How Do You Use Cut Outs As Instructional Materials?
Whether they are tabletop versions or life-size, created from your mind and the minds of your students or borrowed from image farms, cutouts add the missing dimension to any lesson, demonstration or project. They are appropriate for any grade level and are particularly useful when introducing concepts to visual learners or learners with hearing differences. The willingness and ability to create your own instructional materials is essential. Shrinking budgets and rapid changes in available data make many information sources obsolete before they leave the publisher’s warehouse. Engage students in the process of creating cutouts for the classroom from the very beginning by holding a brainstorming session. People remember 90 percent of what they do and only 10 percent of what they read, confirmed a 1997 study performed by Thomas Metcalf, former researcher at the University of Texas. Students must examine the material, correlate it with their existing knowledge and draw forth the most impor
