On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Malachi Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Andrew Hudson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Any tips on teaching reverse-folds more efficiently? Right now I usually > > have to walk around and check each student individually to make sure they > > get it right, and when you're working with a class of 30 kids, that's a > big > > drain on their attention span. If I needed to teach an inside reverse fold, I'd tell the students that they already knew "Inside Reverse Folds" that they did them often. "*When your pants came out of the wash, didn't they sometimes have the pockets pulled outside like this?" I'd demonstrate by pulling out a pocket of mine. "We**ll, you'd just tuck it in again. That's the kind of move we call an Inside Reverse Fold.* I'd then explain and demonstrate (with a kite folded large paper,) a simple bird beak showing how the mountain becomes a valley. Hence a Reverse Fold (like tucking it that pocket).. For Outside Reverse Fold which was needed for Kasahara's Nodding Bird, I'd wait until we were up to making the head and then say, *"When my sons were young and getting ready for bed, sometimes they did outside reverse folds. You probably do this too. If something was in their hands and they didn't want to put it down, they'd reach over their heads (demonstrate here) pulling their tee shirts over their heads.* *Notice how most of it became reversed?* I'd then demonstrate by making the head for Kasahara's Nodding Bird by first making a simple valley fold to mark the head and then marking the folds that needed to become mountains and demonstrating that move of pulling the top of the paper from the back and over the top. Does everyone get it? of course not but it helps if several students get the idea. This demonstrates how great it is to come to an origami convention and interact with other teachers to pick up little tricks which are so much cleared in person. Hope to see you many at the convention in NY in June. -- Rachel OrigamiwithRachelKatz.com
