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Grafica Obscura: A Paper Folding Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Step-by-step pictorial and written instructions for creating a unique paper sculpture. Suitable for intermediate and advanced paper folders.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Exploring Paper

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Canon 3 D Paper Craft Buildings: Eiffel Tower

For Students 9th - 10th
Intricately detailed paper-folding activity that provides templates and instructions for building a three-dimensional paper model of the Eiffel Tower. Instructions require download.
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Other

Canon 3 D Paper Craft Buildings: Parthenon

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a detailed paper-folding activity that provides templates and instructions for building a three-dimensional paper model of the Parthenon. Instructions require download.
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Other

Canon 3 D Paper Craft Buildings: Windmill

For Students 9th - 10th
Intricately detailed paper-folding activity that provides templates and instructions for building a three-dimensional paper model of a windmill. Instructions require download.
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Other

Canon 3 D Paper Craft Buildings: Leaning Tower of Pisa

For Students 9th - 10th
Intricately detailed paper-folding activity that provides templates and instructions for building a three-dimensional paper model of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Instructions require download.
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Canon 3 D Paper Craft Buildings: Great Sphinx at Giza

For Students 9th - 10th
Intricately detailed paper-folding activity that provides templates and instructions for building a three-dimensional paper model of the Great Sphinx. Instructions require download.
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Canon 3 D Paper Craft Buildings: Sydney Opera House

For Students 9th - 10th
Intricately detailed paper-folding activity that provides templates and instructions for building a three-dimensional paper model of the Sydney Opera House. Instructions require download.
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Other

Canon 3 D Paper Craft Buildings: Taj Mahal

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a detailed paper-folding activity that provides templates and instructions for building a three-dimensional paper model of the Taj Mahal. Instructions require download.
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Canon 3 D Paper Craft Buildings: Statue of Liberty

For Students 3rd - 8th
Intricately detailed paper-folding activity that provides templates and instructions for building a three-dimensional paper model of the Statue of Liberty. Instructions require download.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Folding Way New Origami

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore origami and the use of mathematical patterns to create patterns and folds. Watch a video, answer questions and learn more.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Folding Paper Can Get You to the Moon

For Students 9th - 10th
Animated lesson by Adrian Paenza shows what unbelievable things can happen when folding just one piece of paper. [3:49]
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Up to Ten: Make a Fleet of Paper Airplanes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
"With just a few sheets of paper and colored pencils (or pens), you can make a whole fleet of paper airplanes from these plans."
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Exto: Ingrid Siliakus Paper Architect/artist

For Students 9th - 10th
You have to see her work to believe it! Ingrid Siliakus creates 3D monumental buildings and structures from one single sheet of paper. Her work is like one gigantic pop-up picture.
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Veterans Affairs Canada

Veterans Affairs Canada: Folding Origami Peace Cranes

For Students 3rd - 8th
Instructions for making paper peace cranes and directions on how to share the story of the peace crane.
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Center for Game Science: Fold It

For Students 9th - 10th
A game where students put amino acids together to form a protein. Students will also try to predict how that protein will fold. Since the function of a protein depends a lot on the structure, this game can help students understand the...
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wikiHow

Wiki How: How to Make a 3 D Paper Snowflake

For Students 9th - 10th
Step-by-step illustrated directions on how to make a stunning 3D paper star-shaped snowflake.
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Canon 3 D Paper Craft Buildings: Colosseum

For Students 9th - 10th
Intricately detailed paper-folding activity that provides templates and instructions for building a three-dimensional paper model of the Colosseum. Instructions require download.
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Other

Canon 3 D Paper Craft Buildings: Great Pyramid of Khufu

For Students 9th - 10th
Intricately detailed paper-folding activity that provides templates and instructions for building a three-dimensional paper model of the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza. Instructions require download.
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Other

Paper Mosaics

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Protein Folding Exploring

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how peptides fold into stable conformations.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Lydia E. Kavraki: Protein Folding

For Students 9th - 10th
This module introduces students to the problem of Protein Folding, its importance, and current computational methods used to attack its complexity.
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Protein Folding

For Students 9th - 10th
Generate all polar, all nonpolar, or random proteins and observe how the protein folds in response to these molecular properties. Explore how the potential energy of the system changes over time to draw conclusions about how proteins...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Folding Strips of Paper

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
The purpose of this task is to provide students with a concrete experience they can relate to fraction multiplication. Perhaps more importantly, the task also purposefully relates length and locations of points on a number line, a common...

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