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- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 12th
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Students practice the ancient art of kirigami to create a stylized tree silhouette. They explore an ancient art and practice some basic paper folding and cutting techniques to create a stylized illustration of a tree. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 4th
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Students demonstrate their knowledge of shapes and ability to follow directions by creating a paper duck. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students become familiar with the story of Sadako, One Thousand Paper Cranes and why it is a symbol of peace for the people of Hiroshima. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students role-play workers producing origami cups. They participate in two production rounds, one without training and one with training. They observe how productivity increases through training and, as a result, how income increases. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students view examples of architecture from throughout history. They design and draw homes, pyramids, temples and castles incorporating such elements as arches, columns and domes. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students use geoboards, grid paper, tracing paper and origami to explore how geometry affects our everyday lives. They, in groups, create models, manipulate objects and define common geometrical terms. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students compare and contrast the wings of bats and birds. They observe pictures of birds and bats. They design the wings of a bat and a bird using origami techniques. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students read a story about a young Japanese boy and his mother who decide to not banish the community's elders to the hills. They create origami helmets. They work together to make posters appreciating senior citizens. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students demonstrate good listening and following directions skills. They discuss how to decode a word if they don't know a word, and read and follow the directions on a worksheet that instructs the students to read all the way through first, and to ignore the rest of the instructions as the last direction. They complete various origami projects as a follow-up to following directions. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students discover the importance of training and practicing by making origami dogs, one group with instructions and the other without them. They discover they could make the dogs faster by having instructions and by practicing. Students determine that the higher the productivity the greater the income. Full Review »

