Monday, March 30, 2009
I. Chromosome changes occur if either the male or female sex cell individually divides the wrong way, or the zygote itself divides abnormally after the sperm and egg have joined. II. Environmental changes are the result of one or both of the child's parents' exposure to something in the environment, such as: There are also external causes of physical disabilities that are a direct result of things that happen to people after they are born, such as:
Our research on targeted group
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Monday, March 23, 2009
*Physically Handicapped Children*
Extracted from http://cd.edb.gov.hk/la_03/chi/curr_guides/physically/ep-3.htm,http://www.unc.edu/~kscavone/physicaldisability.htm#disabilities
and http://specialed.about.com/od/physicaldisabilities/a/physical.htm
A physically handicapped person is defined as a person who has a disability of loco motor and neurological origin which constitutes a disadvantage or restriction in one or more aspects of daily living activities, including work. There may be variations in duration or severity among physical disabilities. In other words, the handicapping conditions may be temporary or permanent and mild or severe. Physically handicapped children may be multiply handicapped with mental handicap, visual or hearing impairment.
Times have changed,physically handicapped children now are able to receive education.
If there are physically handicapped children in school.
Physical handicapped student's self-image is extremely important.
Physically handicapped students are aware of the fact that they are physically different that most others and that there are certain things they cannot do. Peers can be cruel to other children with physical handicaps and become involved in teasing, casting insulting remarks and excluding physically handicapped children from games and group type activities.
They need to express their feelings.So our doodling wall came in.
OUR PLAYGROUND!
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Our Critique And Advocacy
Friday, March 20, 2009
Our Targetted group is disabled
children.
We feel that these playgrounds have points to comment and criticize.The first playground have railings which is good for disabled children as railings support them.But,the gaps between each railing is very small.Those who have hands and legs might get stuck in between the gaps. Likewise, the other two playgrounds also have this problems.The second playground have very few railings,and the height from the ground,could cause serious injury.Except for the second playground,the first and third playground does not have any shelther.This would make little children to sweat easily and those childrens who are handicapped would have problem wiping off their sweats and with those sweats it will cause the handicapped childrens to feel irritated.
Looking at the photographs of playgrounds we taken,none of them as bench or seating area nearby.This is quite illogical as there will be no seating area for the parents to sit on and to keep watch on their child and the childrens will not have a place to sit on when they feel tired of playing it (PS:I am not sure whether if there is no bench/seating area around the playground).
The design and facilities in the playgrounds are rather mediocre.The amount of facilities in the playground for the children to play with is inferior and the design of the playground is not attractive enough to attract little childrens' attention.To put it short,the overall designs are dull.
Next,we have to comment on the material used to built the support of the playground.Metal is used to make as a support and I think that is not a good choice.It is indeed true that metal is a strong material to support the playground but it will rust when time goes by and during hot season,the railings,that are also made of metal,will tend to get hot and childrens,especially handicapped childrens, who hold onto the railings will get themselves scalded and will lose grip and fall down.We can't imagine how acute the pain is going to be for a handicapped person to fall down.Even if there is shelther,we still have to take note of the heat of the metal railings for safety sakes.Normal children will tends to be very active too and they will run around the playground and it will be very painful if the childrens knocked on a metal bar or railings.
Our Advocacy
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OUR PLAYGROUND!
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Playground photos in Tampines
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Literature homework (appendix 1.7a)
Movie
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
1.Has some missing parts from the book.
2.There is no Miss Bessie in the movie.
3.In the movie, Leslie does not look like how the book has described her as.
4.Leslie called her father 'dad' instead of Bill.
5.Leslie walked over the seats in the bus.
6.Have a green house.
7.Leslie and Jess fought monsters in Terabithia.
8.Jess has super powers in his imagination which is not mentioned in his imagination in the novel.
9.Skipped parts from the book.
10.Gave dog not for celebrating Christmas.
11.Leslie read aloud her own composition.
Novel
1.There was no truck mentioned to be in their kingdom, unlike the movie.
2.There was no tree house mentioned to be built, unlike the movie.
3.There was no mention of Leslie's birthday, unlike the movie.
4.In the novel, it was a teacher whom actually almost caught them to be in the wrong classroom, not the janitor, unlike the movie.
5.In the novel, Jess' father rarely talk to him, unlike the movie.
6.Don't have a greenhouse.
7.They did not fight monsters.
8.Jess do not have any power.
9.Gave dog for celebrating Christmas.
10.Mrs Myers read Leslie composition.
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Question 1 Answer:
The overall mood in Chapter 9 is that it was an eventful , joyful day for Jess and Leslie, even though most of their happiness was being brought down by the weather that day. But thanks to Leslie, their hopes were not ruined.
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Question 2 Answer:
The overall mood for chapter 10 is heartwarming and happy.However , the last part of the chapter is afflictive.A very sad ending to close off the chapter.
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Question 3 Answer:
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ForeShadowing
The Evil Spell
The title enable foretells something bad is going to happen.
Further on, we then know that the spell was the rain.
The phrase
'horrible realization that it is still raining' in pg 107
shows that in the next chapter it will still be raining in the morning.
The Perfect Day
The title shows the word perfect.Nothing is really perfect.It is bound to have something bad happening in the middle or the end. That is why, when something is too good to be true,something disastrous will happen.
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