A little holiday historic making

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by Heather Pang - Mon, 12/15/2014 - 23:55

I have some trouble thinking about the 1970s as far back in history, but the White House History twitter feed gave us this gem last week: Betty Ford's holiday card from 1975 included a pattern for a home made holiday orniment, the Clothespin Cardinal.

So, as a historian and a fan of making, I sewed one last week on our "rain day" (feel free to laugh, but we did have a lot of flooding, and some dangerous travel conditions, so call it an overabundance of caution).

It was easy to make, and while it does not blink like the amazing holiday sweaters posted last week, it is a fun quick project for the holidays.

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Heather! I love this. Can you

Tue, 12/16/2014 - 02:47 — Christa Flores

Heather! I love this. Can you share the link to the pattern if it exists? I think a History and Sewing Unit would ROCK! I had several 5th grade girls chose to study slave quits for the inspiration for a secret code design. I thought it was the coolest.

The instructions are in the

Tue, 12/16/2014 - 04:20 — Heather Pang

The instructions are in the second image with the pattern, but they are a bit vague. The Ford Library shared a bit more on their Tumbler here http://tmblr.co/ZKvbjx1Xk4N_L

Not the End of year reflections: A year of history and making

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by Heather Pang - Mon, 09/26/2016 - 22:01

I started this post in May. I worked on it a bit in June. Then I abandoned it, lonely on my computer, until I stumbled on it this morning. So I finished it off (just a little proofreading) and I share it now, even though we are far from the end of the year, and I don’t know if it will resonate with anyone here in the middle of the crazy beginning of the year season.

Thinking about making and history at the end of the year.

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Silhouettes – Old and New Technology of Portraits

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by Heather Pang - Fri, 09/18/2015 - 06:29

In August, while I was thinking about for a simpler laser cut project to teach Inkscape and the laser cutter in my 8th grade history class this year, I happened upon two things at about the same time.

Telegraph Project in History

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by Heather Pang - Fri, 05/01/2015 - 07:29

I posted a while ago about the line between instructions and letting students figure it all out, and I said I would report back after I taught the telegraph lesson.

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Making and National History Day

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by Heather Pang - Fri, 05/01/2015 - 07:08

In some ways, National History Day (NHD) is rather “old school,” a science fair style research competition for history. I started requiring my students to participate in NHD because I saw the potential for deep research and thought, a good match with our department history “habits of mind” and a great opportunity for students to pick topics that they cared about.

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Just in Time Teacher Learning

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by Heather Pang - Sat, 01/31/2015 - 19:45

One of the things I like about letting students decide what they need to make for their projects is how much learning takes place between the moment they say "I want to make a model of the Taj Mahal to show how the architecture reflects the way Shah Jahan wanted to memorialize his wife" and the finished project. For me, as a teacher, that is when a great deal of learning takes place.

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Heather! I love this. Can you

The instructions are in the

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