Blog for week 1/29 - Danielle Tisdale

For this blog post I wanted to reflect on an interaction I had a little while ago. I was running the rotational motion program cart when we had a special ed group come in to visit. I had been showing some smaller kids how when the tire is spinning it is a lot harder to move it, when a young boy in a wheelchair and his aide came up to me. His aide asked me what we were doing here, so I modified the program cart for him the way I have for the kids who are to small to hold the wheel on their own. I held one side of the tire and had him hold the other handle and asked him to notice that he could move it normally. Then I spun the tire and asked him to move the wheel around again and see what he noticed. He didn't say anything, but his face lit up and he was very excited about the experiment. I was really glad that I was able to modify the cart for him even though at first glance it looked like something he'd only get to watch. Although he couldn't participate in all of the program cart, he still got to engage in it and I'm grateful that I was able to have that experience.