Senses play a very important role in our past experience and understanding of the world. In the process of human cognitive development, children before the age of 6 mainly rely on sensory learning. If you can't see, hear, smell or touch, it will be difficult for people to learn the characteristics of various substances in the world and the field of knowledge will be limited.
Children use sensory organs to operate various sensory teaching AIDS, explore in the environment, gain unique personal experience and cognition, sort all information in their brains, thus adapting to the environment and eventually becoming participants in the environment. All sensory teaching AIDS are independent of one feature, which can make children focus more on one sense and make the sense more exquisite.
Features of sensory teaching AIDS:
Isolation: the purpose of each teaching aid is single, identifying the length, shape, or color, and focusing on a certain point.
Error control: the teaching aid itself contains the characteristics of self-correction, and children can learn by themselves.
Attraction: The teaching aid itself has a beautiful appearance, such as color and shape, which attracts children's attention.
The design of teaching AIDS is orderly: from short to long, from small to large, from fine to coarse, from smooth to rough, from shallow to deep, etc.
Teaching AIDS are simple to complex, with distinct levels, which helps to cultivate children's self-confidence and independence.