Tactile Skills Matrix: Transition from 3D to 2D
The following APH products facilitate students’ transition from 3D objects/models to 2D tactile displays. Note: Products without a hyperlink to APH’s shopping site have been obsoleted, but original copies might still be available to some teachers for continued use with their students.
- Analog Clock Model with Clock Face Sheets in Braille
- Animal Recipes: Farm Set
- Azer’s Interactive Periodic Table Study Set (Nemeth) with Periodic Table of the Elements Reference Chart and Booklet in Braille
- DNA-RNA Kit
- Geometric Forms
- Geometro: Student Workbook Kit
- Giant Textured Beads with Pattern Matching Cards
- Globe: Tactile and Visual with World at Your Fingers
- Number Line Device with Consumable Number Lines: Braille/Tactile Set
- On the Way to Literacy storybook, Jennifer’s Messes
- On the Way to Literacy storybook, Roly-Poly Man
- On the Way to Literacy storybook, Jellybean Jungle
- Room with a View: Map-Reading Concepts and Skills (future APH product)
- Setting the Stage for Tactile Understanding
- StackUps: Spatial Reasoning Using Cubes and Isometric Drawings
- Tactile Protractor with embossed paper templates of protractors included in the Braille Transcriber’s Kit: Math
- Tactile Tangrams
- Tactile Town: 3-D O&M Kit with O&M Tactile Graphics or Picture Maker: Wheatley Tactile Diagramming Kit
- Textured Sorting Circles and Shapes with Venn Diagram Template Kit
- Touch, Label, and Learn Poster: Human Skeleton (Anterior View)
Do you have other recommendations for products that facilitate students’ transition from 3D objects/models to 2D tactile displays? Share your ideas with Karen J. Poppe, Braille and Tactile Literacy Product Manager, at kpoppe@aph.org as she continues to update this Tactile Skills Matrix.