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

2.  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

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