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Activity: Traditional Rug Hooking
Rubrics for Assessment
Rug Hooking
Ideas for Alignment
Brief Description: Students will learn how early Maine families used worn out or outgrown clothing to make quilts, rugs and other useful items. Both boys and girls learned to sew. Students will research early samplers and rugs and make a basic rug using early techniques.
Level: Grades 3-5
Subjects: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual and Performing Arts
Skills: Following directions, describing, drawing, explaining, creating, presenting, internet researching
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.
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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
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Grade |
Maine Learning Results |
Common Core Standards for English and Mathematics |
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3-5 |
ELA A3e Reading – Informational Texts B1e Writing: Interconnected Elements C1c, d Research E1c Listening E2a Speaking SS E1a Historical Knowledge, Themes, and Patterns VPA B1 Visual Arts – Media Skills
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ELA Speaking and Listening: 4 Writing: 4, 6, and 7 |