Sensor 29. Thermic Tablets

Shu-Chen Yen's On-Line Montessori Albums

SENSORIAL-MOTOR ALBUM

29. THERMIC TABLETS

MATERIAL:

A box with 4 pairs of tablets. made of felt, wood, stone, and metal.

PRESENTATION:

1. Take the materials to the table.

2. Take the materials out and mix them.

3. Tell the child that "I am going to show you how to do with the theoretic tablet by feel its temperature."

4. Close eyes, use both palms to touch the tablets; one palm hold a tablet and another keep touch different tablet until feel the same one and put them together.

5. Continue doing the same activity until all tablets are arranged in pair.

6. Mix the tablets and let the child do it.

7. Put the box on its top and take tablets back to the box pair by pair.

POINT OF INTEREST:

The moment of forming a pair.

CONTROL OF ERROR:

If two tablets do not feel the same temperature (and visual control).

DIRECT AIM:

Tactile discrimination of temperature.

INDIRECT AIM:

To make the child conscious that different materials have different temperatures.

AGE:

4 years.

LANGUAGE:

Names of the materials: felt, wood, stone, metal; warm, cool, cold.

NOTE:

Another box can be made with synthetic materials: plastic, glass, cork, etc.