BY: N.

KESAVA RAJ

Perception is the process by which an organism attains awareness or understanding of its environment by organizing and interpreting sensory information. All perception involves signals in the nervous system, which in turn result from physical stimulation of the sense organs. For example, vision involves light striking the retinas of the eyes.

Visual perception is training in seeing and interpreting visual stimuli. Efficient visual functioning normally takes some time to develop, hence the use of oversized and brightly colored visual materials in primary level classrooms. Although the majority of children successfully develop the ability to focus visually and to make fine discriminations in visual materials during the primary years, some will be well into the intermediate grades before these skills are adequately developed for visual learning tasks.

visual perception is a student's ability to comprehend what he/she sees, and cognitively process information regarding what she views. Teachers can allow students to practice their visual perception skills, and assess their visual perception ability by engaging them in descriptive writing activities. These activities force students to contemplate objects that they view, and create a description and derive meaning from them.

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Favorite Toy Description Ask students to pay a bit more attention to their favorite toy, and complete this writing activity. Several days before starting the activity, ask them each to bring their favorite toy to class with them. When students arrive in class, allow them some time to share their toy with their classmates, explaining why they enjoy it so much. After they do this, ask them to have a seat, and keep their toy with them. Provide each student with a piece of paper, and ask them to write as detailed a description as possible of the toy. As they complete their descriptions, walk around the room, and take digital photos of each toy.

Number the photos, and display them on the classroom bulletin board. Label the descriptions with letters, and place them in an area near the toy photos. Allow students to attempt to match each toy picture with the appropriate description. Reward the student who correctly matches the most pairs.

2) Play Story. Test students' abilities to understand liveaction performances through the completion of this visual-perception activity. To prepare, provide two student volunteers with a short script for a one-act play. Practice the scene with the them, to allow them to perfect their performances.

When class begins, ask your volunteers to put on their performance. Tell the other students to pay close attention, as they will be writing a description of the play after they have viewed it. Once the students complete their skit, ask the other students to write what they saw in story form, being as descriptive as possible.

3) Emotions Predictions. Students practice collecting information from a photo in this visual-perception activity. To prepare for this activity, gather face photos that include all kind of face reactions images. Such as sad, happy, angry, sick and ect. Teacher have to ask the student what kind of face reaction is shown in the picture. Students have to write the emotions that been show in their worksheet.