East Asian Origami:
- Origami Resources (link)
- Origami Rabbit (instruction video)
- Origami & Math
- Origami crane instructions
- Paper Crane instructions (pdf):
- Sadako’s story
- 1000 Crane Club
- Instructions for Stringing Paper Cranes
- Ohio Paperfolders of Origami Artists
Origami Videos:
- Between the Folds
- Origami Revolution (see padlet for teaching materials)
- National Geographic Interview (youtube)
- Seeker video on Starshade prototype (youtube)
- Squid Game video clip (youtube)
NCTA Program Origami Lesson Plans:
- TOTS (Tokaido, Origami, Temples and Shrines) Origami Curriculum Team:
- Paper Cranes, Math, and Meaning, Nikki Amole, Columbus 2025
- Senbazuru: The Japanese Art of Folding 1,000 Origami Cranes, Alicia Booker, Columbus 2025
- Origami patterns, nature, and natural design, Joseph Daniels, Columbus 2025
- Japanese Arts and Folktales in the Elementary ESL Classroom, Emma Doefler, Columbus 2025
- Folded Emotions: Expressing Feelings Through Origami, Ciminy St. Clair, Columbus 2025
- Origami, Carol Ann Clark, Marietta 08
- Origami in Japan, Dale Foster, Columbus 17
- Thousand Cranes and Japanese Tea Ceremony, Donna Shurr, Oberlin 10
- Tree of Cranes, Harry Gao, Columbus 06
- Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Susan Mendenhall, Wooster 07
- Teaching about Peace through the Cranes of Hiroshima, Una King, Wooster 07
- Unfolding the Secrets of DNA Origami, Jennifer Smith, Columbus 20
Tangrams
- The Sages Journey (youtube)
- Making Tangram Pieces by Folding Paper
- Polypad (online tangrams)
- Mathagon Tangram Builder Website
- Puzzle Museum – digital collection of historical tangram sets and other puzzles
- Tangrams: Be Yourself – YouTube Children’s Stories
- Stop Motion Tangrams Set to Music (youtube)
- Tangrams as Performative Art
- Virtual Go Game
- Pythagorean Theorom Proof by Lui Hui
- OSMO: Tangram app for iPad and Tablet Computers
- Convex Tangrams (Austrailian Mathematics Teacher)
- Loyd, Sam. The Book of Tangrams (Dover, 2019)
- Slocum, Jerry. The Tangram Book: The Story of the Chinese Puzzle. (Sterling, 2005)
- Happy As A Gram, From Lauren Ko’s “Pieometry”. CBS News. – Tangrams Pie Recipe
- “Five Compelling Reasons to Teach Spatial Reasoning to Young Children.”KQED. MindShift:
- “Spatial Skills Archive” KQED. MindShift
- My Tangram Animals & Teaching Tool, Mei-Lin Wang, Columbus 21 (NCTA)
- Using Tangrams to Teach the Scientific Method & Attachment & Teaching Tool, Megan Chapman, Columbus 21 (NCTA)