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Lesson Plan
Marilyn J. Brackney

Imagination Factory: Show Your Colors and Make Freedom Bracelets

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Providing a patriotic-themed art activity,this website shows children how to weave "a bracelet using a simple loom." Included are directions for making simple and more-complex bracelets.
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Lesson Plan
Marilyn J. Brackney

Imagination Factory: Soda Straw Weaving

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Using plastic straws and yarn, young children can weave a bracelet or bookmark. Website includes detailed instruction on how to weave using soda straws and images showing the various steps.
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Native Web: Miguel Andrango, Maestro Del Telar

For Students 9th - 10th
Indigenous artisan, Miguel Andrango, is described as the "master of the loom." Miguel, and others like him in the Andean highlands of northern Ecuador create traditional weavings with the dying method of what is called a backstrap loom....