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when to observe students.
Limitations
This study was conducted on a convenience sample of volunteer
participants at a week-long summer camp. Since participants self-selected
into the camp, the sample may have been skewed toward students who had
particular interest or skills in science which may have influenced the findings.
No random sampling or treatment were applied, merely observation,
document analysis, and informal questioning. Therefore the findings cannot
be generalized to other groups of students with visual impairment.
Implications for Practitioners and Families
The materials necessary for the students to enact their inquiries were,
in some cases, outside the scope of normal classroom budgets. For example,
the two students who worked on the hover craft model required a leaf blower,
large inner tubes (3 of them because they kept bursting them with the hot
glue gun!), and power tools. However, most projects required nothing more
than common kitchen utensils, office supplies, computers, fish aquariums,
etc. The only specialty items needed for accommodating blindness were
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