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

Wed Jan 12 00:26:39 UTC 2011

Tina,

I have just now finished taking a look at your labs.  In addition to what's 
already been suggested, for the soils labs you can always do some of the 
physical work (pouring, using the burner, etc.).  There are also pH meters, 
and possibly scales, that can be connected to PCs running, for example, 
JAWS; there is at least one vendor you could use, depending on how much you 
want to invest, and there well may be others.

Best,
Nathanael

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
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Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-science] Need Guidance: Several Heavily Visual Labs 
ComingUp

> The book "Privileged Hands" is available from NLS.
>
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
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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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