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Child Mind Institute: Treating Sensory Processing Issues
This article looks at ways to address sensory processing disorders with therapy. The idea behind SI therapy is that specific movement activity, resistive bodywork, and even brushing of the skin can help a child with sensory problems...
Other
Ontario Council for Technology Education: Sensory Garden Design [Pdf]
In this project, students will design a sensory garden. The area to be designed is for a flower bed 3' wide, 5' long and 3' high. The design must be wheelchair-accessible from all sides. Students will research the different sensory...
Indiana University
Indiana University: Sensory Integration: Tips to Consider
This article gives examples of how it looks when a child is experiencing sensory processing issues and gives tips on how to provide a sensory diet to "nourish" a child's nervous system. The examples and tips are categorized into groups...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Central Processing
Students learn the pathways that sensory systems follow into the central nervous system, and understand the difference between the two major ascending pathways in the spinal cord.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Visual Pathways in the Brain, and What Happens When They Break
"Sensory processing and vision" questions are provided on this resource. This study resource from Khan Academy provides practice questions for the MCAT.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Commanding a Robot Using Sound
Students continue their exploration of the human senses and their engineering counterparts, focusing on the auditory sense. Working in small groups, students design, create and run programs to control the motion of LEGO TaskBots. By...
Other
Come Unity: Sensory Integration Dysfunction
This interview with Carol Kranowitz, author of "Out-of-Sync Child," offers information for parents and others in contact with children who have sensory integrative dysfunction. The author discusses the most common sensory problems, what...
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Come Unity: Sensory Integration Dysfunction
This interview with Carol Kranowitz, author of "Out-of-Sync Child," offers information for parents and others in contact with children who have sensory integrative dysfunction. The author discusses the most common sensory problems, what...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Starting & Stopping With Strong Imagery: Revision Strategy
In this lesson, students will engage in revising their writings to incorporate sensory images. Students will brainstorm topics of places, away from their home, that are special. Then students will choose and then write a descriptive...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Human and Robot Sensors
Young scholars are provided with a rigorous background in human "sensors" (including information on the main five senses, sensor anatomies, and nervous system process) and their engineering equivalents, setting the stage for three...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Sounds All Around
Students follow the steps of the engineering design process to create their own ear trumpet devices (used before modern-day hearing aids), including testing them with a set of reproducible sounds. They learn to recognize different...
Other
Kid Sense: Strength and Endurance
Strength and endurance are important to enable children to perform every day functions such as fine motor skills, gross motor skills, playground skills, and sporting skills. This article explains how to tell if your child has problems...
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online
Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...
Frontiers Media
Frontiers: Seeing With Your Ears: A Wondrous Journey Across the Senses
For dozens of years it has been believed that the brain is organized into "sensory areas": that is, that there is a "visual area," an "auditory area," and so forth, and that the visual area can only process visual information. It has...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: The Wonder Pill: Placebo 1
Investigate how the brain can be fooled into incorrectly processing sensory information. Conduct an experiment to fool someone into thinking you've touched his or her hand.
Other
Simply Psychology: Visual Perception Theories
Bottom-Up Processing and Top-Down Processing are two schools of thought when scientists discuss how humans perceive the senses which they experience. This article explores the two theories of visual perception and cites evidence and...
Auburn University
Auburn University: Hand Gestures for Phonemes
Come and learn some hand gestures for phonemes designed by the faculty and students at Auburn University. Students and teachers will find these gestures beneficial in the learning process.
Understood For All
Understood.org: Trouble With Self Regulation: What You Need to Know
Self-regulation skills develop gradually, and there are ways to help your child improve. This article discusses working on self-awareness, impulse control, and goal-setting to help your child learn to self-regulate.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Exploring a More Specific Story
In this lesson plan, Ralph Fletcher's Marshfield Dreams is used as a mentor text. Students will write stories about an important friendship in their life. Then students will revise and attempt to make sure their writings have stayed on...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Bizarre Foods With Ralph Fletcher: A Narrative Revision Lesson
In this instructional activity, Ralph Fletcher's writing style is introduced to student writers. Students will write a rough draft about a time they ate, or a time when they saw someone else eat, something unusual. Then students will...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: The Learning Brain: Neuroscience
This series of videos introduces students to the brain, including why it is so special, its parts and functions and how it recalls memories and stores new information. Other videos explain how the brain processes sensory information and...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Brain: Teaching Modules
A collection of 32 video learning modules on everything to do with the brain.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Protect Those Eyes
Students design and build prototypes for protective eyewear. They choose different activities or sports that require protective eyewear and design a device for that particular use. Students learn about the many ways in which the eyes can...
LD Online
Ld Online: Learning Disabilities Online: Phoneme Awareness Activity
What do you know about phoneme activities for collaborative classrooms? This site will show how to develop your own activities to sharpen your students phonemic awareness skills. This informative resource will support any teacher's work...