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Extractions: Origami Theme Page This "Theme Page" has links to two types of resources related to the study of Origami. Students and teachers will find curricular resources (information, content...) to help them learn about this topic. In addition, there are also links to instructional materials (lesson plans) that will help teachers provide instruction in this theme. Please read our Alex Bateman's Origami Page Alex Bateman exhibits his work and a number of other artists. Most of these origami designs are complete with illustrated instructions. This site combines many examples of origami with tessellation patterns. AskEric Lesson Plans Here are two, quite basic lesson plans. Origami For intermediate students, within a unit on Japan. Origami Ducks Grade 2-4 students create a paper duck. Eric M. Andersen's Origami Page A top-rated Website with lots of projects, history, his own works, and links to other valuable origami sites. (The) Geometry Junkyard - Origami A site for only the advanced mathematician! These pages and links will lead you to explore the relationships between folding paper and math concepts, such as constructing polyhedras, tessellations, hyperbolic paraboloids, fractals, and other complex designs. Jasper's Home Page The author has two main links from this home page. First, the "Origami Menagerie" has pictures of mammals, birds, jungle beasts, and more. Second, the "Paper-folding Diagrams" show how to make simple and intermediate designs such as the crane, yakko, cherry blossom, and other models.
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Extractions: More search options Home Crafts and Hobbies / Origami ] Free Instructional Sites: British Origami Society (Rating: 6.09 Votes: 269) Rate this site: Read Comments (4) How to Make an Origami Crane - a detailed, step-by-step illustrated guide to folding an origami crane, requiring only a square sheet of paper (Rating: 6.47 Votes: 66) Rate this site: Read Comments (5) Instructions for some Origami models - step-by-step instructional diagrams from a variety of authors on simple origami projects, including instructions on how to fold an aardvark, arrow, cool squid, crane, duck, elephant's head, flower form, linked circles, more mountains, paper plane, pureland mountains, pyramid, rota coaster, shining heart, simple fish, simple whale, square dance, star box, tessellating fish, the honeycomb, toad, traditional banger, tropical fish, wallet and more (Rating: 5.88 Votes: 67) Rate this site: Read Comments (3) Origami Help for Beginners - a short tutorial for beginners to origami that teaches the requisite skills to make almost any well-diagrammed model in any book or Website through explaining common folding symbols and written instructions (Rating: 6.44 Votes: 306)
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Extractions: By George Levenson 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 also an innovative method for developing vital skills. Behavioral skills: Origami is an example of "schematic learning through repeatable actions". To be successful, the student must watch closely and listen carefully to specific instructions and then carry them out with neatness and accuracy. Here is a case where a student's success is imposed by the activity rather than the teacher. Like group singing, hand games, and dancing, the pleasure comes in recreating the result and sharing it with others. For many students, it engenders a patience that leads to pride in one's work, the ability to focus energy, and increased self-esteem. Cooperative Learning: Origami is well-suited to working with a classroom of 30 or more students. In a multi-age setting, paper-folding tends to eliminate the status associated with age differences; the younger children are often in a position to teach the older children, and it provides an activity that works well when teaming different grade levels.Many teachers report that children who do not "star"in other places, are often quick to learn origami and help their classmates master the steps.
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Extractions: Reviews of "How to Fold a Paper Crane" The following reviews will give you a sense of the video HOW TO FOLD A PAPER CRANE. Please note that you can judge the program for yourself by ordering it on 30 day approval. Call toll free:1 800 827-0949. If it doesn't meet with your complete satisfaction, just send it back for a full refund. Wilson Library Bulletin Origami: its Zen-like discipline and symmetric pleasures are naturally appealing to kids. HOW TO FOLD A PAPER CRANE is an excellent kid-vid choice. It's interactive in the old-fashioned sense of the word. A calm-voiced narrator introduces us to a pair of gloved hands with the expressiveness of Harpo Marx. Spare music and a plain background set off the friendly hands as they follow the steps to produce a paper crane. The instructions are clear as can be, and the narrator's cute, helpful metaphors ("open frog's mouth all the way") make the process conceptual. Children age seven and older will experience the pride of having created something after viewing the video. The program is beautifully packaged and suited for classroom use or a rainy day.
