1. Enhance creativity and imagination: Through origami, students can exert their creativity and imagination, and design and make various shapes and structures. This helps to cultivate their thinking ability and artistic sense.
2. Improve spatial cognitive ability: origami requires students to accurately control the folding and unfolding of paper, which is helpful to improve students' spatial cognitive ability and hand-eye coordination ability.
3. Cultivate fine motor skills: origami requires students to use small muscle groups such as fingers and thumbs to operate, which is helpful to cultivate their fine motor skills.
4. Learn geometric shapes: Many designs in origami involve geometric shapes, such as squares, triangles and circles. Students can learn these geometric figures by origami and understand their properties and applications.
5. Cultivate the ability to solve problems: In the process of origami, you may encounter various challenges, such as the paper is easily damaged and the crease is inaccurate. Students need to learn to face these problems and find solutions, which will help cultivate their problem-solving ability.
6. Learn mathematical concepts: Some designs in origami involve mathematical concepts, such as symmetry, proportion and area. Students can learn these mathematical concepts through origami and apply them to other disciplines.
7. Promote interdisciplinary learning: origami can be applied to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). For example, students can combine origami with mechanical principles to study the stability of paper under different forces; Or combine origami with electronic engineering to design foldable electronic equipment.
8. Cultivate teamwork and communication skills: origami activities can be used as a team project, allowing students to complete a complex design together. This helps to cultivate their teamwork and communication skills.
9. Enhance self-confidence and sense of accomplishment: When students successfully complete a complex origami work, they will feel the improvement of sense of accomplishment and self-confidence. This is very beneficial to their mental health and personal growth.
10. As a teaching aid: teachers can use origami as a teaching aid to help students better understand and master the course content. For example, in geography class, teachers can let students make terrain models with origami; In art class, teachers can let students create three-dimensional works of art with origami.