This great site uses paper plates to introduce complex concepts. Paper plates, they're not just for picnics anymore!

From drinking gourds, to maps, to constellation projectors, these paper plate projects go beyond your expectations. Paper Plate Education offers learning activities for preschoolers through high school.

Welcome to a unique category of education materials. Paper Plate Education is an initiative to reduce complex notions to simple paper plate explanations. This website promotes innovative hands-on Activities that you can experience across a range of interests, at varying degrees of complexity, and at a low price—all with common paper plates.

One of my favorite activities is the Core of the Matter. These simple instructions allow students to "see" the interior of any planet. It's a great way to move students from the two-dimensional to the three-dimensional world.

What ever the discipline, this site will give an educator simple instructions for materials that are affordable for almost every school. That's why it receives our Top of the Web award!

Paula Laurita