Fun With Folding: Learning Financial Literacy With Origami!
Help me give my students origami paper to make piggy banks, coin purses, money clips and wallets, as well as develop financial literacy with football and basketball origami games!
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Purdy's classroom raised $222
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My Project
Every new school year is exciting, but teaching origami is something I look forward to every year! Of course, many students enjoyed origami as a child when they folded their first fortune teller or airplane. But by middle school, many are convinced they don't like or can't do origami - it's too hard! So imagine how delightful it is for me, as a teacher, when they fall in love with the art of folding paper, all over again.
This year, I'm trying a new spin on origami and using it to teach models related to money as well as origami games that help develop financial literacy!
Students will learn to make several origami models to encourage them to "save" money like an origami piggy bank, coin purse, wallet and even an advanced origami money clip! They will also learn to fold play money, developing a skill that enables them to turn a real dollar bill into an inexpensive special gift for family and friends. More fun activities related to money –Financial Football and Banking Basketball –will require students to answer financial literacy multiple-choice questions between plays with their folded origami football and goal posts, basketball and hoop!
Every year, it's an incredibly rewarding moment observing my students who thought they would have no success with origami, re-discover the joy of folding paper. I see their pride in themselves making useful and delightful objects as they line up their origami models on their desks. I observe their persistence and perseverance through increasingly challenging origami instructions; as complex folds are attempted, re-attempted, then understood, as the magic of origami and its transformative properties are revealed. Because making the 2-dimensional into the 3- dimensional with origami, and learning to be smart with money, is the kind of valuable magic we all can learn!
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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