This unit gives students the opportunity to explore the properties of paper, its uses, and manufacture.
Students read about modern industrial papermaking and explore hand papermaking.
Using the class hand papermaking process, students investigate the role of additives and of embedding and embossing in the creation of paper with a variety of properties. In a final activity, students apply their learning and experience to work through a four-step design technology process as they create their own recycled paper product. For more information about the STC tm program and other NSRC programs and activities visit the NSRC web site. For information on ordering the STC tm curriculum visit the Carolina Biological Supply Company web site. Initially created by Susan Shepard, Brookhaven Middle School, Decatur City Schools and Cynthia Patridge, Lewis Wendell Page Elementary School, Scottsboro City Schools.