Art On Paper: Origami Enthusiasts Ready For Festival The Official Website of the Salisbury Post; Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina. his interest in origami from a love of folding paper fortune tellers and paper airplanes in and teaches 12 http://www.salisburypost.com/2000sept/090700f.htm
Extractions: SALISBURY POST CHARLOTTE Music might soon have to share its station as a universal language with a centuries-old Japanese art form that is rapidly enveloping a ream of enthusiasts. (Although) it will always have its roots in Japanese culture, origami is an international art form, says Jonathan Baxter, founder and artistic director of the Queen Citys Southeast Origami Festival, which will take place Sept. 19-27. But Baxter is not only the SEOFs president, hes also an origami hobbyist who happened upon the art as a result of his compulsion to collect how-to books. Baxters interest unfolded about 20 years ago as he realized that the craft was experiencing a revival in the 20th century. According to information on origamist Joseph Wus Web site, paper folding has been around since the first century A.D., when it is believed that paper was first invented in China.
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Extractions: Sunday, May 2nd, 2004 - Morning (10:30am - 12:30pm) ENRICHMENT ORIGAMI taught by Toshiko Kobayashi SIMPLE BROCHURE BOX taught by Dor Jeong INTERMEDIATE Brochures make wonderful paper for modular boxes. Dor will teach a masu box and then an 8-piece box (4 for the top, and 4 for the bottom) that really makes use of the kaleidoscope patterns created by using brochures. It's dazzling! These boxes are also quite sturdy and good for transporting origami to show your friends. FLOWER BOX taught by Kay Eng INTERMEDIATE Kay will teach you this pretty three-piece box by Susumu Nakajima! One piece for the bottom, one for the top and a pretty flower tucked into the lid. The first time I saw it, I wanted to take it home! Great for hiding a small gift-you will not be disappointed. BASKET OF STRAWBERRIES taught by Jean Baden-Gillette INTERMEDIATE Did you know that May is National Strawberry Month? Jean will teach a beautiful basket with a handle that is great for display. Then she will teach Rae Cooker's strawberry. When you fill this basket with berries, it's a great centerpiece.
Origami-Math Bibliography COET91), J. Smith ed., British origami Society (1992 of isosceles tetrahedrons, Mathematics Teacher, Vol Trigg, C., Geometry of paper folding, School Science and http://www.merrimack.edu/~thull/omfiles/geombib.html
Extractions: These articles deal with pure geometrical aspects of folding a piece of paper. Since so many of these articles are also about using origami as an educational tool, I'm listing both of these categories together. Bruckheimer, M. and R. Hershkowitz, Constructing the parabola without calculus, Mathematics Teacher , Vol. 70, No. 8 (Nov. 1997), 658-662. Faulkner, J., Paper folding as a technique in visualizing a certain class of transformations, Mathematics Teacher , Vol. 68. No. 5 (May 1975), 376-377. Fehlen, J., Paper folds and proofs, Mathematics Teacher , Vol. 68, No. 8 (Nov. 1975), 608-611. Frigerio, Emma, New relations in origami geometry proposed by J. Justin, Proceedings of the First International Meeting of Origami Science and Technology , H. Huzita ed. (1989), 125-130. Frigerio, Emma, Origami geometry: old and new, Proceedings of the First International Meeting of Origami Science and Technology , H. Huzita ed. (1989), 379-386. Frigerio, Emma and Humiaki Huzita, A possible example of system expansion in origami geometry, Proceedings of the First International Meeting of Origami Science and Technology , H. Huzita ed. (1989), 53-69.
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Extractions: 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. Assign students the task learning new models by consulting the many books available (see the bibliography) and also a growing number of Web pages. As a natural follow-up to (oral) teaching, give students the task of preparing directions using their own writing and diagrams. Preparing directions at the level found in books is a challenge. However, it is possible to make acceptable diagrams using a variety of methods. Computer based systems can be used and this can serve as an opportunity to encourage students to refine and polish their work. Many people use specialized tools to produce drawings, but even the basic draw tools can be beneficial. Other options are to scan in hand drawn diagrams, scan actual models in development, or use a digital camera to produce images. These images can be marked up using a computer drawing program. Finally, students can produce hypermedia: text, images, animation, and sound linked together, with the navigation under the partial control of the user. Several different techniques for producing diagrams are included in this paper. Ask students to consider beforehand what will be the results of making a fold. Ask them to visualize it 'in their minds'. Encourage them to pose generalizations on the effects of folds. For example, folding an edge to a parallel edge divides an area in half.
