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Activity Village: Valentine's Day
Find great activities for Valentine's Day like coloring pages, printables for cards, crafts, origami, puzzles, recipes, games, and jigsaws.
Curated OER
How to Make an Origami Jumping Frog
Follow along by reading the steps and looking at the pictures. Soon you will have a frog to jump across your desk.
Curated OER
How to Make an Origami Jumping Frog
Follow along by reading the steps and looking at the pictures. Soon you will have a frog to jump across your desk.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Exploring Paper
Learn how new materials, new methods and new ideas are transforming traditional origami. Watch videos of a master origami folder create his unique pieces. Learn how to make your own paper and how to fold your own paper airplanes.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Paper Airplanes
At this site students will use origami to fold a paper airplane that fly better than the classic dart airplane.
Education Development Center
Think Math: Getting an Angle on Geometry [Pdf]
In this lesson on geometry and polygons, you use origami to use various polygons to make a heart. Included in this PDF lesson is vocabulary worksheet with answers provided.
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Yahoo Kids Japan: Paper Craft
Japanese content! Contains downloadable PDF files with instructions for various paper craft (origami) projects.
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Yamaha: Papercrafts
Downloadable PDF papercraft (origami) patterns for motorcycles, animals, and seasonal Japanese materials. Patterns include sophisticated designs that will definitely require skill to complete.
Fundación Cientec
Cientec: Un Cuadrado Y Sus Transformaciones
This activity shows how to create an Origami by folding paper. Students will be able to create exciting and beautiful two-and-three-dimensional figures.
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: A Thousand Paper Cranes
This historical fiction lesson plan is for young scholars reading Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr, in which they can discuss the tragedy of Hiroshima and its impact as well as other themes.
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Paper Mosaics
A unique combination of origami paper folding and mathematical tessellations create these stunning works of art. Definitely not for the beginning paper folder to try! Site includes printable patterns.
wikiHow
Wiki How: How to Fold a Paper Rose
Follow the written instructions and the pictures to create a beautiful origami rose.
Curated OER
How to Fold a Paper Rose
Follow the written instructions and the pictures to create a beautiful origami rose.
Curated OER
How to Fold a Paper Rose
Follow the written instructions and the pictures to create a beautiful origami rose.
Other
National Fire Protection Agency: Sparky the Fire Dog: Sparky: Activities
Students will be engaged as they work with their families, at home, to complete a home safety check list and prepare an escape plan in case of a fire emergency. For added fun the children may make an origami dog. This is an excellent...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Increasing Productivity
This lesson stimulates students' thinking with stories about rigorous athlete training illustrating the importance of training and practice. After students read the story, they will experiment to see how instruction and practice improves...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Srt Folding a Square Into Thirds
The goal of this task is to apply knowledge about similar triangles in order to understand an origami construction: trisection of the side of a square. Aligns with G-SRT.B.5.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ee Folding a Square Into Thirds
This exercise begins with students folding a square piece of paper according to directions and aligning it on a coordinate grid. They then must find and solve a pair of linear equations which can be used to understand how to fold a piece...
PBS
Pbs: A World of Stories: The Hiroshima Children's Peace Memorial
Megan Hicks incorporates origami with storytelling to tell the true story behind the Children's Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan.
PBS
Pbs: A World of Stories: The Tailor
Megan Hicks uses origami and storytelling to celebrate the ingenuity of a grandmother who reuses a piece of fabric in a number of beautiful ways.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for Eleanor Coerr's book, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, a biography about Sadako Sasaki, is provided on these pages. Speaking parts for all students in a classroom are available in this activity.
OURA
1000 Cranes of Hope: A Monument to Those Touched by Cancer
Join a community united against cancer by adding an expression of empathy, support or remembrance to an interactive monument dedicated to those touched by cancer.
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The Toymaker
Dozens of beautiful paperfolding toys for you and your students to try. Just print, cut, fold, and glue. Many would work well with class themes including animals, flowers, and holidays.
Curated OER
Origami Cube
Drawings and discussion on the properties of the cube, with lots of links to related pages. With this page you can find how to make a cube out of tetrahedron.
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