1. CULTURAL DESIGN TOOLS
Unit 1 Days 11-14

2. Standard 5 - SOCIETAL IMPACTS OF COMPUTING
Students will discuss how computing enables innovation in a variety of fields and the impacts that those innovations have on society.

3. Learning objectives The student will be able to:
Explain how computers can be used as tools for visualizing data, modeling and design, and art.
Identify mathematical connections in the output of the tools.
Edit an image using Photoshop.

4. Virtual Bead Loom Tutorial
Open this link
(Right click and open hyperlink)

5. Virtual Bead Loom project
Answer Questions here
Virtual Bead Loom project
Read entire Cultural Background section
Explain Four-Fold Symmetry:
Describe how beads were used in the past and how they are used in the present:
Explain how a Bead Loom is used:

6. Virtual Bead Loom project
Insert Screenshot
Virtual Bead Loom project
Go through the Math Game Tutorial. Insert a screenshot of your work, below:

7. Virtual Bead Loom project
Create Design and Insert Screenshot
Virtual Bead Loom project
Open the Grade 4-12 Math Software. Create a design using at least 25 beads of at least 3 different colors.
Insert a screenshot of your work, below:

8. Virtual Bead Loom project
Format your Screenshot and paste it here
Virtual Bead Loom project
Copy your screenshot from the previous slide and paste it below:
Click on your screenshot, and then on the “Format” tab in the ribbon.
Crop your screenshot.
Give it a picture style.
Give your picture border a color. This should all be shown on your picture, below.

9. Math Connections Open this link on Native American Beadwork
Right-click and open hyperlink.
Read article, then answer questions
Math Connections
Open this link on Native American Beadwork
Explain the math term “Reflection” as it is described in this article
Explain the math term “Median” as it is described in this article.
How does she use a Median bead?

10. Math concepts – Look up and define these terms, below:
Type definitions here
Translation
Iteration
Dilation
Rotation

11. Math concepts – Look up and define these terms, below:
Type definitions here
Symmetry
Vectors
Reflection Symmetry
Four-fold Symmetry
Cartesian Graph

12. project
Type your answer below
ANSWER THIS QUESTION: What math concepts did the computer scientists who created these design tools for beading need to know? How did he/she incorporate them into the program?
Notes to take and to put in ppt to present
Cultural history
Tool – what it is and how to use it
Take pic of your design and edit with photoshop
Math – what math is used in the design

13. Explain how you achieved these Learning objectives
Type your answers below
Explain how you achieved these Learning objectives
Explain how computers can be used as tools for visualizing data, modeling and design, and art:
Explain what mathematical concepts were used in the beading design tools:
Explain what you did to edit an image using Photoshop:

14. How to turn This in for a grade
Save this to your computer as we do in class
Example: if your name is Alice Student, and you are in period 8, your file will be saved as 8StudentAliceUnit1Days11-14
Go to
Password is “student”
Add your file to the Dropbox
Congratulations! You are done!