you what
beach it came from. He noticed some changes of shells no one had ever seen
or understood. He became one of the most  accomplished evolutionary
biologists of our time and the world's leading authority on an ancient "arms
race" among mollusks. The book will help you in that he writes about his
views, his practices, his observations, and his family.  It helps you
understand that you will learn as every one else, but it will just take a
bit longer. Go to the site ahead of time and give yourself that time that
you need to do the job well. I know you will be able to complete a grid and
surprise yourself. Use two pop  sickle sticks connected to a string to mark
the grid, so you can follow the string to finish the observation. You can go
across with the string, sinish that line and move the sticks and string up
and repeat. When I was visually impaired, that is the way I marked my
garden: with string. Wishing you the best.

Cindy Robinson

> From: biologize at hotmail.com
> To: nfb-science at nfbnet.org
> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 04:53:25 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-science] Need Guidance: Several Heavily Visual Labs 
> Coming Up
> 
> 
> 
> Hi. I am a V I teacher. For the tree rings, you need someone to carve 
> out a little line at every yearly ring. You can differentiate the two 
> kinds of wood by burning the denser wood with a little wood burner and 
> carving the spring wood at an angle to mark the ring. I really hope 
> someone can do this for you. Ask for someone at Project Learning Tree 
> for the state department of forestry. The state department of forestry 
> will usually burn and carve wood for you. They promote the study of 
> forests. Good luck. And if you want me to, I will do it for free if 
> you are allowed to give me your college address and specific 
> professor. I will mail it to him. We call them "tree cookies." I am a 
> member of Project Learning Tree here. cindy robinson
> 
> spring wood is laid down early in the growing season and tends to be
lighter and more porous than summer wood which is laid down later in the
growing season and tends to be darker and more dense. 
> 
> I will look over the rest tomorrow. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: th404 at comcast.net
> To: nfb-science at nfbnet.org
> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 10:26:57 -0800
> CC: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Nfb-science] Need Guidance: Several Heavily Visual Labs 
> Coming Up
> 
> You probably know that during the past quarter, I have been taking an
environmental science course at my local community college for a General
Studies degree. I'm in the second course in the series, and there are a
number of labs coming up that either use chemicals, or are heavily dependent
on measurements. I don't know if the lists accept attachments, but I felt
the best way to give people an idea of what these labs are like is to send
the information about them that I've gotten from my instructor. The
instructor and I are not sure how to deal with these labs, but I figured
that if you got a look at them, you could give me some ideas on how I might
be able to participate and not just sit on the sidelines. So if you have any
ideas on how I might deal with these labs, I'm all ears. Thanks.
> 
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