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Solidly Platonic
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In this activity, learners follow simple directions to explore and create platonic solids.
Moon and Stars
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In this craft activity, learners create a string of cut-out moons and stars.
Cut-Fold-Staple
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In this activity, learners discover how to rotate a flat shape into the third dimension. Learners draw and cut out a shape that has at least one straight edge on an index card.
Simple Pop-Up Mechanisms
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In this activity, learners construct three quick and simple mechanisms to start building a pop-up book. Learners fold, cut, and glue paper to make a bird beak, parallelogram, and V-fold.
The Four-Square Quilt
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In this activity, learners arrange triangles together to make patterns to create paper quilts. Learners experiment with arranging the triangles in different ways to make various designs.
Making a Translation Tessellation
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In this activity, learners slide shapes to create unusual tiled patterns.
Rotating String Shapes
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In this group activity, learners make multi-sided polygons with string.
String Shapes
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In this activity, learners work together to make polygons (many-sided shapes) with string. Learners sit on the floor and hold onto a piece of string slid between their thumbs and index fingers.