By Silvana Veinberg | Executive Director
With great enthusiasm, we started working on the manual for teaching Spanish to deaf children through science. Our first action was to invite the participants of the interdisciplinary team that will be the developers of the activities, the illustrations and the videos to a meeting at the Canales’ headquarters.
The technical coordinator, Silvia Zgryzek, is a teacher of the deaf and a specialist in teaching Spanish as a second language. It is she who will lead the project and the one who convoked the first meeting attended by the ICT specialist, the illustrator and the video coordinator.
Each unit will include science topics that will be detached from a story. The story tells about a group of children who go camping and have to choose where they are going, the activities they are going to do, etc.
In unit 1, the topic is the weather and in the starting video, the children will introduce themselves and they will talk about their tastes and preferences about the places to go camping. A script will be made before filming the video in which the themes that will serve as triggers for the unit will be developed. The idea is that after watching the video the children will converse in sign language about what they like most, the mountain or the beach, if they have been worried about the weather, and so on.
The children want to go to different places: mountain, sea, beach, places with forests, with snow. There like many places but it depends on the weather. Some like snow, others prefer heat. Some places are nice but it is very cold at night. Also rain is a problem.
The activities will be diverse: join with arrows, answer questions, complete pictures, associate illustrations with texts, memory games, etc.
Each unit also incorporates a systematization section of what has been learned in Spanish. Activities will also be incorporated to use the technology.
In Manual 1 that was elaborated during 2017, the activities were related to art: painting, theater, mime, circus, photography.
We would like you to see some pictures that show the recording of the videos during the elaboration of the first manual and some of the illustrations and activities.
We keep moving forward thanks to your support!
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