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Dinah Zike's Teaching Science with Foldables
reviewed by Paloma Varela, Bridges, Mexico
When a friend of mine showed the materials that a publisher had sent her, my eyes gleamed like a leprechaun's eyes before his pot of gold. As I looked into the bag and glanced at the bounty my friend was sharing with me, I saw a title that caught my attention: Teaching Science with Foldables. When I opened it I noticed that, in fact, it was aimed at teaching not English, but science through Foldables. That was something extra that I was not expecting but I thought would certainly enhance the already positive values of the book. All at once, two main thoughts came to my mind: "Would it be easy to learn how to make them?" and "How can I use any of them in my day-to-day teaching?"
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In this book you will find a general tips for creating and using Foldables. Dinah Zike is an award-winning author, educator, educational consultant, and inventor, known internationally for these three-dimensional manipulatives made of everyday paper, glue, and scissors.
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Research has proven that students learn in different ways,* so by using these three-dimensional materials the senses are brought into learning: students can touch and move objects to make visual representations of concepts. Manipulatives provide the student with new ways of exploring a topic.
* Research has proved no such thing.
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3 comments:
So...who's doing foldable's? What are they doing with them? Do we care? I had never heard of them before, though apparently there are a lot of them. I googled them just now to get some idea of what they were, and there seems to be less to them than it sounded like before I looked.
Well, remember, redkudu's high school had been doing a folded House Poem project for years. Everyone had to do it as I recall.
I don't know if anyone here is doing them although our new math textbooks have lots of them.
That's where I first saw them.
We're constantly bombarded with these. Constantly. They are said to be a "differentiation" technique.
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