Dinah Zikes Foldables

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Dinah ZikesFoldables
Simple but not simplistic.
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• Foldables are
• 3-D graphic organizers that
• give students opportunities
• to immerse themselves in learning visually and
  kinesthetically.

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Students fold, cut, write, draw, and manipulate
information.
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Students organize information - achieve more
personal, authentic communication.
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Foldables allow students to give learning more
meaning.
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Provide chance to collect, record, evaluate and
communicate data.
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Use writing skills and student involvement to
make data more meaningful.
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Foldables are creative formats for projects
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research
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experiments
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assessments
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VOCABULARY
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MATH
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Multiplication foldable
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Pyramid Fold that helps tell time.
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Pop-up Graphs and Easy Pie Charts
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Marzanos Brain Research showed 40 gain in
student achievement using graphic organizers like
Foldables.
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Research shows Foldables improved comprehension
and even greater improvement in vocabulary.
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Teach students to condense, synthesize, and
demonstrate understanding.
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Students LOVE this kind of homework!
Replace worksheets with relevant
student-generated Foldables.
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Writing is incorporated into content areas.
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Meet the needs of various abilities.
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Students of all levels take complex information
and break it down into visual parts easier to
understand.
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Super way to make Venn Diagrams!
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All kinds of Foldables Projects!
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Shadow Box Foldable displays projects.
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Foldables help students chunk information.
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New Spin to Book Reports!
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Foldables activate kinesthetic memory.
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Improves spatial memory that helps the brain sort
information.
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Writing in the content area.
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Kids LOVE this kind of learning and they can
remember content better.
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Great for project work
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Or individual work
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Group work or individual work
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Fold up flat and can be stored in one gallon zip
lock bags.
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Easy storage for 30 projects!
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Easy to make mobiles