Seventh Heaven: What do foldables have that I don't?

June 3, 2012

My goal for this coming year is to incorporate more foldables into my lessons. I think foldables will help my students remember the content better than simply compying items from the smartboard. Many times as I am going over a lesson I ask about something the students just wrote down and often the students can’t tell me anything about it. They are just WRITING the information down and not even READING what they are writing but with a foldable I think it will make them read what is being put down on the foldable. It is just a hypothesis but I am ready to test my theory. I’ll let you know!

These are some of the things I found this part week blog hopping:

Thanks Melissa: Math Foldable on Angles

http://theenlightenedelephant.blogspot.com/2012/05/math-foldable-on-angle-pairs.html

Thanks Julie: Volume of 3D Shapes with Play-doh

http://ispeakmath.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/volume-of-3d-shapes-with-play-doh/ (I have already been using the play-doh to create 3-D shapes. Never thought to then have them cut them up to find the volume!)

Thanks Nancy: Foldables (I agree with Nancy. I love foldables but I don’t seem to have enough time to do as much as I want to with them!)

http://teachingmyfriends.blogspot.com/2012/02/foldables-and-lapbooks.html

Thanks Guillermo Bautista: Pythagorean Thereom

http://mathandmultimedia.com/2012/05/21/using-similarity-prove-pythagorean-theorem/

Thanks Erin Klein: MathGameTime.com (They list by grade level!)

http://www.kleinspiration.com/

Thanks Marcia: 3D Shapes Vocabulary Word Search

http://www.classroomfreebies.com/2012/05/three-dimensional-shapes-word-search.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ClassroomFreebies+%28Classroom+Freebies%29

Thanks Laura Candler: Free Fraction Spinners

http://corkboardconnections.blogspot.com/2012/02/fraction-spinners-freebie.html

Thanks Stephanie Moorman: Surface Area Concept Lesson

http://teachinginroom6.blogspot.com/2012/02/concept-lesson-explanation-in-pictures.html