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to measure student growth. Each day, the students were introduced to math
concepts through classroom activities and movement activities.
In the early years of the program, teachers of students with sensory
disabilities could attend with their students. Teachers could receive graduate
level credit for the instruction they received in serving the needs of their
students with visual impairments and for curriculum development. The
teachers and their students would participate in some activities separately
and others as a group. The camp has now evolved to focus only on the
student's educational opportunities.
Each math concept was taught through about an hour of classroom
activities and an hour of movement activities. Some examples of activities
include:
pairing measurement and graphing skills with track and field events.
The students would measure their resting heart rates before doing running
and throwing events and then again after the fitness activities. All of the
measurement data would be recorded and used in the classroom. They
would use their personal data to create a graph of their own running times
and use their resting and active heart rates to create a giant wall sized graph
of the whole group's results. See picture below.
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