Education and demonstration – Means for demonstrating apparatus – product – or surface... – Block or like manually manipulatable object having indicia...
Patent
1992-04-08
1994-10-04
Mancene, Gene
Education and demonstration
Means for demonstrating apparatus, product, or surface...
Block or like manually manipulatable object having indicia...
434107, G09B 2502
Patent
active
053521218
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a demonstration device. Devices of this type have, on the one hand, a play function; they are intended to stimulate the player to handle them, to enjoy touching and using them. On the other hand, they are also intended to communicate a message, particularly in the form of educational content. This results from the special design of the demonstration device, and can be varied within a certain range of educational messages having similar objectives.
The educational message communicated by play with the demonstration device should be as clear as possible; at the same time, however, it should not be the primary initial objective. Playing with the device should have the effect of communicating a grasp of the educational content and thus the message in other and possibly better ways than would be possible by means of a spoken explanation, a written description or a drawing dealing with the same educational content. When the teacher uses the demonstration device, he/she can communicate the associated messages to the learner better than would otherwise be possible. The demonstration device in the hands of the teacher facilitates the teacher's presentation; it compels the presenter to refer to the elements of the demonstration device, with the result that the content to be communicated is discussed; the demonstration device thus functions as a presentation plan. When the learner uses the demonstration device he/she can gain a physical grasp of the message, which reinforces the learning effect. A demonstration device of the type described at the outset thus makes use of the empirical observation that an exclusively spoken communication of educational content, communication using exclusively optical means or communication of knowledge using a combination of speech and optical means are less likely to result in lasting retention by the learner than learning which involves physical, bodily grasping of the content with the hands, the communication of a message through play, i.e. haptic learning.
On the basis of this, the problem of the invention was to describe a demonstration device in the form of a house with which the necessity of protection, in particular in the form of insurance policies, can be explained and vividly demonstrated to someone who wishes to build or purchase a house.
This problem is solved by means of a demonstration device in the form of a single-story house comprising a body, a roof and a base slab. The body is composed of a number of prism-shaped building blocks whose height is equivalent to the height of the storey. Each body building block has an oblong, narrow lower side or base; when placed side by side, the blocks form the essentially cuboid body with the area of the base of the house. The roof is a building block with sloping roof surfaces and a base surface whose area is at least as large as that of the base of the house. The base slab: (a) forms, in the normal state, a supporting surface for the body building blocks the area of which is at least as large as the base area of the body; (b) is composed in the normal state of at least two prism-shaped components which have sloping surfaces and which touch one another at contact surfaces; and (c) two components of the base slab can be moved away from one another, out of their normal state positions, having an effect on the supporting surface and causing the body - building blocks to fall over.
The building blocks forming the body, of which at least three and preferably five are provided, symbolize the preconditions which must be fulfilled for the construction or purchase of a house, such as a regular income, mortgages and/or loans from a building society, employer loans etc. The roof building block rests on the body building blocks, which form the essentially cuboid body of the house. The base slab consists of several components, specifically a minimum of two components. Like the body building blocks, the components of the base slab are prism-shaped. "Prism-shaped" is understood here to mean a body in the form of a strai
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Bergfelder Manfred
Schmitz Karl-Weiner
Mancene Gene
Smith Jeffrey A.
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