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March 13, 2013 By TeachME Webmaster

Fiber Maine-ia 8 – Maine Fiber Today

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Maine Fiber Today Background
Activity:  Discovering Maine’s Fiber Producers, Processors, and Artists
Rubrics for Assessment
Ideas for Alignment

Brief Description: Students will research the revival of Maine’s Fiber industry with the establishment of small farms and mills. Using a map of Maine students will use computers to visit specific web-sites to learn about modern Maine fiber production.

 

Level: Grades 3-5

Subjects:  English Language Arts, Social Studies

Skills: Collecting data, communication, concluding, internet researching, map reading, recording, explaining,  drawing conclusions

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

Grade

Maine Learning Results

Common Core Standards for English and Mathematics 

 3-5

ELA

B1e Writing: Interconnected Elements

C1c, d Research

MATH

B2 Data – Data Analysis (Grades 3 & 4)

SS

A2a Making Decisions Using SS Knowledge & Skills

 

ELA

Writing: 2, 4

MATH

Measurement and Data  Grade 3: 3MD3

 

 

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