Activities
Virtual Bead Loom Workbook for Middle School (grades 6-8)
Grade level: 6-8
Just Bead It – Sorting, Classifying, and Counting
Grade level: K/1
Concepts and skills taught: sorting, classifying, counting, writing numerals
Math standard: Number and Operations
Materials required: Colored beads, colored pencils or crayons
Lesson Plan using the Virtual Bead Loom
Grade level: 4
Concepts and skills taught:Each student will practice plotting coordinate pairs on a graph and create a bead design.
This design will then be re-created using real beads on a bead loom. Through this process students will learn about the Cartesian coordinate system and the vocabulary associated with it.
Beadwork Packet: Using the Culturally Situated Design Tool: Virtual Beadloom
Grade level: 6-8
Concepts and skills taught:Native American culture; geometry
NCTM Standards: 1, 2, 8
Concepts and skills taught: Fractions, percents, ratios and decimals
Lesson and activity on coordinate planes
Grade level: 6-8
Concepts and skills taught: Coordinate planes
Lesson Plan designed by Mimi Thomas, 2004 Art Educator of the Year
Grade level: Grade 3 and up
Concepts and skills taught: Cartesian coordinates; how to teach math using the Virtual beadloom software