Description

UCAR Staff Abstract:

This resource includes over 88 paper plate activities, where scientists put their research into laymen’s terms and develop paper plate activities that illustrate their respective pursuits. Paper Plate Education asserts that anything worth teaching ought be reducible to a paper plate. This is also known as Paper Plate Reduction. There are lessons in space science, music theory, archeology, celestial navigation, African-American history, geometry, and art.

NASA Abstract:

This website promotes hands-on activities from across a range of interests, at varying degrees of complexity, using common paper plates. The site includes over 88 paper plate activities, where scientists put their research into layperson terms and develop paper plate activities that illustrate their respective pursuits. Paper Plate Education is an initiative to reduce complex notions to simple paper plate explanations. The lessons address space science, music theory, archeology, celestial navigation, African-American history, geometry, and art.

Subject:

Chemistry, Geoscience, Physics, Space Science

Level:

Middle School, High School, Career / Technical

Material Type:

Activity/Lab, Interactive

Provider:

NASA

Provider Set:

NASA Wavelength

Date Added:

11/05/2014