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Other
Possibilities... Extensions to this Lesson Plan... Student Samples
In order to make this Lesson Plan a
truly Thematic Unit it must allow for the possibility of adding, subtracting,
modifying, elaborating... extending the lesson in order to meet the needs
of the students and the teachers that will be using it... this Lesson Plan
allows for such changes.
Literature Connections:
One of my favorite books that I have used as a teacher
read aloud has been the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
by Eleanor Coerr. The story of Sadako is a true story of a young girl living
in Japan, just after the end of WWII, who battles Leukemia. Origami paper
cranes play a pivotal role in this story, engaging student's intrest in folding
their own paper cranes (and an intrest in making Origami creations).
This literature connection can be used to:
Engage the class into creating Haikus
that can be attached to corresponding Origami / Kirigami creations.
Science: Be
sure to include science into this Origami Unit, your class will be "ionized"
by their construction of Origami molecules.
Be sure to visit Math in Motion
(www.mathinmotion.com) for
simple hands-on uses for Origami Math in the classroom. I highly recommend
purchasing their book (by Barbara Pearl).
Scholastic Book Clubs are a fabulous
source of simple yet interesting Origami books that usualy follow a theme...
such as Animal Origami, Underwater Origami, etc... If you do not receive their
monthly catalogues, you can request them or surf their web site at: Scholastic.com
You can insure that you will have a
strong Thematic Unit if you take care to use Multiple Intelligence (Howard
Gardner, 1983)connections and utilize Major Categories in the Taxonomy
of Educational Objectives (Bloom's Taxonomy) (Bloom, 1956).
1) Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences
for the 21st Century (Howard Gardner, 2000)
2) Bringing Constructivity Into the Classroom
(Walter Enloe and Karen Evans, 1993)
3) The Child's Conception of Space (Piaget, Inhelder,
Routledge, and Kegan, 1956)
4) Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (B. Bloom,
1956)
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those that use some of these ideas.
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