by Sean Sweeney, Advance
Let’s take, for example a resource that is indeed Free, Interactive, Visual, Educationally relevant, and Speechie — Earth Sun and Moon—An Interactive Learning Experience. After an engaging and thankfully brief and forgiving arcade game, students are able to navigate their rocket to the Earth, Sun and Moon and use key strokes and mouse movements to make things happen. The activity creates a strong visual experience that helps kids move beyond the simple knowledge that “Yep, we’re on Earth” to understand some of the larger scientific concepts. In the classroom setting, I have seen kids left to their own devices to complete this activity and then be largely unable to articulate what any of it meant. However, with discussion facilitated by the SLP throughout the activity, kids can be scaffolded to use more complex language to produce some wonderful descriptions and connections.
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