Curated OER
Overcome Writer's Block
Students review methods for overcoming writer's block. They are asked if they have ever experienced writer's block, what the experience feels like, and discuss some strategies that they use to deal with writer's block. They are given a...
Curated OER
Show Your Colors and Make Freedom Bracelets
Students understand the meaning of a freedom bracelet. In this terrorism lesson, students create freedom bracelets as a statement against terrorism. Students weave this creative project in red, white and blue to show support of their...
Curated OER
One Survivor Remembers: A Call to Action
Students participate in service learning projects within their community. In this community service activity, students study the action steps for a hunger service learning project and discuss the project. Students use the model to help...
BBC
Bbc Newsround: Loom Bands and Other Playground Crazes
Learn about loom band bracelets, as well as other items that have been popular with kids around the world in the past.
Other
Instructables: How to Loom Knit
Learn how to knit in just a few easy steps with this how-to. No need for knitting needles. This kind of knitting uses a loom. Click through the four steps and be on the way to hats, scarves, and more!
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Loom Knitting Basics: Knitting in the Round [Pdf]
Who needs needles to knit? Not the folks trying their hand at loom knitting. Look no further for a step by step guide to this particular knitting style. Discover details from the anatomy of the loom, the supplies, and the craft skills...
Other
Knitting N Crocheting: Knitting Looms All Styles
Is the only way to knit to somehow coordinate our hands to work two big needles and yard? No! Another traditional way to knit is to use a loom. This source will show learners a variety of knitting looms.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Richard Guest: The Steam Loom, 1823
The Fordham University provides information about the application of steam power, which accelerated the centralization of textile production in factories.
Other
Smith College: The Warp Weighted Loom, Worldwide
Site provides a picture and brief description of this type of loom which dates back to 7000 BCE. "From the beginning of Western history until the Middle Ages, the main weaving tool was this type of loom."
Other
African Craft: Small Loom Weaving
Directions on how to make a simple loom from a wooden board and dowel rods. This style is representative to a traditional African loom. Try a new way of weaving in your classroom.
Other
Loom Knitting Help
Let's get knitting! Explore a new (old) approach to knitting that tosses out the needles and instead uses a loom. Discover the history of loom knitting before embarking on a project creating a new piece of artwork with yarn.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: From the Loom of the Dead by Elia W. Peattie
The full text of the short story From the Loom of the Dead by Elia W. Peattie. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.
CNN
Cnn Money: Does a Recession Loom?
What caused the economic recession of 2001? According to this CNN Money article, a lack of consumer confidence to spend money, poor corporate performace, contraction in the manufacturing and retail sales sectors, and job layoffs.
BBC
Bbc: Resource Depletion: Opportunity or Looming Catastrophe?
The depletion of the world's natural resources threatens the very survival of humans. This article discusses the causes and consequences of our overuse of natural resources, projections for our future, and what types of solutions are...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Lesson: Navajo Weaving
Intergrating dance into your social studies lesson on the Navajo culture will give your students a glimpse into another way of life. They will use their knowledge of loom weaving, Native Americans, and creative dance to express these...
Curated OER
African Craft: Small Loom Weaving
Directions on how to make a simple loom from a wooden board and dowel rods. This style is representative to a traditional African loom. Try a new way of weaving in your classroom.
Marilyn J. Brackney
Imagination Factory: Show Your Colors and Make Freedom Bracelets
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.
Other
Native Web: Miguel Andrango, Maestro Del Telar
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....
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Inventor of the Week: Edmund Cartwright
Edmund Cartwright is featured in this brief biography for automating the textile industry with a power loom.
EL Education
El Education: One Weave at a Time
Students create an instructional guide to weaving that includes different types of weaving, different types and parts of looms, patterns, and digital photographs of students weaving a bag.
CNN
Cnn: Deadline for Medicare Drug Plan Looms
News article from May, 2006, discussing the deadline that Medicare recipients are facing to enroll in Medicare's prescription drug benefit program.
Other
Civil War Looms in Zimbabwe
Talks about the growing danger of a civil war in Zimbabwe due to the pressure that the West is exerting on the country to re-distribute white owned land. 8/2000
Other
Descendants of the Incas
The "Weavings" section of this excellent website offers the following options for in-depth study: "Making and Dyeing Yarn", "Weavers and their Looms", "Chinchero Weaving", "Learning to Weave", and "Patterns of Chinchero". Click on a...
University of Iowa
Streaming Videos of Burkina Faso and Ghana
Dozens of streaming videos to view based on African art and culture. View examples of how masks are used in festivals and ceremonies, how pottery is formed and fired, art that is created for everyday living, weaving on a loom, funeral...
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