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Pop-up Books
The Pop-Up Book challenge is the brainchild of tech
ed teacher, Ed Goldman, from Brooklyn Tech HS. With
this 6-8 week activity, students engage in "paper
engineering" while learning about the mechanisms
and techniques that can render a set of bound pages
and display them as 3-D shapes that move when the page
is opened. Students' projects must include a minimum
number of paper engineering elements, use principles
of aesthetics they learn, and tell a coherent story.
In 2004, students' final presentations were done in
the context of a "book trade show". Each student
and his/her team gave presentations on their creations
to a group of visitors from outside the classroom. They
talked about their design process, topics that they
researched, the quality of their groups' collaborative
work, and key design decisions they made. Watch Movie
1 to see how they did all this explaining while showing
off different pages of their books.
Strengths of this design activity are many. Paper as
a building material is low-cost and familiar to students.
Most students have seen pop-up books previously, but
still need to learn how their paper mechanisms work.
Pop-up books can also be the subject of lessons in mathematics
and physical science, especially when students study
of mechanical advantage.
View or print out copies of the challenge description of the
Pop-up Book Challenge by clicking the icon or title below:
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