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A note to adults: Origami isn't just fun. It involves following instructional texts (at a very high level, sometimes!) and hits STEM perfectly. I promote it heavily in the library. Here is the teaching standard: Visualize relationships between two-dimensional and three-dimensional objectsCCSS.Math.Content.HSG.GMD.B.4Identify the shapes of two-dimensional cross-sections of three-dimensional objects, and identify three-dimensional objects generated by rotations of two-dimensional objects. Visualize relationships between two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects.
Instructional text:
This site has some really hard origami!
But, this page gives a list of 16 basic, essential folds that will get you started as an origami master!
Can you fold all sixteen?
The "Squash fold" is one of the 16 basic folds this site teaches.
History:
A Brief History of Origami
A Brief History of Origami
Here is a quick, one-page history of Origami.
Although it is associated with Japan, it actually started in China in 105ce. (which is a long time ago!)
Original sources:
Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr is long-time favorite historical novel about origami, based on the story of Sadako Sasaki. Here are two videos, explaining the context from a Japanese perspective:
Literature:
Read Sadako and the 1000 Cranes.
Read Sadako and the 1000 Cranes.
This book is available for free, at archive.org.
You can download it to your Kindle or other format.
(warning: it's not a perfect copy, but it is readble.
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