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- 5th - 6th
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Students examine the infamous story of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes and then write a reflective poem about the story. Depending on the poetry forms you have taught, you can have students write haikus, acrostic poems or free verse. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students create origami sculptures, then describe the origami sculpture using the appropriate vocabulary. students then explain the sequence followed in its development. They solve related math problems. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore easy techniques for creating folded shapes with Christmas-colored fabrics to make quilts, stockings, table runners, placemats, pillows, or count-down calendars Full Review »
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- 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
- 9th - 12th
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Students discuss the concept of productivity and participate in an activity in which they test their own productivity in making Origami cups. Teams determine how to improve productivity and then discuss factors that influence productivity and quality. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students examine water shortage and the process of changing salt water to fresh water. They examine a world map, define key vocabulary terms, conduct experiments involving seeds and salt water and creating distilled water, and illustrate the steps of desalinization. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 6th
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Students choose an animal to represent and research to find basic information about this animal. Students select materials that help convey their thoughts and feelings about the animal they have chosen. Students identify and explore various origami techniques. Students identify haiku poetry and write their own poem that relates to the animal they create. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students read and follow multi-step directions to complete a simple task. They present the Mystery Board Games they created. Students present the games and then classmates play each game, following the written directions. They discuss the directions they read and how easy or hard they were to follow. Students offer suggestions on how to improve the directions and what they liked about the games. Full Review »
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- 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 »
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- 3rd - 6th
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Students explore various aspects of Japan and Japanese culture. Through reading, research and creative projects, each student will discover and elaborate on the similarities and differences between Japanese culture and their own culture. Full Review »

