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The companion CD-ROM to Cathy Weisman Topal's book Thinking with a Line. This disc provides video and audio clips to help teachers make better of the materials. Thinking with a Line is a perfect Occupation activity for Froebel's Gift 8 sticks. Children delight in discovering what they can create with straight lines. Forms of Beauty (patterns, designs), Forms of Life (symbols, pictograms), and Forms of Knowledge (letters, numerals) are created by printing with small cardboard rectangles dipped in ink. This innovative printmaking approach provides an effective, developmentally appropriate activities for increasing visual learning, motor skills, language development, and critical thinking. A powerful new tool for exploring the basic element of line. |
