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In The "Well Here Goes File:"

You came looking for "links related to origami and education" so straight from my "file - well one of them!" here it just as I built it (for clean up and furture use....

But easy to read and full of good stuff:

Educations Links:

Sites to use and explore for teaching origami, advising teachers and visitors who come here: 2/04 Update: I will add new links to the top of this list. If you have visited before then you will know if anything new has been added that you didn't previously see: I hope this helps. Ideally I would like to connect all these links for you, but the size restrictions of my host make that impossible at this time. Do copy and paste, many of these are very worthwhile sites and teaching aids. Thank You.

- 2/04 How to index..easy bat, swan, t-shirt, whale, crane, origami for teachers. Elementary School art, Bird in Thirds a good place for a teacher and your first experience teaching origami!

http://www.angelfire.com/art/gilad/Books_default.html

- Story while teacher folds the butterfly http://www.geocities.com/foldingca/Swami/tale.html

-IF you want to teach this is an excelent site to start with and read and use!

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/5466/ori_good.html teaching the swan

-Birds in thirds: teaching aid for elementary school level very good for right age

http://art-smart.ci.manchester.ct.us/how_to/birds_in_thirds.html

-Middle School Students in art folding butterlifes (third lesson)
http://saratoga.mornet.org/7th%20butterflies/butter.htm

-Excellent example of thought our online teaching. Origami Monkey http://ldt.stanford.edu/~csoohoo/portfolio/origami1.htm

-Teaching Origami; Well put together site for teachers: Subject: Art, Language Arts

Grade: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/01-1/lp235_03.shtml

This lays it out well walking a teacher through this

-Math in Motion is great for lower grade children and invaluable resource this book

(Barbara has this book) http://www.mathinmotion.com/

- look at Michael's site is always worthwhile, "Michael is an authority on papermaking and paper sculpture and has written 18 books on these subjects. He is also a seasoned presenter with thirty years experience in teaching and speaking to school groups, from kindergarten through graduate levels, at schools, universities, libraries, museums, and on television." http://www.origamido.com/Site_Map/Michael_LaFosse/body_michael_lafosse.html

The Whale: a lesson plan I have used before I had the book math in motion. An easy first model to teach in many ways but here is their lesson plan http://www.mathinmotion.com/whalefld.html

Origami Aspect of the artform and why valuable in teaching http://www.users.waitrose.com/~pureland/japanpaper.htm

Another site of a teacher, artist who folds: includes photos of the children

http://www.geocities.com/brojo_5/carol/cranefan.html good to look at

http://www.geocities.com/brojo_5/carol/ summer learning program

A great site with the universal instructions used and understanding the graphics: good for beginners, good for teachers to put up online and use.

Spread your wings and fly do check out this sight and ideas for sharing and teaching

http://www.lwcd.com/paper-folding/

http://www.empnet.com/woodmansee/origuide.htm

Origami Paper Strategies for teaching students teaching students http://rachel.ns.purchase.edu/~Jeanine/origami/oristra.htm

Origami in the classroom: links below all good!!! Go here and look this over for teaching

http://melissadawn.johnson.org/origami/classrm.html

Fourth grade students learning photos with teacher good site to visit

http://r.searchhippo.com/r3.php?i=6&q=origami+butterflies&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.angelf
ire.com%2Fhi2%2Fjc1

Third Grade Origami Stories: interesting site http://www.school.holyfamily.org/Origami.htm

Access Indiana Teaching & Learning Center Guide to Origami - http://tlc.ai.org/origami.htm -
Lists links to other sites and links to origami lesson plans.

· David Mitchell's Origami Heaven - http://www.mizushobai.freeserve.co.uk/ - David Mitchell has put together a very good site "promoting the use of origami in education." Site includes some diagrams, a glossary, and hints on teaching origami.

· Origami & Math [Eric Andersen] - http://www.paperfolding.com/math/ - Included on this page are some relationships between math and origami as well as related links.

· Origami in Education -
http://www.mathsyear2000.org/explorer/origami/Origamindex.html - The Count On web site has included a section on origami and math with some projects and diagrams. [This site is part of the Maths Year 2000 web site whose original address is http://www.mathsyear2000.org/. This site uses frames.]

· Math in Motion - http://www.mathinmotion.com/ - Homepage of Math in Motion, which has information on Workshops, Resources, Links and a Whale Lesson Plan.

Education and Origami:

"Origami is the Japanese art of paper folding. It literally translates as ori (folding) gami (paper). In Japan, Children learn origami at their mothers' knees. In the West, children are learning it at school. Research has shown that paper-folding, particularly in the elementary school years, is a unique and valuable addition to the curriculum. Origami is not only fun, but it is also a valuable method for developing vital skills.

Educational Benefits of Origami

· Behavioral Skills http://www.suba.com/~blonnie/edu.html

· Cooperative Learning

· A Link to Math

· Cognitive Development

· Multi-cultural Awareness

· Community Building "

http://home.istar.ca/~wko/education_and_origami.html Good info here

"taught folding to young children numerous times and have seem the benefits that origami can offer. It is not just arts and crafts! There is social interaction when children help each other. They are refining and developing their motor skills. In addition, they are learning to follow instructions and learning key concepts such as over, under, left, right etc. It is a fun learning experience and the joy obtained by the children is more precious than the finished models. This type of activity may also lend itself to ESL students"

-Another example of why to teach origami Origami: A study in Symmetry

http://web.archive.org/web/19970214135506/http://164.116.97.68/Geometry1995/BenBeug/
origami.html "In our report we are studying symmetry in origami. The types of symmetry we are studying are: vertical, horizontal, and right/left hand symmetry."

Origami and Math:

Investigating Math and Origami and why to teach math with origami? Go here first and

Read this: http://www.lwcd.com/paper-folding/

Geometry Junkyard: Origami - http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/origami.html

Resource listing of links for information about the relationship between origami and geometry.

Paper Folding - http://www.lwcd.com/paper-folding/

Details of a book which teaches math through origami.

Teaching Mathematical Thinking Through Origami - http://csis.pace.edu/~meyer/origami/

Suggestions for using origami to teach concepts in mathematics, with diagrams of models.

http://web.merrimack.edu/hullt/OrigamiMath.html Origami and math!

There are many wonderful and technical and working sites for teaching of mathmatics at high school and college level using origami but I will not list here:

Origami in Therapy widely use in this country and others:

Use of origami in therapy- examples

Psychologists Occupational Therapists

Doctors Art Therapists

Nurses Teachers

Child Therapist Speech Therapists

Other Professionals

Strategies for Any Model: http://rachel.ns.purchase.edu/~Jeanine/origami/oristra.htm You will find most interesting reading, acessments, and help here. Subtitle of this site: Here are general techniques that can be applied to any model and fit very well in the culture of origami, in which every student is a potential teacher.

Have you found a wonderful lesson preparation for teaching origami that you would like to share, or are you a teacher with prepared origami lessons for teaching or art? Please feel free to E-Mail me to include it here for others, just click the boy and books link to E-Mail us.