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Why Use Foldables?

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.

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Why Use Foldables?

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  1. WhyUse Foldables? Susan Dickson, Coordinator Teacher Support Center/RCOE

  2. Rationale • 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

  3. Using Foldables in Science • 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.

  4. Tri-Fold, Venn, and 4-Fold

  5. Matchbook

  6. Pyramid

  7. Layered Book

  8. Circle Graph

  9. 5 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).

  10. Icosahedrons AIDS VIRUS Use small stapler!

  11. Folded Book RESOURCE: Dinah Zike from www.dinah.com

  12. Resources 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! 

  13. Please clean-up your area… • Return unused paper to the front table. • Return all supplies to their bins. Thank you!!

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