Our friends at SAS have set the bar for fully accessible STEM materials.<br><br><br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div>
<p class="MsoNormal">We released this book last fall, but I don’t think I ever sent an fyi to this group. We used every trick in the book (so to speak) to make the images in the book accessible to all students. The strategies include read aloud, sonification,
 audio-embossing, tactile overlays, and 3d models. These strategies were employed on a scatter plot, line chart, bar chart, images from the Hubble Space Telescope, and many other conceptual illustrations.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Check out the three minute promo video here:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uJVX4i1haU&list=PLVBcK_IpFVi9kCxPXz4dd1HO5x_yLLEHJ&index=7" target="_blank">Reach for the Stars: Touch, Look, Listen, Learn</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Other resources:<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/reach-for-stars-touch-look/id763516126?mt=11?" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Direct link to the free book in
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Apple’s iBooks<sup>®</sup> Store</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/SASInstituteInc/designs" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">3d models of the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes that can be printed it on a 3d printer</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span></span><u></u><a href="https://www.sascurriculumpathways.com/astronomy" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">T</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">eacher
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</span></span></span><u></u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AheMP0oS2A&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tutorial video for Teachers of the Visually Impaired</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ed Summers<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Senior Manager, Accessibility and Applied Assistive Technology<u></u><u></u></p>
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