Why Use Foldables? Susan Dickson, Coordinator Teacher 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 OrganizedRationale

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.

Tri-Fold, Venn, and 4-Fold

Matchbook

Pyramid

Layered Book

Circle Graph

5 Platonic Solids There are five so named because they were known at the time of Plato (circa 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).

Icosahedrons AIDS VIRUS Use small stapler!

Folded Book RESOURCE: Dinah Zike from

Resources Dinah Zike. Dinah Zike’s Big Book of Science for Middle School and High School. Dinah-Might Aventures, LP. San Antonio, TX, Google “foldables” and look at all your choices!

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