Resources for teaching geoscience (and other science) to visually impaired students
Site development is in progress - please
email me if you know of a valuable resource that should be listed here.
- Soils
- Dr. Elissa Levine, Soil Scientist for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and PI for the Soil Characterization Investigation of The Globe Program.
- View the Powerpoint on Globe's summer camp for visually impaired kids
- Space
- NASA Helps Visually Impaired Students Touch the Sun, Dec. 2004.
- Space Camp for Interested Visually Impaired Students (SCIVIS)
- Beck-Winchatz, B., Hoette, V., and Grice, N., 2003, Making
Astronomy and Space Science Accessibleto Blind and Visually Impaired
Students, AGU Poster.
- Touch the Universe: A NASA Braille Book of Astronomy, by Beck-Winchatz
- Touch the Stars, by Noreen Grice
- Lubick, Naomi, June, 2004, Touching the Stars, Geotimes.
- General
- Perkins School for the Blind has links to many invaluable resources for teaching science to visually impaired students. PLEASE visit this site!
- Many resources are listed here as well...
- Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired has links to many resources in a variety of disciplines. Click here and scroll to the science section about half way down.
- Mastropieri, M.A., and Scruggs, T.E., 1992, Science for Students with Disabilities, Review of Educational Research, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 377-411.
- Masteropieri, M.A., Scruggs, T.E., and Magnusen, M., 1999, Activites-Oriented Science Instruction for Students with Disabilities, Learning Disability QUarterly, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 240-249.
- Barrier
Free Education - highlights the lives of visually impaired (other
disabilities as well) people working in math, engineering, and science.
- UC Davis professor Gary Vermeij may be visually impaired, but he's been studying sea shells for more than 35 years - listen to the NPR story about his recent research or read a recent (06/11/2008) New York Times article on his story.
- National Center for Blind Youth in Science
- Geology
- Asher, Panoti M., 2001, Teaching an introductory Physical Geology course to a visually impaired student, Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 49, n.2, p. 166-169..
- Locke, Sharon M. (Eastern Alliance in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), The Status of persons with Disabilities in the Geosciences, 9 pp.
- Travis, Jack W., 1990, Geology and the visually impaired student, Journal of Geological Education, v. 38, p. 41
- Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired: Stone Sculpting