Origami Final Lesson Plan

Origami
Rebecca Van Duker, Janna Shigley, Chelsea Van de Brooke, Julia Kemp,
Rachel Potts, Will Hoffman
Subject: Art / History / Math
Grade Level: Third
Date: 3/4/14
Time: 1 hour
Standards:
3.SL.2 Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information
presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
AR.03.HC.01 Identify an event or condition that influenced a work of art.
AR.03.HC.02 Identify social, historical and cultural characteristics in a work of art.
3.MP.3 Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
3.MP.4 Model with mathematics.
3.1. Describe how significant people, events and developments have shaped their own
community and region.
3.4. Describe local communities and regions past and present.
G.3.B Determine and prove triangle congruence, triangle similarity, and other properties of
triangles.
G.3.A Know, explain, and apply basic postulates and theorems about triangles and the special
lines, line segments, and rays associated with a triangle.
Assessment:
Teacher observation of whole class discussion about the book and sharing of past
experience with Origami

Students construct a working jumping frog origami
Students complete questionnaire about the geometric aspects of origami
Students charts of jumping frogs five feet and class data of mean, median and mode
Pre-Lesson/Material Details:
Before teaching the lesson the teacher must gather supplies, learn to fold origami and have a
deep enough understanding to lead the class through the steps. The teacher must also prepare
resources such as the video and powerpoint.
Focus and Purpose:
The purpose of this lesson is to have students make connections between art forms and culture.
Students will learn some history of Origami and the paper folding different traditions in different
cultures. Students will also learn a bit about Hiroshima from the book Sadako and the
Thousand Paper Cranes. Students will get the opportunity to construct jumping origami
frogs and use them to complete a math activity focusing on mean, median and mode as well as
how to model geometry using origami.
Objectives:
1. Students will demonstrate their knowledge of mean, median, and mode operations by
calculating each after completing an activity in small groups using their origami folded frogs.
2.Students will be able to compare and contrast the different styles of origami amongst multiple
cultures using a visual aide.
3. Students will be able to define the term origami in their own words verbally to a partner and
discuss their favorite aspect of origami from information presented in class.
4. Students will be able to create origami using procedural instructions demonstrated in class.
1.
Students will identify how the folds they are making model reflection and congruent
triangles on a worksheet using their origami frog.
Materials
- Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
- Origami or folding paper
- Instructions or demonstration
- Video about paper making
- Measuring stick
- Paper
- Ruler
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Tape
Open - 15 MINUTES
1. Teacher begins with a read aloud of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.
2. The class briefly discusses the history of Hiroshima.
Body - 30 MINUTES
1. The teacher introduces the history, meaning and tradition of origami.
2. The teacher discusses paper folding around the world, the variations and traditions.
3. The teacher discusses the special paper used in origami and asks if anyone
has experience with making Origami.
4. The students watch a video about origami paper making and origami experts.
5. Teacher asks for students to describe to a partner what origami is and their favorite piece of
information they have learned.
6. The teacher shows class how to make hopping frogs and discuss the geometry in origami.
7. In small groups students jump their frogs 3 feet counting how many jumps it takes to jump
the distance and keeping a chart of their data.
Close - 5 MINUTES
8. The class finds the mean, median and mode of how many jumps it takes to get the frogs 3 feet.
Frog origami
Steps for Procedure:
Easy Jumping Frog Step 1: Get an 3x5 index card that is shaped like a rectangle.
Easy Jumping Frog Step 2: Then get the top corner and fold it to make a triangle.
Easy Jumping Frog Step 3: Do the same to the other side and then fold it from the middle.
Easy Jumping Frog Step 4: Push the 2 corners on each edge and make a double triangle.
Easy Jumping Frog Step 5: Fold one edge of the triangle to the top of the triangle.
Easy Jumping Frog Step 6: Do the same with the other edge and then fold the flap to the middle.
Easy Jumping Frog Step 7: And do the same to the other side and then fold it in half.
Easy Jumping Frog Step 8: Flip it around and fold the bottom flap in half.
Geometry Frog Origami Questionnaire

1. What type of triangle do we see? Describe how you know this using properties of triangles
and congruence.
a.
In the first fold?
b.
In the second fold?
c.
The third fold?
d. The fourth?
e.
The fifth?
2.
On a separate sheet of paper, prove that your fold of choice produces triangles.
3.
What other fun activities or real life situations could you apply types of triangles to?
Origami in the classroom resources
Books:
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
The Origami Master by Lachenmeyer and Sogabe
Pink Paper Swans by Virginia L. Kroll
Yokos Paper Cranes by Rosemary Wells
Little Oh by Laura Krauss Melmed and Jim LaMarche
Fold Me a Poem by OConnell George & Stringer
Project Origami: Activities for Exploring Mathematics by Thomas Hull

Butterflies for Kiri by Cathryn Falwell
Websites:
http://www.origami-resource-center.com - Folding Instructions, History, Videos
http://www.origami-instructions.com/simple-origami.html - Instructions
Videos:
Origami using Math and Technology - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzcaYbSfkTs
Origami as an Art - http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/between-the-folds/film.html
Math and Magic of Origami https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYKcOFQCeno
Origami and Math - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ7OUaQEbOk

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Grade Level: Third

experience with Origami

Geometry Frog Origami Questionnaire

In the first fold?

In the second fold?

The third fold?

Origami in the classroom resources

Project Origami: Activities for Exploring Mathematics by Thomas Hull

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