Description:
This was the project that I did for our peer lessons. I had the class make baskets out of construction paper and then had them draw at least one design on their basket that represented them in some way. I started the lesson off by sharing a little bit about Native American culture. Native Americans weaved a lot of baskets and used them for many different things. Once I shared about Native Americans and their culture I had the class make baskets like Native Americans did. To make the basket, you would use two pieces of construction paper (complementary colors), glue, scissors, and a stapler. The most time-consuming part is cutting the strips and weaving the strips in the basket.
Extension Activity:
An extension activity I would do is making the baskets before Easter so that all of my students would have Easter baskets if they participated in an Easter egg hunt. I would also plan a fun educational game that included eggs and the students would use the basket they made to collect the eggs around the room. The educational game would be that each group would be assigned a certain color egg and in the egg would be slips of paper. On the paper would be different words and then as a group students would have to classify which type of word the word was. For example, if a student had the word jump, they would classify jump as a verb and so forth. Students would love this activity because they love when they are able to move around in the classroom.
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