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Why Why Use Foldables? Use Foldables? Susan Dickson, Coordinator Susan Dickson, Coordinator Teacher Support Center/RCOE Teacher Support Center/RCOE

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Why Use Foldables?. Susan Dickson, Coordinator Teacher Support Center/RCOE. Rationale. Student-Oriented Learning Environment Create “Habits of Learning” Alternative Assessment and Study Tools Implement brain-based research and visual-kinesthetic learning. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Why Use Foldables?

WhyWhy Use Foldables?Use Foldables?

Susan Dickson, CoordinatorSusan Dickson, Coordinator

Teacher Support Center/RCOETeacher Support Center/RCOE

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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

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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.

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Tri-Fold, Venn, and 4-Tri-Fold, Venn, and 4-FoldFold

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MatchbookMatchbook

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PyramidPyramid

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Layered BookLayered Book

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Circle GraphCircle Graph

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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).

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IcosahedronsIcosahedrons

AIDS VIRUSAIDS VIRUS

Use small stapler!

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Folded BookFolded Book

RESOURCE: Dinah Zike from www.dinah.com

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ResourcesResources

Dinah Zike. Dinah Zike’s Big Book of Science for

Middle School and High School.Dinah-Might Aventures, LP. San

Antonio, TX, 2001.

Google “foldables” and look at all your choices!

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Please clean-up your area…

• Return unused paper to the front table.

• Return all supplies to their bins.

Thank you!!