Teaching materials for the Virtual Bead Loom
Tips on creating physical beadwork version of your virtual designs
Handout for professional development presentations
Marilyn Hourston's PD Workshop
Adriana Magallanes: <adri2013@yahoo.com>
Jim Barta: <jbarta@cc.usu.edu>
Video on Ute ethnomathematics, including interview with bead worker (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
Kristine Hansen: <hanskris@nicoh.com>
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>
Amber Michaelsen: <amberann@cc.usu.edu>
Ark Community Computing Center
Linda Rodrigues <linda_rodrigues@nhusd.k12.ca.us>
Virtual Bead Loom workbook chapter
Fractions-Percents-Ratios-Decimals worksheet
Nita Berge <"Nita Birge" <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