"Simple origami at home has multiple advantage as material manipulation activity with talking point about basic science," States Jaipur based educator and researcher Dr Lalit Kishore
The write-up of Jaipur based educator and CASTME Adviser, India, "Talking points in a paper-folding, toy making and playing exercise" [1], got published in CASTME e-Newsletter No 15 (Sept 2020), which goes as follows.
"An activity with a five-year child by the caregiver that involved
paper folding and cutting which provided a pair of flappable rabbit
ears. A video was made – of which a snapshot is shown here.
The activity not only resulted in enhanced attentiveness, fine-motor
development and use of scissors as a low-level technology tool and
its handling with pincer grasp, but it also became the talking point
to build some science vocabulary too.
This is an example of an activity to motivate caregivers at home to
do some paper folding activity and making a talking point for
scientific-technological literacy since the child finds a lot of
technological devices at home. The talking points in this activity,
were as follows:
• Pull, push, force
• Movement, motion
• In-and-out, to-and-fro
• Inward, outward
The purpose was to make use of hands-on experience to link with see-and-speak or look-and-name methods to build
the vocabulary related to science and technology which has become common in daily lives at home."The CASTME official, Dr (The Lady) Tunnicliffe, CASTME Chair, writes in her editorial comment, "Despite the Corona Virus (Covid-19) pandemic around the world, the activities of CASTME continue as ever. It is important that real scientific advice, applications, and solutions are sought, disseminated, and applied in all Commonwealth Countries: pseudo-science will be the continuing enemy of us all. One definition of science is the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment."
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