This unit contains many activities involving accessing online resources about energy, which may pose some accessibility issues for those who are blind, have low vision or are dyslexic. Have students work with partners or in small groups so that each student can contribute according to his or her strengths. For information on suggested accommodations, select an activity below.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Consider the position, lighting, and seating needs of the student during presentations or when using text, manipulatives, transparencies or other projected images.
Provide large-print lecture notes, handouts, and worksheets.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Provide a sign language interpreter, real-time captioning, and/or an FM system.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Support the student's use of a computer equipped with a special input device (e.g., voice input, Morse code, alternative keyboard) whenever appropriate. For more information, consult the video presentation and publication Working Together: Computers and People with Mobility Impairments or the AccessSTEM Knowledge Base.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Provide a mechanism for students to learn material and make up assignments that they missed because of absences.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Establish and honor classroom schedules and practices. Let the student know ahead of time of any changes to the classroom routines.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Consider the position, lighting, and seating needs of the student during presentations or when using text, manipulatives, transparencies or other projected images.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
Use a scanner to create an electronic version of images, charts, or maps, and display them in a larger format on a computer monitor, or use an LCD projector.
Consider having the student work with a partner and providing extra assistance if this activity presents significant challenges.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
Use tactile accommodations of graphic materials:
Consider making shapes for flow charts or room layouts from tagboard or foam core for the student to manipulate.
Embossed graph paper is available from the American Printing House for the Blind. Additional high- and low-tech ideas for creating graphs are available from the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
Consider having the student work with a partner and providing extra assistance if this activity presents significant challenges.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Provide a sign language interpreter, real-time captioning, and/or an FM system.
Allow flexible seating to provide a clear view of a sign language interpreter, lip reading, visual aids, and demonstrations.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Consider the position, lighting, and seating needs of the student during presentations or when using text, manipulatives, transparencies or other projected images.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
Consider having the student work with a partner and providing extra assistance if this activity presents significant challenges.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
Consider having the student work with a partner and providing extra assistance if this activity presents significant challenges.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Consider the position, lighting, and seating needs of the student during presentations or when using text, manipulatives, transparencies or other projected images.
Provide large-print lecture notes, handouts, and worksheets.
Consider computer accommodations for writing activities. Provide a document format that can be edited electronically by the student, such as an accessible PDF file, a Word document, or a plain text document. Consult the video presentation and publication Working Together: Computers and People with Sensory Impairments.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Provide audiotaped, Brailled, or electronic-formatted lecture notes, handouts, and texts.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
For writing activities, provide computer accommodations. Provide a document format that can be edited electronically by the student, such as an accessible PDF file, a Word document, or a plain text document. Consider a computer with optical character recognition, voice output, Braille screen display, and/or embossed Braille output. For more information, consult the video presentation and publication Working Together: Computers and People with Sensory Impairments or the AccessSTEM Knowledge Base.
For students who are legally blind yet have a fair amount of usable sight, consider the accommodations listed for individuals with low vision.
Consider having the student work with a partner and providing extra assistance if this activity presents significant challenges.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
A computer with voice output software is an appropriate accommodation for students with learning disabilities. Consult the video presentation and publication Working Together: Computers and People with Learning Disabilities and the AccessSTEM Knowledge Base.
Consider having the student work with a partner and providing extra assistance if this activity presents significant challenges.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Support the student's use of a computer equipped with a special input device (e.g., voice input, Morse code, alternative keyboard) whenever appropriate. For more information, consult the video presentation and publication Working Together: Computers and People with Mobility Impairments or the AccessSTEM Knowledge Base.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Consider the position, lighting, and seating needs of the student during presentations or when using text, manipulatives, transparencies or other projected images.
Provide large-print lecture notes, handouts, and worksheets.
Consider computer accommodations for writing activities. Provide a document format that can be edited electronically by the student, such as an accessible PDF file, a Word document, or a plain text document. Consult the video presentation and publication Working Together: Computers and People with Sensory Impairments.
To find talking calculators, consult the National Federation of the Blind Independence Market Online.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Provide audiotaped, Brailled, or electronic-formatted lecture notes, handouts, and texts.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
For writing activities, provide computer accommodations. Provide a document format that can be edited electronically by the student, such as an accessible PDF file, a Word document, or a plain text document. Consider a computer with optical character recognition, voice output, Braille screen display, and/or embossed Braille output. For more information, consult the video presentation and publication Working Together: Computers and People with Sensory Impairments or the AccessSTEM Knowledge Base.
To find calculators for students who are blind, consult the National Federation of the Blind Independence Market Online or American Printing House for the Blind.
For students who are legally blind yet have a fair amount of usable sight, consider the accommodations listed for individuals with low vision.
Consider having the student work with a partner and providing extra assistance if this activity presents significant challenges.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
A computer with voice output software is an appropriate accommodation for students with learning disabilities. Consult the video presentation and publication Working Together: Computers and People with Learning Disabilities and the AccessSTEM Knowledge Base.
