Building Astronomy Curriculum to Include the Sight Impaired: Week long summer camp activities for Middle School Students adherent to Washington State Curriculum Standards (EALR's)

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Jan 2011

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #248.14; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011

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Currently astronomy learning is heavily geared towards visual aids; however, roughly 10 million people in North America are sight impaired.
Every student should have access to meaningful astronomy curriculum; an understanding of astronomy is an expectation of national and state science learning requirements.
Over the last ten years, Noreen Grice has developed Braille and large print astronomy text books aimed at sight impaired learners.
We build upon Grice's written work and present here a five day lesson plan that integrates 2D reading with 3D activities.
Through this curriculum, students develop an intuitive understanding of astronomical distance, size, composition and lifetimes.
We present five distinct lesson modules that can be taught individually or in a sequential form: the planets, our sun, stars, stellar evolution and galaxies.
We have tested these modules on sight impaired students and report the results here.
Overall, we find the work presented here lends itself equally well to a week long science camp geared toward middle school sight impaired taught by astronomers or as supplemental material integrated into a regular classroom science curriculum. This work was made possible by a 2007 Simple Effective Education and Dissemination (SEED) Grant For Astronomy Researchers, Astronomical Society of the Pacific through funds provided by the Planck Mission, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.

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