Add@Me Learning Methods (EN)


Title: Guess what?
Summary:

This exercise should be played in a team of 2: one sighted person and the other with visual impairment. There should be a minimum of 3 teams and it will be played as a competition.

On a table you will have to lay down 3 pots. In the first pot there will be something that you can smell (for example mint, or fruits, or flowers etc). In the second pot there will be something that you can touch (anything except liquids). In the third pot something that you can taste (food).

The idea of the game is that the person who has visual impairment has to guess as fast as possible the things that are in the pots. If they cannot make it the other person from the team that can see what is in the pot can give them instruction in order for them to guess, but they are not allowed to describe the object in detail but only provide pointers. The team who guesses first is the winning team. You can organize the game with several rounds increasing the level of difficulty. Try to be as creative as possible in choosing the things to put in the pots.

Objectives:

Building empathy towards blindness; show how people who are visually impaired use their other senses to identify things around them.

Materials / Equipment needed:

Pots and things to put inside them.


Group size: 2 persons in a team
Duration: 5 minutes or depending on how many rounds you want to play
Step-by-step instructions: N/A
Reflection and evaluation questions:

How was it for you?

Possible risk factors:

Check with participants before if everyone has an intact smelling sense

Variations:

N/A

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