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Curriculum Clipboard - National Curriculum subject support
Summary: Subject focused information to help you teach and support the National Curriculum to children with sight problems.
- Finding books in alternative formats
- English and Drama
- Maths
- Science
- Art and Design
- Design Technology
- Geography and History
- ICT
- Modern Foreign Languages
- Physical Education
- Sex and Relationship Education (SRE)
Explore this section to find creative ways to teach and support the National Curriculum to children with sight problems. Articles will continue to be added to this area. We welcome your comments, suggestions, and submissions! Email us at curriculum@rnib.org.uk.
Finding books in alternative formats
Publisher Lookup aims to help educationalists working with disabled learners to get an electronic version of published texts as quickly as possible. It provides key contacts for publishers of academic texts and a guide for obtaining texts in alternative formats.
English and Drama
- Teaching English to children with sight problems
- Assessment of pupils in English
- Resources for teaching English
- Strategies for teaching drama
A pupil's perspective: being Stage Manager
A teacher's experience: making a dramatic entrance!
Maths
- Teacher tips: teaching maths to pupils with sight problems
- Resource cupboard essentials: maths 'must haves' for primary teachers
- Teaching maths using Wikki-Stix and Blue tac!
Science
- Teacher tips: essential science equipment
- Topic spotlight: teaching light
- Working safely
- Using other senses to help teach sciences
- Advice for a mainstream science teacher
A teacher's experience: modifying a practical investigation
Art and Design
- Teacher tips: fun with paint, clay and fabric
- Art for pupils who are blind or partially sighted
- Creativity and visual art in early years education
- Art and design - read the 'One of the Class' book extract
Design Technology
- Teacher tips: food technology
- Topic spotlight: teaching about resistant materials
- Pupil shout: 'what we really like about food technology'
A teacher's experience: The Oxo Cube Challenge
Geography and History
- Teacher tips - geography and history
- Topic spotlight: teaching map work skills
- Teaching geography - article by the Head of Geography at RNIB New college
- Field trips
A pupil's experience - geography in year 9
ICT
- Topic spotlight: teaching basic IT concepts
- Providing access to ICT
- IT for pupils with sight loss - glossary of terms
Modern Foreign Languages
- Teaching modern foreign languages
- Adapting Resources - advice for Support Teachers and Assistants
- The Inside Story - ways in which papers are modified
Physical Education
- Teacher tips - physical education
- Subject spotlight: planning a physical education programme for children with sight problems
- Sport focus: GOALBALL - by a year 7 pupil
A teacher's experience - spotlight on Angela, a PE teacher
Sex and Relationship Education (SRE)
Content author: curriculum@rnib.org.uk
Last updated: 22/07/2008 10:47
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