Visualising plunging folds - with your hands and a piece of paper

The new ELI today is another in our 'hands' series - 'Visualising plunging folds - with your hands and a piece of paper' In this activity you use your hands and folded/torn paper to show the patterns made by plunging folds.

This is a class activity using hands and torn or cut papers to visualise the patterns formed by plunging folds. It helps pupils to see how plunging folds produce fold patterns on near-horizontal surfaces or on maps.
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