Seeing through a Hole

Seeing through a Hole

You will need: Newspaper, scissors, cellophane tape,

It is possible to trick your eyes. But₅ did you ever realize that it was possible to see through a hole in your hand?

Take a square of newspaper with sides some 9 inches long and roll it into a tube, one inch in diameter. Tape the free end of the paper to the side of the tube.

Take the tube in your right hand and hold it to your right eye so that you can see through it quite clearly.

Now raise your left hand, palm facing you, until it is in front of your left eye with your little finger touching the side of the tube. Open both eyes and look straight ahead. Can you see the hole in your hand?

Children learn best through doing

Before children can understand a thing, they need experience: seeing, touching, hearing, tasting, smelling; choosing, arranging, putting things together, taking things apart. Experimenting with real things.

Old-time school teaching used only words and the teachers thought children knew something if they could repeat it. Now we know better. To reach practical understanding we do not need to use many words with young children.

Children are clever. They learn a lot, without being taught. The greatest skill - to be able to talk, to communicate is learnt outside school. In the classroom it's the children who need to talk the most. Unfortunately it is the teacher who does most of the talking!