Grade Range: 5-8Resource Type(s): Lessons & ActivitiesDuration: 135 MinutesDate Posted: 2/9/2011
This lesson plan, developed in support of the exhibition Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop, and Turn, introduces students to the variety of mechanisms included in movable books and encourages them to build their own pop-up in support of a social studies lesson. Making pop-ups subtly reinforces students’ understanding of mechanical movement and helps budding architects, designers, and engineers begin to envision objects three-dimensionally.
Hands-on learning, Interdisciplinary, Museum education
Introduced in 1959, the Xerox 914 plain paper copier revolutionized the document-copying industry...
project, Art, Smithsonian Libraries, pop-up, book, movable books, Engineering, Books, Book, art, Math, Geometry, geometry, mathematics, Measurement, Interdisciplinary, Libraries, Paper, paper engineering, Movable
Follows five inventors: Elijah "the real" McCoy, Madame C.J. Walker, Granville Woods, Garrett Mor...
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