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Question No 2: What Is Stereognestic Sense and How We Can Develop It?

The document discusses stereognostic sense, which is the ability to perceive objects through touch. It can be developed through exercises using materials like mystery bags, sorting trays, puzzle maps, and a sandpaper globe. These exercises involve children using their sense of touch to identify different objects and textures without sight. Developing stereognostic sense allows children to form mental pictures of objects and discriminate their size and shape through touch and movement. The document provides detailed descriptions of exercises to enhance this sense, such as putting various items in a bag for children to identify by feel alone and sorting different grains and seeds by touch.

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Question No 2: What Is Stereognestic Sense and How We Can Develop It?

The document discusses stereognostic sense, which is the ability to perceive objects through touch. It can be developed through exercises using materials like mystery bags, sorting trays, puzzle maps, and a sandpaper globe. These exercises involve children using their sense of touch to identify different objects and textures without sight. Developing stereognostic sense allows children to form mental pictures of objects and discriminate their size and shape through touch and movement. The document provides detailed descriptions of exercises to enhance this sense, such as putting various items in a bag for children to identify by feel alone and sorting different grains and seeds by touch.

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Question no 2 :
What is stereognestic sense and how we can develop it?

Stereognostic sense is the ability to perceive and


understand the form and nature of objects by the sense of
touch.
Stereognostic Sense: The stereognostic sense exercises
enable the child to develop concepts by feeling objects
and making recognition based on the feeling. The
exercises include also movement of the hand and arm
around the object, creating an impression of movement as
added to the sense of touch, resulting in what is known as
muscular memory. This is the knowledge derived from
the recognition of the movements made. The Montessori
materials and exercises used in the stereognostic sense are
Geometric solids, Mystery bags, Sorting Trays, Puzzle
maps, and Sandpaper Globe.
How to develop Stereognostic Sense: The development
of the Stereognostic sense is an important part of the
child’s work in the sensorial area. Just as important as any
of the other of senses, the stereognostic sense allows the
child to discriminate size and shape through the use of
touch. The use of this sense allows the child to have a
mental picture through the use of touch and movement.
Once the child knows how to feel the object in the hand
and is familiar with it, the objects are then used with the
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blindfold. In addition to using our sense of touch to


determine texture and weight, our sense of touch can also
provide information about size and shape.
Exercises for Stereognostic Sense: Below are few
exercises that can be used to enhance this sense. The
directress needs to do all these exercise in front of the
child herself. The stereognostic activities are first done
with eyes open and then by using blindfold. But try not to
force children to use blindfold. By doing very simple but
interesting exercises we can start developing strong
stereognostic sense.
Mystery Bags:
  A bag that has a drawstring to hide the contents.
  Fill that bag with amazing contents such as tiny pebbles,
glass marbles, soft feathers, wooden blocks, ribbon,
spoons, key, small cars, etc. and anything else you find
interesting.
  Child look all these objects, feel them by touching via
hands. Introduce names of each item.
  Then closes his eyes or used blindfold, put his hand in the
bag feel the object and named it and then takes it out from
the bag.
  Then open his eyes and sees what it is.
Sorting Trays:
  A tray having four or more saucers.
  Each saucer contains different kind of grains, seeds,
beans, peas, rice, lentils etc. separately.
  Another tray of same quantity of saucer but empty.
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  Child first checks all these things by their hands and feels
them. And then put each item in the second tray’s saucer
separately. Introduce names of each item.
  Then child closes his eyes or used blindfold, again feel
the items, named it, and then put it into the second tray.
  Then open his eyes and sees how perfectly he done.
  It can also be done by changing this exercise as by
mixing all these items in one bowl and child needs to
separate them in different saucers.
Puzzle Maps:
  A puzzle map of Pakistan and a Globe.
  Let’s take the puzzle map of Pakistan, where puzzles are
divided in provinces.
  Show the child a globe and the complete map of Pakistan.
Show the child where is Pakistan in the Globe. After that
put that globe aside.
  Focus on puzzle.
  Child point out the outline of each province and named
the province.
  Slowly and carefully put all pieces of puzzles one by one
back into the puzzle.
Sandpaper Globe:
  A world Globe with land areas covered with sandpaper
and water are with blue paint.
  Child holds the globe and calls its name.
  Child point to the sandpaper area and says “This is land”,
the point to blue area and say “This is water”.
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  Feel another area on the globe and repeat where land is


and where water is.

These are great group and individual exercises that


children can play anywhere.

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