THE Guide Dog for the Blind Association has produced an education pack aimed at helping primary schoolchildren develop an understanding of what visual impairment means and how it affects many people's daily lives.
Featuring Goldie the guide dog and guide dog puppy Minty, the Goldie and Minty Discovery pack provides imaginative and useful classroom resource material for teachers.
Filled with facts and fun things to do, the pack includes eight activity sheets covering three areas of the National Curriculum: English, science, mathematics and also personal and social education.
Things to do include making a pair of bubble glasses, trying to identify objects hidden inside a "feely bag" and devising a "spoken map" - all activities designed to give children an idea of what it's like when you can't see properly.
Minty and Goldie's Discovery Pack costs £6.95, and cheques should be made payable to GDBA - Trading Co Ltd and sent to The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, Hillfields, Burghfield Common, Reading, RG7 3YG.
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