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March 12, 2013 By TeachME Webmaster

Fiber Maine-ia 2 – Did the Vikings Visit Maine?

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Did the Vikings Visit Maine? Background
Activity: Using a Drop Spindle
Spinning Yarn with a Drop Spindle
How to Prepare Fiber with Hand Carders
Using a Niddy Noddy
Rubrics for Assessment
Maine Fiber Teaching Kit Free to Maine Teacher
Ideas for Alignment

Brief Description: It is likely that the Vikings were responsible for bringing woven cloth to the New World. Students will use a drop spindle and Niddy Noddy to spin and measure wool. Teachers may borrow a free kit with hand cards, fleece, and other items needed to teach this lesson.

 

Level: Grades 3-5

Subjects: English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts

Skills: Observing, recording, following directions, cooperation, writing, describing, listening reading, communicating

Fiber Maine-ia: Exploring Maine’s Fiber History is an eight lesson program exploring the use and evolution of fiber from early man to the present, with a focus on Maine. The lessons could easily be used, without alignment activities, as an after school enrichment program or in learning centers during a Maine History Day.

The alignment ideas provide suggestions for including the lessons in a study of Maine history, with opportunities for alignment to the Maine Learning Results: Parameters for Essential Instruction and the Common Core Standards. Teachers may use the ideas as written, or as a springboard to develop their own alignment activities. The alignment for Fiber Maine-ia has been done for the 3-5 grade-span., although grade 6-8 teachers may find ways to increase the level of cognitive demand in some of the activities to meet the standards at that level.

Helpful Links:
How to Make a Drop Spindle
How to Make a PVC Niddy Noddy
Resources

Correlations to State of Maine Learning Results: Parameters for Essential Instruction

ELA = English Language Arts,   HE/PE = Health Education and Physical Education,    MA = Mathematics,    SCI = Science,   SS = Social Studies,   VPA = Visual and Performing Arts

** Alignment possible only if lesson extension is done

 Criteria for Fiber Main-ia Alignment

Grade

Maine Learning Results

Common Core Standards for English and Mathematics 

 3-5

ELA

B1e,g Writing – Interconnected Elements

B2a Writing – Narrative

B5a Writing – Practical Application

SCI

D3c The Physical Setting – Matter & Energy

SS

E1a Historical Knowledge, Concepts, Themes, and Patterns .

 

ELA

Speaking & Listening: Grade 3: 3

Writing: 3, 4

 

 

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