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Looking for ways to help your students honor their fathers and learn more about this holiday? This collection of resources offers several informative websites devoted to dad and the celebration of Father's Day. Find ideas for FREE gifts and more.
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Origami club - Fumiaki Shingu
Grades
K to 8
In the Classroom
Learn about the culture of Japan, geometry, and art with Origami. Use these video tutorials to create clever objects for holiday gifts while teaching mathematical principals about 2D and 3D figures, line, area, perimeter, and planes. Demonstrate how to create an origami object by projecting the site's animated videos directions. Stop and pause the video as students follow along. Save this site in your favorites on classroom computers so students can practice paper folding independently. Afterward, discuss the benefits of oral, visual, or animated directions. Ask students to describe the folding process with geometric terms such as fractional parts, symmetry, faces, edges, rotations, lines, triangle, angles, and shapes. Consider having students use a variety of multimedia presentation platforms to publish their personal version of directions. Have students create multimedia presentations that add narration to each fold with Voicethread reviewed here. Alternatively, share video directions on SchoolTube reviewed here or TeacherTube reviewed here. Have cooperative learning groups create podcasts demonstrating how to create origami with sites such as PodOmatic (reviewed here).You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Paper Toys - Marilyn Scott-Waters
Grades
1 to 4tag(s): patterns (52)
In the Classroom
Check out the learning toys; students will enjoy making their own tools to learn multiplication or to solve puzzles. Use the gift boxes patterns for students to put small Christmas, Mothers' and Fathers' Days gifts in. After examining some of these patterns, ask your students to design their own folding patterns. Use the printables and images from this site for your bulletin boards. Use this site as the starting point for individual or group projects.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Idea Box - Group 23 Solutions
Grades
K to 3In the Classroom
Make this site available to parents and students from your teacher web page for vacation periods and birthday party ideas. Your students and parents will thank you! You may find that some of the craft ideas fit in well with classroom themes, as well.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Father Figure - Lesson to Honor - Education World
Grades
K to 12tag(s): fathers day (10)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of these FREE lesson plans to honor the dads in your students' life.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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We Love DAD - Kaboose
Grades
K to 5tag(s): fathers day (10)
In the Classroom
Share this link in your summer newsletter. There are lots of fun ideas for at-home enrichment.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Happy Father's Day
Grades
K to 8tag(s): fathers day (10)
In the Classroom
Challenge your students to think about the meaning behind the various quotes. Have students create their own quotes about their fathers. Using a picture (or student drawing) use a program such as VoiceThread (reviewed here) to have students narrate the picture (sharing their quote or a memory).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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