Consider having the student work with a partner and providing extra assistance if this activity presents significant challenges.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Support the student's use of a computer equipped with a special input device (e.g., voice input, Morse code, alternative keyboard) whenever appropriate. For more information, consult the video presentation and publication Working Together: Computers and People with Mobility Impairments or the AccessSTEM Knowledge Base.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Consider the position, lighting, and seating needs of the student during presentations or when using text, manipulatives, transparencies or other projected images.
Provide large-print lecture notes, handouts, and worksheets.
Consider computer accommodations for writing activities. Provide a document format that can be edited electronically by the student, such as an accessible PDF file, a Word document, or a plain text document. Consult the video presentation and publication Working Together: Computers and People with Sensory Impairments.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Provide audiotaped, Brailled, or electronic-formatted lecture notes, handouts, and texts.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
For writing activities, provide computer accommodations. Provide a document format that can be edited electronically by the student, such as an accessible PDF file, a Word document, or a plain text document. Consider a computer with optical character recognition, voice output, Braille screen display, and/or embossed Braille output. For more information, consult the video presentation and publication Working Together: Computers and People with Sensory Impairments or the AccessSTEM Knowledge Base.
For students who are legally blind yet have a fair amount of usable sight, consider the accommodations listed for individuals with low vision.
Consider having the student work with a partner and providing extra assistance if this activity presents significant challenges.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
A computer with voice output software is an appropriate accommodation for students with learning disabilities. Consult the video presentation and publication Working Together: Computers and People with Learning Disabilities and the AccessSTEM Knowledge Base.
Consider having the student work with a partner and providing extra assistance if this activity presents significant challenges.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Support the student's use of a computer equipped with a special input device (e.g., voice input, Morse code, alternative keyboard) whenever appropriate. For more information, consult the video presentation and publication Working Together: Computers and People with Mobility Impairments or the AccessSTEM Knowledge Base.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Consider the position, lighting, and seating needs of the student during presentations or when using text, manipulatives, transparencies or other projected images.
To find talking calculators, consult the National Federation of the Blind Independence Market Online.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
Use a scanner to create an electronic version of images, charts, or maps, and display them in a larger format on a computer monitor, or use an LCD projector.
Consider having the student work with a partner and providing extra assistance if this activity presents significant challenges.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
To find calculators for students who are blind, consult the National Federation of the Blind Independence Market Online or American Printing House for the Blind.
Use tactile accommodations of graphic materials:
Consider making shapes for flow charts or room layouts from tagboard or foam core for the student to manipulate.
Consider having the student work with a partner and providing extra assistance if this activity presents significant challenges.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Provide a sign language interpreter, real-time captioning, and/or an FM system.
Allow flexible seating to provide a clear view of a sign language interpreter, lip reading, visual aids, and demonstrations.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Provide audiotaped, Brailled, or electronic-formatted lecture notes, handouts, and texts.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
For writing activities, provide computer accommodations. Provide a document format that can be edited electronically by the student, such as an accessible PDF file, a Word document, or a plain text document. Consider a computer with optical character recognition, voice output, Braille screen display, and/or embossed Braille output. For more information, consult the video presentation and publication Working Together: Computers and People with Sensory Impairments or the AccessSTEM Knowledge Base.
To find calculators for students who are blind, consult the National Federation of the Blind Independence Market Online or American Printing House for the Blind.
Use tactile accommodations of graphic materials:
For students who are legally blind yet have a fair amount of usable sight, consider the accommodations listed for individuals with low vision.
Consider making shapes for flow charts or room layouts from tagboard or foam core for the student to manipulate.
Consider having the student work with a partner and providing extra assistance if this activity presents significant challenges.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.
Provide a sign language interpreter, real-time captioning, and/or an FM system.
Allow flexible seating to provide a clear view of a sign language interpreter, lip reading, visual aids, and demonstrations.
A computer with voice output software is an appropriate accommodation for students with learning disabilities. Consult the video presentation and publication Working Together: Computers and People with Learning Disabilities and the AccessSTEM Knowledge Base.
Consider having the student work with a partner and providing extra assistance if this activity presents significant challenges.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
Consider the position, lighting, and seating needs of the student during presentations or when using text, manipulatives, transparencies or other projected images.
Provide large-print lecture notes, handouts, and worksheets.
Consider computer accommodations for writing activities. Provide a document format that can be edited electronically by the student, such as an accessible PDF file, a Word document, or a plain text document. Consult the video presentation and publication Working Together: Computers and People with Sensory Impairments.
To find talking calculators, consult the National Federation of the Blind Independence Market Online.
Give clear verbal descriptions of visual aids including video and printed content used throughout your presentation.
Use a scanner to create an electronic version of images, charts, or maps, and display them in a larger format on a computer monitor, or use an LCD projector.
Consider having the student work with a partner and providing extra assistance if this activity presents significant challenges.
Support the student's use of a computer equipped with a special input device (e.g., voice input, Morse code, alternative keyboard) whenever appropriate. For more information, consult the video presentation and publication Working Together: Computers and People with Mobility Impairments or the AccessSTEM Knowledge Base.
Request and encourage student input on how to best accommodate the student's learning needs.