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Let’s Learn About INNOVATION PAPER & FABRIC LEARNING Quick View How Are Paper and Fabric Combined to Create Beautiful Standards Items and Useful Tools? NCECDTL, ELOF: Goal IT-ALT 3, 4, 5, 6,7,8,9; Goal These activities draw upon prior lessons with paper P-ATL 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13; Goal P-LC 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; and fabric. Now let's combine the two to demonstrate Goal P-LIT 4, 5; Goal IT-C 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, Goal the numerous everyday items which use both P-MATH 7, 8, 10; Goal P-SCI 1, 2, 4, 5, 6; Goal IT-PMP 1, 2, materials. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; Goal P-PMP 2, 3; MI Standards SS 1, 3. Materials Model i Innovation Coffee filters, perforated paper embroidery, fabric Learning Framework swatches, cotton-paper blend playing cards, fabric- Throughout this lesson, there will be opportunities covered storage boxes, reusable shopping bags, paper to bring in Model i's Habits of an Innovator and money (real), cardstock, glue, scissors, pieces of fabric Actions of Innovation. and trims such as lace for decorating, hole punch, yarn or ribbon. More information on Model i can be found at: thf.org/education/teaching-innovation/modeli A more detailed list can be found on Page 2. Lesson Overview STEAM ELA/LIT SS/HST Inspiring Artifact of Explore Discover Create Review & Extend Stories the Day Manipulate and Explore the classroom Make a greeting card Read stories related to Learn about early light Ask students specific describe multiple to find as many from paper and fabric. the learning: What Do bulbs. and open-ended examples of paper and combination paper You Do with a Chance? questions. Make a bookmark. Show students all the fabric; test for strength. and fabric items as by Kobi Yamada and different paper and Family Connection possible. Make a bracelet from The Book of Mistakes Discover items made fabric combinations worksheet to send toilet paper tubes and by Corinna Luyken. combining paper and experimented with to home. fabric. fabric. find the best for early Coloring sheet to send Make an owl with toilet light bulbs. Explore the collections home or work on in paper tubes, fabric and of The Henry Ford class. paper. for paper and fabric artifacts. Stay Curious, Collaborate, Be Empathetic, Uncover Learn from Failure Stay Curious, Design, Collaborate, Stay Curious, Learn from Failure Uncover Collaborate Stay Curious, Collaborate, Uncover thf.org/innovationlearning | 1 Let’s Learn About INNOVATION PAPER & FABRIC LEARNING Materials Explore Create Activity — Touch Exploration Project Two — Bookmarks • Clothing • Cardstock • Shopping bags (paper and reuseable) • Fabric scraps, large enough to cover • Storage boxes (cardboard vs. fabric-lined cardstock strips crates or canvas bags) • Hole punch • Flocked wallpaper • Yarn or ribbon • Greeting cards • Scissors • Teachers can provide as many examples of paper and fabric items as possible for touch exploration Discover Create Activity — What Around Our Classroom Is Made Project Three — Bracelets of Paper and Fabric? • Toilet paper tubes • Fabric-covered storage boxes • Fabric scraps • Baseball caps/visors • Glue • Toys • Scissors • Books • Pull-down classroom maps • Book bags • Brown paper bags • Paper money (real) • Wall decorations Create Create Project One — Greeting Cards Project Four — Toilet Paper Tube Owls • Cardstock • Toilet paper tubes • Fabric scraps • Fabric scraps • Crayons, markers or colored pencils (optional) • Yellow or orange construction paper for beak • Glue • White and black construction paper or • Scissors googly eyes • Glue • Scissors • Pencil thf.org/innovationlearning | 2 Let’s Learn About INNOVATION PAPER & FABRIC LEARNING Lesson Guide Explore Inspiring Stories Stay Curious, Collaborate, Uncover Be Empathetic, Learn from Failure Compare, Contrast, Combine Read Stories to Inspire What Can Be Made with Your Students ....................... Page 16 Paper and Fabric? .................. Page 4 Activity: Touch Exploration ........ Page 4 Links & Photos ........................ Pages 5-7 Discover Review & Extend Stay Curious, Collaborate, Uncover Stay Curious, Collaborate Activity: What Around Our Ask Students Specific and Classroom Is Made of Open-Ended Questions .......... Page 17 Paper and Fabric? ........................ Page 8 Family Connection ...................... Page 18 Coloring Sheet .............................. Page 19 Artifact of the Day Stay Curious, Collaborate, Uncover Early Light Bulbs ..................... Page 9 Links & Photos ...................... Pages 10-11 Create Design, Learn from Failure What Can We Make with Metal and Fabric? Project 1: Greeting Cards ........... Page 12 Project 2: Bookmarks ................. Page 13 Project 3: Bracelets .................... Page 14 Project 4: Toliet Paper Tube Owls .................. Page 15 thf.org/innovationlearning | 3 Let’s Learn About INNOVATION PAPER & FABRIC LEARNING Explore Compare, Contrast, Combine Activity Ask students to explain the differences they see and Touch Exploration feel between paper and fabric. Teachers can provide Provide many different examples of paper and fabric students with blocks or other items of weight for for students to touch and manipulate and to describe students to determine which material (paper or fabric) what they see and feel. is stronger, more durable, more flexible, etc. Teachers can help students discover ways fabric and Teachers can show students dollar bills as one way paper are used in combination, such as in: fabric and paper are combined into something we use every day. Ask students if they know what happens • Clothing when paper alone gets wet and if they have ever seen • Shopping bags money that went through their laundry. Have them • Storage boxes (cardboard vs. fabric-lined think about why money doesn't fall apart from being crates or canvas bags) washed, but regular paper does, so that they can • Flocked wallpaper understand that combining fabric with paper makes it stronger. • Greeting cards Have students touch and describe what they see and feel with paper bags and reusable shopping bags What Can Be Made with (those with cardboard sheets to allow to stand, such Paper and Fabric? as from Walmart or Meijer), and think about why they are used together. Teachers can show students images from history of paper and fabric in papier mache dolls, and is used to make a gasket in a Model A and later cars. Ask students what they would think about playing with Model i Innovation these dolls? Would they have to be extra careful with these? Do they think cars today have paper parts? Learning Framework Stay Curious, Collaborate, Uncover Links and photos for this section are on Pages 5-7. • Ask questions like what, why, how. • Talk about helping, working together. • What do you see (characteristics, properties)? What problems does this material help us solve? thf.org/innovationlearning | 4 Let’s Learn About INNOVATION PAPER & FABRIC LEARNING Explore — Links Papier Mache Doll, 1863-1892 thf.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/296513 thf.org/innovationlearning | 5 Let’s Learn About INNOVATION PAPER & FABRIC LEARNING Explore — Links Papier Mache Doll, 1860-1920 thf.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/296501 thf.org/innovationlearning | 6 Let’s Learn About INNOVATION PAPER & FABRIC LEARNING Explore — Links Paper Gaskets for Automobile Engine Being Manufactured, 1936 thf.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/296585 thf.org/innovationlearning | 7 Let’s Learn About INNOVATION PAPER & FABRIC LEARNING Discover Activity Model i Innovation What Around Our Classroom Is Made Learning Framework of Paper and Fabric? Stay Curious, Collaborate, Uncover Students can continue discovering what happens • Ask questions like what, why, how. when you combine the two materials by exploring for items around the classroom. • Talk about helping, working together. Teachers can be sure that combination items are • What do you see (characteristics, properties)? available around the classroom: items previously What problems does this material help us explored, fabric-covered books, wall decorations, solve? fabric-covered storage boxes, reusable shopping bags with cardboard-covered bottoms, baseball caps/ visors, toys, pull-down classroom maps, book bags, brown paper bags, paper money (real), etc. thf.org/innovationlearning | 8 Let’s Learn About INNOVATION PAPER & FABRIC LEARNING Artifact of the Day What Do Early Light Bulbs Contain? Model i Innovation Teachers should ask students to remember what Learning Framework kinds of materials early inventors experimented with Stay Curious, Collaborate, Uncover to light our world? Teachers can show pictures of a combination of carbonized cotton thread (fabric) and • Ask questions like what, why, how. carbonized cardboard (paper) in filaments designed • Talk about helping, working together. by Hiram Maxim and Thomas Edison. • What do you see (characteristics, properties)? What problems does this material help us solve? Links and photos for this section are on Pages 10-11. thf.org/innovationlearning | 9 Let’s Learn About INNOVATION PAPER & FABRIC LEARNING Artifact of the Day — Links Carbonized Paper Filament Lamp Made by Hiram Maxim, 1880-1881 thf.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/196865 thf.org/innovationlearning | 10 Let’s Learn About INNOVATION PAPER & FABRIC LEARNING Artifact of the Day — Links Edison Paper Horseshoe Filament Lamp, 1879 thf.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/199162 thf.org/innovationlearning | 11 Let’s Learn About INNOVATION