Special Needs

• Symmetrical African Mask - Physical Disability: When cutting the construction paper students may use modified scissors to make the process easier; Giftedness: If students finished up their first mask, they may start on another one, using different colored paper and cutting different shapes out.

• African Family Portrait - Physical Disability: Instead of using the white glue bottles students may use glue sticks instead to help control the amount of glue used in the collage; Giftedness: Have students color their family portraits when they are done arranging the different pieces. 

• Maasai Color-Wheel Necklace - Cognitive Disability: For example, you might have a child with ADHD and to assist them you might sit with the child throughout the activity and guide them through all the steps, giving them frequent feedback; Giftedness: Students may elaborate on their necklaces and maybe even add some beads to the yarn part of the necklace when finished.

• Kente Cloth - Physical Disability: For a child who has an orthopedic impairment you could place the paper on a vertical surface at the child's shoulder level. This helps keep their neck and head in an upright position so that they can visually monitor what they are drawing; Giftedness: Students may create another Kente Cloth using different colors of tempera paint and different shapes and lines.

• Africa Savanna Watercolor - Physical Disability: For some students it might be easier to have them use only crayons or makers instead of the watercolor paint. Markers and crayons reduce the amount of visual shifting; Giftedness: Allow students to draw more than 3 animals, and have them include more landscapes to their Savanna. 

• African Coil Pot - Physical Disability: Guide and assist students with the rolling of the clay and putting it all together, give easy to follow instructions; Giftedness: Let students use more than one package of clay to create a bigger coil pot or to create multiple coil pots.