BEAD LOOM HOME CULTURE 1. Four-Fold Symmetry 2. Beads Past and Present 3. How to Use a Bead Loom TUTORIAL 1. How to Use the Tools 2. Other Operations BEGINNER'S SOFTWARE SOFTWARE TEACHING MATERIALS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS CSDT HOME

Virtual Bead Loom

Teaching Materials

Tips on creating physical beadwork version of your virtual designs
Marilyn Hourston's PD Workshop

Adriana Magallanes <adri2013@yahoo.com>:

• Master's thesis on the beadloom
• Lesson plan on the beadloom
• Student work on the beadloom
• Evaluation for student performance

Jim Barta <jbarta@cc.usu.edu>:

• Pre-test for grades 3-5
• Post-test for grades 3-5
• Excerpt from Barta's Video, "Honoring Ute Ways" (right-click and select "save target as" to download)
• Math/Beadwork Activity Suggestions for Teachers
• Activity 1 (Counting, Sorting, Classifying)
• Meaning and Math in Beadwork (highlights from Barta, J. (1999) Mathematics and Beadwork.  Winds of Change: American Indian Science and Engineering Society, 14(2), 36-41.)
• See also Barta, J., Jette', C., & Wiseman, D.  (2003). Dancing Numbers: Cultural, Cognitive, and Technical Instructional Perspectives on the Development of Native American Mathematical and Scientific Pedagogy. Educational Technology Research and Development, 51(2), 87-97.

Mimi Thomas <mimi.thomas@mail.uintah.net>:

• Student work connecting the virtual beadloom to real beadwork
• Lesson Plan
• Mimi wins art educator of the year award

Kristine Hansen <hanskris@nicoh.com>:

• Assignments for working with the bead loom
• Evaluation for student performance

Ed Galindo <MrEdG@aol.com>:

• Students using the virtual beadloom at Shoshone-Bannock summer science camp, June-August 2001.

Joyce Lewis <jlewis@lafcs.cnyric.org>:

• Pre-test for middle school
• Post-test for middle school

Amber Michaelsen <amberann@cc.usu.edu>:

• Description of classroom use

Ark Community Computing Center:

• Puerto Rican Flag project

Linda Rodrigues <linda_rodrigues@nhusd.k12.ca.us>:

• Virtual Bead Loom workbook chapter
• Sequencing Worksheet
• Fractions-Percents-Ratios-Decimals worksheet

Nita Berge <nbirge@cohoes.org>:

• Students creating physical beadwork from the virtual bead loom

Molly Suwara <zmolecule@yahoo.com>:

• Lesson plan for 4th grade students
• Students creating physical beadwork from the virtual bead loom

Joe Bowman STEP program 2006:

• Student work