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- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students explore and practice the art of making glass beads, and about lampworking basics through the use of video instruction and hands-on activities. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students complete a variety of estimation and multiplication activities to plan, create and write directions for creating beaded bracelets. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 7th
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Students describe, and try, the process of weaving and demonstrate how Native Americans and others wove beads on a loom to create long, narrow bands for hair and bracelets. Full Review »
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- 4th - Higher Ed
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Students show an understanding of how millefiori beads are constructed by making some in several styles in polymer clay. They view images and techniques on a website imbedded in this plan, then attempt to make their own. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - Higher Ed
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Students explore how to make millefiori cane beads. They use clay and beads to form the unique art. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 7th
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Students investigate the process of weaving and how Native Americans wove beads on looms. They research Native American geometric patterns online, design a pattern on graph paper, and create a patterned beaded band. Full Review »
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- 2nd
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Students focus on Native Americans through hands-on crafts. They also study various Native American tales and legends, geography, and fine arts of the different regions. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 1st
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Students examine the connection between nature and culture. After reading a story about commercial fishing, they discuss the equipment needed for it. Following directions in a bead number booklet, students create patterns for bracelets and necklaces related to color, size, and shape. To reinforce the concept of conservation, students also make posters opposing the waste of natural resources. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students explore the world of crafts. They make shape poems describing words for beading, write out sequence tasks for beading and write a journal entry on a family member and beaded articles. Graphs are also designed to estimate the number of beads in each design observed. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students participate in a wide variety of activities within this lesson including being introduced to legends, writing their own legends, how to make beaded crafts, story planets and how to prepare for a "Family Day" within the classroom. They also study how to make coil clay pots and experience how to "jig." Full Review »

