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Activity: Traditional Rug Hooking
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Rug Hooking
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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.
Fiber Maine-ia 5 – A Colorful Life
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Activity: Dying Yarn
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Brief Description: Students will learn that Native Americans and colonists used natural substances to dye fibers, adding color to clothing, blankets and baskets. Mordants were used to “set” the color. Dyed materials were used to create many colonial weaving patterns. Students will be using natural substances to dye fiber/fabric samples of their own.
Fiber Maine-ia 3 – European Trappers and Traders
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Activity: Finger Crochet a Trapper’s Belt
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Brief Description: Students will learn about early trappers and traders and their role in the development of North America. These Europeans used the available resources to survive and flourish. Students will be involved in research to produce a report or art project, as well as the finger crochet project.
Wild Blueberry Poetry
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Brief Description: The students will explore poetry and art using the wild blueberry as the object of their efforts. They will write and illustrate a poem using descriptive language and read their poems to the class.
Wild Blueberries – Advertising
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Brief Description: Students will explore the role of advertising in influencing consumer choices. Students will then utilize methods employing language and visual arts to develop their own advertisements and/or commercials to promote the sale of Maine’s wild blueberries.
Soil Is Not Trivial
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Brief Description: Using facts about the Dust Bowl, students write questions and playa trivia activity focused around the establishment of a national soil conservation program and the importance of soil. Students then explore and/or develop a plan to address a local soil conservation issue.
Step By Step
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Brief Description: Students study the sequence of production to discover the resources required and the variety of careers involved to take a raw food from the farm to the consumer.
Let’s Celebrate!
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Brief Description: Students explore in their own lives and in the lives of others the role of celebrations and important foods involved, with a focus on corn.
Don’t Use It All Up!
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Brief Description: Students participate in a sponge demonstration to discover that people are consumers of resources and explore methods of conserving those resources.