Paper Plate Education: "Serving the Universe on a Paper Plate"
Welcome to a unique genre 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.

It seems a good thing comes round. Paper instruments have been used since the 13th Century to support teaching and to buttress arguments. Paper plates are also believed to have inspired a key element of the Mercury space capsule in the late 1950's. In 1992 a member of the Great Lakes Planetarium Association renewed interest in this humble yet useful medium. See our Background for the history of paper devices and for current Paper Plate Education endeavors.

These pages represent the cumulative work of many educators who openly avail their work to colleagues. You may freely use the material for non-profit educational purposes. As a courtesy, please credit the author of contributed material. Thank you.