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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Wristwatch Design for the Visually Impaired

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are given a fictional client statement and required to follow the steps of the engineering design process to design a new wristwatch face for a visually impaired student at their school.
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Bookshare

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Bookshare.org offers both individual subscriptions and accounts for schools or groups a program that allows persons with blindness or visual impairments to download popular books from the Internet. Digital books can then be read with a...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: The Need for Money That Everybody Can Use

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The U.S. Currency currently has two faces. The old bills are being replaced with new designs. The study of the look of the bills will lead into a discussion of their usefulness for a segment of our population: the visually impaired people.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Braille Was Invented: Moments of Vision 9

For Students 9th - 10th
Today, Braille is the universally accepted system of writing for the blind, translated into almost every language in almost every country across the globe. But it didn't actually start out as a tool for the blind. Jessica Oreck details...
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Incredible Art Department

The Incredible Art Department: Special Education & the Arts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Suggestions and links for teaching art to students with special needs or language barriers.

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