Ninja Star Lesson Plan

1. BRIDGE: To get students interested by telling a story about ninjas:

   “Imagine you are a ninja-in-training. What will you do if you run out of ninja stars when you are on a mission? All you have is a stack of origami paper! What should you do?”

2. Teaching OBJECTIVES: To get students interested in origami
3. Learning OBJECTIVES: To fold a ninja star with a single piece of origami paper
4. PRETEST: To ask the students,

   “Is anyone into origami? What can you make?”

5. PARTICIPATORY Activity Ideas: To show and let students follow step-by-step on how to make a ninja star
6. POST-TEST: To let students fold a ninja star on their own with a handout of instructions for reminder
7. SUMMARY: To show them other types of ninja star and other types of origami to get students interested in making more origami; to let students ask questions about what they learned
8. PREPARATION: To bring origami paper; to print instruction handouts from here