Overview
Qualities of Materials
Direct Aims
Isolation of Difficulty
Control of Error
100

The system that uses information taken in through the senses to produce responses that adapt the body and mind to that information

What is the nervous system?

100

Materials are beautiful and made from natural materials, such as wood, metal, and glass

What is aesthetics?

100

The aim of this material is to develop the stereognostic sense

What is the Mystery Bag?

100

The quality that the thermic tablets isolate

What is temperature?

100

The piece being even with the block when put inside the hole is a control of error of this material

What are the Knobbed Cylinders?

200

The two types of senses that respond to external and internal stimuli

What are far and near senses?

200

The dimensions of the material are exact, for example, the smallest pink cube is 1x1x1, the next is 2x2x2 and so on

What is precision crafting?

200

The aim of this material is to develop visual discrimination of three dimensional change

What is the Pink Tower?

200

The quality that the red rods isolate

What is length?

200

The matching of loudness and softness is a control of error of this material

What are the Sound Cylinders?

300

The sense that focuses on body position and movement in space, specifically feelings of balance and movement

What is the vestibular sense?

300

Materials are designed so that the characteristic that is the focus of the material is the only thing that changes

What is isolation of difficulty?

300

The aim of these materials is to develop the chromatic sense by matching

What is Color Box 1 and 2?
300

The quality that the baric tablets isolate

What is weight

300

The colors and sizes of the shapes on the lids of these materials serve as a control of error 

What are the Binomial and Trinomial Cube?

400

The body awareness sense that tells us where our body parts are without having to look for them

What is the proprioceptive sense?

400
Materials are designed so that the child can self correct their mistakes; can be mechanical or perceptual

What is control of error?

400

The direct aim of this material is to refine the olfactory sense

What are the Smelling Bottles?

400

The quality that the Geometric Solids isolate

What is three dimensional shape?

400

The inset fitting just right into the frame is a control of error of which material?

What is the Geometric Cabinet?

500

A neurobiological activity within our bodies in which the nervous system processes information from the senses and organizes stimuli

What is Sensory Integration?

500

Materials can be used in ways other than the initial presentation or combined with another material.

What are variations and extensions?

500

The direct aim of this material is to refine the gustatory sense

What are the Tasting Bottles?

500

The quality that the Blue Knobless Cylinders isolate

What is height?

500

The black lines are a control of error for which materials?

What are the Constructive Triangle boxes?
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