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Extractions: Behavioral Skills: For many students, origami engenders a patience that leads to pride in their work, which increases self-esteem and the ability to focus their energy. Students must watch closely and listen carefully to specific instructions and then carry out those instructions carefully and accurately. Cognitive Development: Origami must be performed in a prescribed order to yield a successful outcome. Piaget, the renowned child development psychologist, held that "motor activity in the form of skilled movements is vital to the development of intuitive thought and the mental representation of space."
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Extractions: Origami or the art of paper folding receives substantial endorsement from current reform initiatives in mathematics education. Particularly, at the elementary school level, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in its Principles and Standards for School Mathematics recommends that students use paper folding to perform their initial investigations of symmetry and congruence in geometry (NCTM, 2000). Since prospective elementary school teachers need a solid foundation in the mathematical basis of these reform initiatives, textbooks for these future teachers should contain paper-folding applications. Although origami spans academic disciplines, paper folding has increasingly been applied to mathematical systems and structures (Hull, 1996; Auckly and Cleveland, 1995). Moreover, origami is a unique mathematical activity because one can take a sheet of paper and transform it into a three-dimensional object. This concrete experience in spatial reasoning can then be transformed into a lesson on symmetry or graph theory (Peterson, 1995). Educators have also applied paper folding to such diverse mathematical objects as logical structures (Cipra, 1998), axiomatic systems (Alperin, 2000), and tessellations with geometrical figures (Stewart, 1999).
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Extractions: We know very little about the origin of origami. Some say origami originated in China around 2000 years ago. But it is probably wrong. This opinion is based on the conjecture that origami started right after the invention of paper, for which we have no evidence. The paper of Former Han dynasty shows no trace of origami. The Chinese character for paper, zhi, originally stood for writing material made of silk. The origin of the Japanese word for paper, kami, is said to be birch tree, kaba, or strips of wood or bamboo, kan. Both of them were also writing material. These suggest that paper was primarily writing material, not folding. Others say origami originated from Japan in Heian era. Again, it is probably wrong. They refer to a story of Abe-no Seimei who made a paper bird and turned it to a real one, or another story about Fujiwara-no Kiyosuke who sent his ex-girlfriend a fake frog. There is no reason, however, for believing that they folded paper to make them. In Japan, we use wrapping paper called tatogami or tato. Today we mainly wrap kimono with it. It actually dates back to Heian era. But it is by no means an example of origami, since it is folded just squarely.
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Extractions: You're at Home About Us Origami / East and West of Origami Paper Most of us will remember folding paper cups, salt cellars (we called them 'cootie' catchers or 'fortune tellers') and paper balloons as children in elementary school. There is more to origami than these simple models would lead us to believe. Origami comes from the Japanese words for folding, ori , and the Japanese word for paper, kami . When combined, kami becomes gami and the word is origami. It shares the same origin but has taken two distinct avenues of development since its creation. Those two avenues of origami have merged together in the twentieth century. There is more to origami today than just paper-folding. Origami has a long history in the east and west and a sophistication which is more artistic than a mere craft. The following is the story of the east and west in origami. The Basic Materials The Japanese learned about paper-making in the early seventh century. They gained their knowledge of paper from a Buddhist monks who came to Japan from China through Korea and the books that they brought. This started about 538 A.D. The Japanese began making paper of their own by about 610 A.D. It is believed that Dokyo, a Buddhist monk, brought knowledge of paper-making as well as painting and ink-making. He was even a doctor and became the chief physician to Empress Shotoku. The Eastern Avenue Figure 1: Flower wrapping resembling noshi wrapping The Muromachi period in Japan lasted from 1338 to 1573. The folding style of this period represented a persons place in society. Paper was now inexpensive enough to be used by everyone and origami became a means of social stratification. It was a period of military rule and two schools of origami existed. The samurai followed the Ise school while peasants and farmers followed the Ogasawara school. There has been 400 years of mothers teaching their children how to fold paper.
