Practicum Activity

During my practicum's service hours at a school for children with autism, we were challenged to create an activity for the classroom we were assigned to. This activity was to address one or more of the lessons they were learning. I was in a class of seven and eight year olds who were learning body parts, working on following directions, and building fine motor skills. To address all three of these goals, I created an activity in which the students were to match popsicle sticks and pipe cleaners to their corresponding colored hole in a paper plate (following directions), threading the popsicle sticks and pipe cleaners through the holes and taping them in place (fine motor skills), and drawing their faces on the plates (body parts). While implementing the activity, the students and I decided to trace our hands to add to the plates for building more fine motor skills and learning more body parts. Below are a digital recreation of my example and two student products.