Suitable for: 11-14 years (Key stage 3)
Available braille grades:
This introductory pack progresses further with more difficult concepts. There are plenty of raised images to help the child understand such things as facial expressions, body language, emotions and perspective. This fun educational resource contains brightly coloured raised tactile pictures and a lively audio guide. This resource provides an introduction to the Living Paintings system for explaining and exploring pictures which consists of raised, tactile pictures, accompanied by audio descriptions. It will help blind and partially sighted young children to progress with using Living Paintings free library of Touch to See Books and enable them to gain the most from the experience.
The way that we arrange our faces can express how we feel; happy, sad, bored, grumpy etc.
In thermoforms 1 and 2 we are going to look at 4 faces each of exactly the same person, Tim, but each is different as he experiences different feelings. Now turn to thermoform 1, find the two faces.
Voice 2
What a day! At the end of it, I don't know whether to laugh or cry! Oh, hi, I'm Tim, what a day I've had - sorry to go on about it - but"¦
Well, to start with, everything was fine. I woke up, the sun was shining, it was the first of the holidays and I felt great. You can tell I did by looking at the first picture of me.
Boy’s face with different expressions
Woman in different positions
Chair and Pipe, a painting by by Vincent van Gogh
Pipe on Chair (detail of the painting)
Boat and Man in Boat
Tree with the sun and shadow
House and House with Garden
House with garden and fencing and flowerbed
Plain Landscape and Landscape with river
Landscape with river, houses and a boat
Inntroductory Pack No.3.Despite their serious complications the girls really enjoyed the stories with help by staff.Janine
Amazing... these are AMAZING!! ... staff who have seen them think they are great as well.Library Member
FantasticA fantastic resource. The resources generated questions and very strongly promoted understanding and made delivery much easier. The student benefited greatly, as did I. We all look forward to trying other packs.Rose
Can't stop talking about itMy children absolutely loved this pack. They felt as though they 'could see again'. Thank you.Library Member
Laurence Anholt
Based on the BBC Doctor Who television series
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