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Clothes on the Grow

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Can you grow clothes? Sure, wool, cotton, and Angora are all natural resources used to make textile products. Learners investigate the differences between synthetic and natural fibers, then consider textile processing careers. They watch some interesting videos on the topic and even use a spinning kit to make yarn the old- fashioned way.

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cotton, wool

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cotton, natural resource activity, wool, Agriculture, textile crops, textile processing careers, science
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9th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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