Publisher Description

Do you love the ocean? Now you can create your own paper sea with Easy Ocean Origami. With a few simple folds you'll make a blue whale, a sail boat, a windsurfer, and so much more. Grab some paper and start folding!

Author Biography

Christopher L. Harbo discovered his love of comic books as an adult when he stumbled on a copy of Stan Sakai's comic Usagi Yojimbo. Today, Christopher's bookshelves are loaded with comics and graphic novels from around the world. When he's not reading, Christopher enjoys practicing origami, watching Japanese anime, and working in his garden.

Table of Contents

Origami ocean -- Materials -- Folding techniques and symbols -- Royal yacht -- Floating ship -- Cool Windsurfer -- Blue whale -- Clever sailboat -- Swimming goldfish -- Water lily -- Origami ocean fun.

Review

This series presents some math-related art activities that teachers might use in their classrooms to add to and enrich their mathematics instruction. In each book, the author demonstrates some origami activities that could supplement a lesson. . . .In addition to teachers using the series to challenge students or enrich their units of study, children could use the books on their own. . . .Origami activities can help with fine-motor skills as well as with mathematical skills in spatial reasoning and geometry.-- "Teaching Children Mathematics, NCTM"

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This series presents some math-related art activities that teachers might use in their classrooms to add to and enrich their mathematics instruction. In each book, the author demonstrates some origami activities that could supplement a lesson. . . .In addition to teachers using the series to challenge students or enrich their units of study, children could use the books on their own. . . .Origami activities can help with fine-motor skills as well as with mathematical skills in spatial reasoning and geometry.

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