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Paper Plate Education
"Serving the Universe on a Paper Plate"
What can you do with a paper plate? Try these activities, then send us your great idea. Thanks for sharing. ****Activities**
Welcome to a unique genre of education materials. Paper Plate Education is an initiative to reduce complex notions to simple paper plate explanations. This website promotes innovative hands-on Activities that you can experience across a range of interests, at varying degrees of complexity, and at a low price—all with common paper plates.
****What's New?**
Check out the exciting new material that has been uploaded to this website recently. Paper Plate Education evolves as educators contribute to its content. Please pardon the star dust as our universe expands. Here are some recent highlights:
A quick visit here will help you find your way around this growing collection of ideas and material. Site Map outlines the variety of Paper Plate Education website components, from A to Y (we strive to eliminate the Zzzz).
Background
It seems a good thing comes round. Paper instruments have been used since the 13th Century to support teaching and to buttress arguments. Paper plates are also believed to have inspired a key element of the Mercury space capsule in the late 1950's. In 1992 a member of the Great Lakes Planetarium Association renewed interest in this humble yet useful medium. See our Background for the history of paper devices and for current Paper Plate Education endeavors.
****Feedback**
Teaching is a unique profession in that it encourages sharing of ideas, modifying other people's material, and adapting to local situations in order to deliver a better product. In fact, you may recognize some of the paper plate activities as variations on familiar themes. Please advance that spirit of improvement by sending us feedback about your Paper Plate Education experience.
****Credits**
These pages represent the cumulative work of many educators who openly avail their work to colleagues. You may freely use the material for non-profit educational purposes. As a courtesy, please credit the author of contributed material. Thank you.
Don't forget to bookmark your favorite pages. Now go fill your plate and enjoy.
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