TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Let Your Ears Do the Walking
In the previous lesson, students learned about the issue of bycatching by fisheries and how it affects marine habitats. Dolphins are one of the main species affected by bycatching. Dolphins use echolocation to identify the location of...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Can You Hear It?
In the previous lesson, students learned about the issue of bycatching by fisheries and how it affects marine habitats. Dolphins are one of the main species affected by bycatching. While dolphins can use echolocation to identify the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Echolocation in Action!
In this activity, students will experience echolocation themselves. They actually try echolocation by wearing blindfolds while another student makes snapping noises in front of, behind, or to the side of them.
Other
Perkins School for the Blind: Object Functions
This activity helps students who are blind or visually impaired to identify the functions of common objects. Alternatively, for other students a blindfold could be used.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: The Five Senses
An activity where students try to identify objects using only their senses, with and without a blindfold. The instructional activity is also appropriate for special needs or ELL students in higher grades.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Sensitivity Tester
Explore skin sensitivity on different areas of the human arm by performing a blindfold test with paperclip points touching the skin. Compare and contrast results.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Science and the Brain
Describe the "mush-brain" effect, and test blindfolded subjects for their ability to identify items by smell. Explore the effect of biofeedback to help overcome illnesses, and attempt the mind-over-body techniques of visualizing and...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Gladiators
This illustration shows various types of gladiators, each type with with his specific weapons attributed to him. Gladiators were swordsmen whose profession was to fight for the public amusement. Gladiators are said to have been borrowed...