The Effectiveness of Using Interactive Educational Method in Teaching the Periodic Table in Science for Some Visually Impaired Students in the Eighth Grade in Sana'a, Yemen

Abstract

This study aims to identifying the effectiveness of using interactive educational method in teaching the Periodic Table in science for some visually impaired students in the eighth grade in Sana'a, Yemen.

From this general objective, some sub-objectives are extracted, which are:

• Identifying the students' ability to distinguish the shape of the modern periodic table, as well as identifying its basic components and their arrangement. Moreover, it aims to identifying the difference in the achievement level of students in studying the periodic table using regular educational methods and electronic interactive educational methods.

 The study uses the descriptive analytical approach, and it is applied to 20 visually impaired students, 10 of them are control sample, and the other 10 are pilot sample.

According to the methodology of the study, pre-test and post-test are used in order to measure the interactive level with the educational method (Interactive Periodic Table for the Visually Impaired Students).

     The study makes several recommendations, the most important of which are:

• There are statistically significant differences at (0.05) between the average scores of the study group in the pre- and post tests with regard to distinguishing the shape of the modern periodic table, as well as identifying its basic components and their arrangement.