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Making to Learn About the Civil Rights Movement through Sewing and Textiles

January 13, 2020 by Dora Medrano Ramos Leave a Comment

Making to Learn About the Civil Rights Movement through Sewing and Textiles

Our approach to professional development is intentionally designed to be experiential, where educators actively participate from the perspectives of their learners as a way to reflect on their own practice, facilitation, and design of maker centered learning experiences. To support educators from a variety of environments, we also integrate making experiences that represent a diversity of subject areas and media of making—making sure to develop authentic tasks in meaningful contexts. During a recent Approaches to Maker Education workshop, we combined a history lesson plan with sewing and textiles. Read more…

Filed Under: Professional Development, Workshops Tagged With: Lesson Plans, Project Ideas, social studies

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