Noah's Ark Tactile Picture Book

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Noah's Ark as transcribed into 8 tactile pictures, including a key. Available Models: Frame-Only Binder Holes on Top Binder Holes on Left Available Versions: Key Page 1: Building the Ark Page 2: Gathering Food Page 3: Animals Came in Pairs Page 4: It Began to Rain and Flood Page 5: Ark on a Mountain Page 6: Dove with an Olive Leaf Page 7: Rainbow Over Ark Visually impaired children building understanding of their world learn through guided tactile stimulation. Various means include tactile pictures that help construct meaningful experiences. The lack of easily reproducible and customizable tactile pictures in visually impaired community poses an educational challenge. Teachers use labor-intensive, time-consuming methods to create tactile experiences for students. These designs take advantage of 3D printing technology to create printable and customizable tactile pictures. Modify and customize as needed! How I Designed This: Overview All models designed on CraftML, an XML-style markup language supporting Braille text. Tactile Picture Book Project Further information regarding effort to transcribe picture books into accessible tactile format. Designing Noah's Ark in 3D Blog post detailing my in-depth design process on 3DA11y. Updates: Changes as of November 27th, 2015 Updated pages now feature rounded frames, longer captions and more space between items on page. Specific changes made include: Page 4 wave texture now faces reader instead of side view, page six filled-in hole and rainbow no longer stretched out.