We commissioned Sheffield-based designers Fold Up Toys to produce a papercraft mascot that you can download, print onto card, cut out and assemble. Hopefully it will look like this when you’ve finished it…
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About Our Resources
All our resources have been developed by the team and relate directly to our exhibition and the themes and ideas it introduces. We hope you find them useful in your teaching and learning, whether in a classroom environment or just for fun at home! Most resources are in PDF or PowerPoint format and can be easily downloaded by clicking the ‘Download’ button. Some activities have multiple resources, so you just need to click the text links in the description for these.
Resource List
VRP Teacher and Educator resources: Empathy
Two sets of teaching and learning materials have been created, based around the three short films made for the VRP project. These materials make stimulating, thought-provoking contexts that can be used to generate purposeful student discussion from which to explore aspects of difference and ethical issues.
The first of these is titled ‘Empathy’, and is suitable for citizenship and PHSE lessons. It explores interesting questions around personal preferences.
The resources consider how different people who are missing their lower arm feel about their own situation. The activity can go on to form the basis for further exploring how students themselves like to be treated by others and would make the basis for a good start-of-year activity. They have been tested at Key stage 3, 4 and 5.
The three videos, Charlotte’s Story, Liz’s Story and Jon-Allan’s Story are available on the Living with Limb Loss page.
The accompanying activities are available to download below:
Teacher Notes Empathy and Understanding Limb Loss
The materials have been developed with the support of the UTC2 Sheffield with thanks to the principal, Sarah Clarke; her teacher colleagues from across different curriculum areas, and most importantly input from over 100 students at UTC2 who have informed, tested and helped us to hone these activities.
VRP Teacher and Educator resources: Sporting Chance
The second of two sets of Teacher and Educator activities created for the project, ‘Sporting Chance’ supports students in developing their data-handling skills, through looking at and interpreting graphical and other data to help to make better-informed decisions.
The activity supports aspects of enquiry at KS3 and KS4 science and is based around the context of what is perceived as ‘fair’ when competing in sport.
The context for the activity is based around exploring 3 sources:
Jon-Allan’s Story, available on the Living with Limb Loss page
VRP Sporting Chance Activity 1 – Professor Steve Haake’s blog article on Marcus Rehm, a Paralympic athlete keen to compete with able-bodied athletes.
VRP Sporting Chance Activity 2 & VRP Sporting Chance Activity 3 – Performance data. This includes women’s world records for the marathon, and personal best data for imaginary athletes, and considers the implications posed by such data.
Sporting Chance Performance rating cards
The materials have been developed with the support of the UTC2 Sheffield with thanks to the principal, Sarah Clarke; her teacher colleagues from across different curriculum areas, and most importantly input from over 100 students at UTC2 who have informed, tested and helped us to hone these activities.
VR Prosthetics Activity Sheet 1: Design It!
Could you design your own prosthetic limb? What features would it have? Download the activity sheet and create your own ideas.
VR Prosthetics Activity Sheet 2: Make It!
Create your own moveable hand using paper plates, string and straws.
VR Prosthetics Activity Sheet 3: Solve It!
Think about some of the challenges you might have if you have only one arm. Download the activity sheet for some activities to try to do, such as tying laces and wrapping a present:
You can also download some wrapping paper to use in this exercise, featuring our mascot Pod!