WhyWhy Use Foldables?Use Foldables?
Susan Dickson, CoordinatorSusan Dickson, Coordinator
Teacher Support Center/RCOETeacher Support Center/RCOE
Student-Oriented Learning Environment Create “Habits of Learning”
Alternative Assessment and Study Tools Implement brain-based research and
visual-kinesthetic learning.
Student Projects and Reports Help students make connections
Engaging, Creative, and Organized
RationaleRationale
Using Foldables in Using Foldables in ScienceScience
• Organize, display, and arrange data.
• Compile student-made study guides.
• Replace teacher-made worksheets with student-generated print.
• Integrate language arts, social sciences, and mathematics into the study of science.
• Provide a sense of student ownership in the science curriculum.
5 Platonic Solids5 Platonic Solids• There are five so named because they
were known at the time of Plato (circa 427-347 BC).
• These polyhedra are also called regular polyhedra because they are made up of faces that are all the same regular polygon.
• "Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.“ -Plato Quoted in
Des MacHale, Wisdom (London, 2002).
ResourcesResources
Dinah Zike. Dinah Zike’s Big Book of Science for
Middle School and High School.Dinah-Might Aventures, LP. San
Antonio, TX, 2001.
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