Revitalizing Native American Education through Arts and Crafts

Abstract

The reason I chose to do hands-on activities is because I feel a lot of our students are visual learners and will do better if they are able to physically touch and create something with their own hands. In this way, they will create and understand with more meaning behind the activity. For the activities, I chose a variety of hands-on activities such as beading, language preservation, weaving, literature-focused reading and comprehension, understanding what social-emotional activities look like, and giving the students a chance to make their own traditional foods. For beading, this helps to implement different types of designs using math skills by counting beads, and learning how to create a designed pattern using graphing paper.