Learners with multiple disabilities need to engage in projects that push them to know their full potential. They need to be able to express themselves in a variety of ways, and this very thoughtful lesson does just that. They make a...

It is key to the learning process to make everything a child with visual impairments does as tactile as possible. After reading Anne of Green Gables, the class discusses her life events in order to make a tactile time line. They...

Stimulate the senses with a handprint art project! Flake laundry detergent, water, and food coloring are mixed together to create a substance that has a pleasant smell and will dry hard and dimensional. Children with visual disabilities...

In his article about color-blind casting entitled, "Willy Loman Is Lost, Still Looking for Stimulus Plan and Some Dignity," Charles Isherwood quotes August Wilson as saying,  "To mount an all-black production of a 'Death of a...

Students yell out their farm animal noise while being blind folded and have to find their animal group. For this group activity lesson plan, students learn how to work together to achieve a common goal.

Applying engineering concepts to the field of medicine, pupils design a device to help test peripheral sight. The class learns and follows a specific design process for engineers before separating into groups; each group builds...

Students explore their five senses by experimenting with classmates. In this blindness instructional activity, students utilize blindfolds while performing everyday activities and discuss the inherent challenges of not having vision....

Students play a guessing game. In this performing art lesson, students guess what each ingredient is by touching each while being blind folded.

I absolutely love this idea. Children with visual impairments create tactile journals which describe an event from the previous week in an artistic way. They verbally describe one event from the previous week and then use a wide array of...

Students advocate for people with disabilities. In this Helen Keller lesson, students listen to the story A Picture Book of Helen Keller by David A Adler. Students discuss how Helen Keller learned to communicate and became an advocate...

Who knew a state quarter could say so much? Alabama's quarter is embossed with an image of Helen Keller, pupils will use this image to think about what the phrase "Spirit of courage" means. They will use a graphic organizer to...

Students play 2 games where they are blind folded and have to work together. In this physical education lesson plan, students have to find a missing person, and play Animal Call Out.

Second graders explore living without sight. In this senses lesson, 2nd graders review the different senses and what they use for each sense. Students discuss what it would be like to not be able to see and they read a story about a...

Eighth graders create blind contour drawn portraits. They work in small groups and pose for each other, creating portraits that express multiple points of view. Students also view a PowerPoint presentation on Cubism and complete a...

Students spell words in braille and learn how to use braille to punch out their names. In this braille lesson plan, students discuss what life would be like for a visually impaired person.

Middle schoolers are responsible for producing works for, coordinating (with the teacher?s assistance) and mounting an exhibition to be presented at a parent-teacher open house. They examine literature by Henry David Thoreau and other...

Students discuss being a friend and sing songs about friendship.  In this friendship instructional activity, students listen to When Turtle Grew Feathers.  Students  answer questions about the friends in the story....

Students cut out the nucleotide models and have an opportunity to relax and chat. Using imagination, students pretend to be molecules acting out protein synthesis and whole body movement.

Students understand the concepts of responsibility and dependency. Students are paired up, one student is blind folded and the other leads on a trust walk which illustrates the concepts of responsibility and dependency.

Students practice visualization through a fantasy trip and test their powers of observation by blindly identifying their own potatoes.

Aspiring writers complete and discuss fill-in-the-blank cliché expressions, define cliché as a form of predictable writing, take cliché expressions and turn them into new, unpredictable ones, read poetry that illustrates writer's use of...

Practice sequencing with your 2nd graders via Patricia Polacco's Civil War book Pink and Say. Begin with a blindfold and a bag of mystery items. Connect their use of clues to identify what they can't see with the skill of making...

Personality traits and physical appearance traits within families are the focus here. Learners make a poster which lists the shared physical traits they have with their family. Peers look at each poster and write down the traits they see...

Students create a superhero object for their dad. For this Father's day lesson students choose a characteristic valued in their father. They draw a superhero object to represent the characteristic and write a paragraph to explain.