Visualizing

= Visualizing =

Launching Sequence: Visualization Tubes
Using a toilet paper tube, allow the students to explore your room and look at things in this new way. Ask them why things seem so much more interesting while looking through these spy glasses. Give them some specific things to look at. Ask them to think about where it belongs (ex. shell = ocean) and then think of the things that they could smell, hear, taste, feel, and see around it. Now they are visualizing this item's environment!



*Have students listen to an old radio show with a partner and talk about/draw images they come up with.
 * Have them listen to a read aloud while drawing pictures.
 * Soak cotton balls in familiar liquids and put them in plastic bags to pass around the room. Have students write down what they think of when they smell the aroma.
 * Pass around items in a brown lunch bag as mystery objects that students have to handle without looking at them and discuss with a partner what they "see".
 * Have students search magazines for pictures that support a certain topic or theme.
 * Ask students to create a time line using only pictures.
 * Have children listen to a picture book without looking at the illustrations. Then reread it with the pictures to see how their mental images change as they assimilate the pictures by the illustrator.
 * Have kids listen to a recording of everyday sounds and talk about what images they conjure up.
 * Show them a book of optical illusions and discuss how your brain sees in a different way than your eyes do.

Here are some songs that McGregor suggests to play for your students to have them visualize what is happening. Instrumentals
 * Old Friends/Bookends - Simon and Garfunkel
 * English Tea - Paul McCartney
 * The Marvelous Toy - Tom Paxton
 * Grandma's Feather Bed - John Denver
 * Fantasia soundtrack
 * Peter and the Wolf - Sergei Prokofiev
 * 1812 Overture - Pyotr Tchaikovsky
 * Nutcracker Suite - Pyotr Tchaikovsky

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Let your students explore these photos and others.

*What lies just beyond the frame of the photo?
 * What sounds would surround this moment in time?
 * How would the air feel? Dry? Humid? Still?
 * Can you smell anything in this photo?
 * What feelings rise up in you?