Learners explore cultural history by participating in an arts and crafts activity. In this weaving instructional activity, students identify the many cultures that used weaving methods and local plant life to create baskets and other...

Students analyze the different types of textiles, processes for creating cloth, and inventions utilized to manufacture industrial goods. In this Telling Tales About Textiles lesson, students weave on a card loom to create their own...

It is a tangled web the ecosystem weaves. Learners begin an activity on ecosystem interactions by building a food chain and then a food web with yarn as a group. To finish, they research local environmental changes that may impact the...

Students examine the forest ecosystem and how all life in the forest depends upon itself.  In this ecological instructional activity, students participate in a personal connections activity where someone pulls on a string and...

Students investigate how natural dyes from plants was an expression of Native American cultures. They examine objects dyed from natural sources, conduct Internet research, and create their own dyes using various plant sources.

Fifth graders explore American colonial life. In this interdisciplinary history and science lesson, 5th graders participate in several hands-on activities that require them to make colonial products that involve physical or chemical...