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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
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Grade |
Maine Learning Results |
Common Core Standards for English and Mathematics |
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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
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ELA Writing: 2, 4 MATH Measurement and Data Grade 3: 3MD3 |