Summary
The Fixies — tiny helpers who live inside our machines — reveal how folding a flat sheet of paper can turn it into the art of origami. A quick full episode (about 6 minutes) from the how-things-work cartoon, easy to drop into a science or STEM warm-up.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
This episode shows how folding a flat sheet of paper can turn it into the art of origami.
- How can folding change a flat paper into something new?
- Why do you have to fold carefully and in the right order?
- What would you like to make out of paper?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: origami, fold, paper, shape, crease.
Try it: Fold a paper in half again and again to count your folds, then try a simple origami shape.