Education and demonstration – Miscellaneous
Patent
1990-06-01
1991-12-10
Apley, Richard J.
Education and demonstration
Miscellaneous
273450, 446268, G09B 1900
Patent
active
050713558
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention pertains to a demonstration device. Such devices have, on the one hand a game purpose; they should stimulate the players to handle them and they should be gladly grasped and used. On the other hand, they should also, however, convey a message, especially a teaching subject. This results from the special shape of the demonstration device and can be varied within a certain range of various teaching subjects which, however, have similar objectives.
When the demonstration device is played with, the teaching subject should be distinguished as clearly as possible without however, being the primary goal. The game should be useful for being able to represent the teaching subject and thus the message in another manner and possibly more comprehensibly than is possible by an oral explanation, a written description or a drawing, all of which concern the same teaching subject. When the teacher uses the demonstration device he can make the messages connected with this device more understandable to the learner. In this case, the demonstration device lying in the hand of the teacher facilitates the lecture; the game compels the speakers to address the individual parts or individual elements of the demonstration device so that the subject to be conveyed comes into discussion., to that extent the demonstration device also functions as a lecture plan. When the learner uses the demonstration device, he can comprehend the message physically, by means of which the learning effect is reinforced. In this respect, a demonstration device of the type mentioned above makes use of the experience that an exclusively oral presentation of the teaching subject, a visual presentation of the teaching subject or a combination of oral and visual presentation of knowledge have a lower probability of being permanently absorbed by the learner than a message provided in a game which is physically held with the hands, that is, haptic learning.
Thus, the task of the invention was to offer a demonstration device, with which gradually better protection of a human figure against tilting, that is by an increasingly improved support, can be represented. Such a demonstration device is suitable, for example, for explaining the protection of a person by gradually improved insurance protection; the device is suitable for explaining the gradually improved stability of a person against attacks which could make it tilt. In addition to the insurance protection mentioned above, the professional insurance of a person to be gradually improved can thus be explained, that is, how this person can obtain it by profession-promoting measures, for example, training, and it can represent quite generally the development of a person towards a maturing process or the like.
The task is solved by a demonstration device, which is characterized by a human figure which has a head area and a foot area, which has a foot surface that is convex or pointed downwards, and by a block, the height of which is adapted to the height of the foot area, which is comprised of at least two and preferably three layers that can be stacked one above the other and which has a recess opening upwards for mounting the foot area, which recess is formed by an opening in each layer, whereby the opening of the first layer has such an excess (free space) on all sides opposite the lower part of the foot area contained by it, which part alone holds the first layer, the foot area and thus the figure only unstably, and in the case of vibration, e.g., in the case of a slight push against the figure cannot hold against tilting, and the opening of the other layer is adapted in a mold-like manner to the part of the foot area corresponding to it such that the foot area contained by the openings of the layers stacked one above the other cannot be tilted in an angular range greater than .+-.10.degree. from the vertical lines, and in that each layer is comprised of at least two components, which have, in each case, an undercut-free groove on one side, and these grooves form the opening when the components
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Bergfelder Manfred
Schmitz Karl-Werner
Apley Richard J.
Healey Rachel M.
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