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- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students are introduced the techniques of hand quilting. After viewing a demonstration, they practice the same skills in which to successfully create a quilt. They share their creation with the class and offer constructive criticism on the piece. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students are introduced to the concept of hidden block quilts. After viewing a demonstration, they create their own quilt design and complete it using different lettered blocks. They share their quilt with the class and discuss any diffuculties in making the blocks. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students create a quilt with a circular motion in the design. After watching a demonstration, they discuss the techniques used. They use different types of fabrics while practicing the proper needle turn. They share their quilts with the class to end the lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students explain what a quilt is and describe some of the historic purposes and uses of quilts, such as friendship and family record quilts. They identify elements in quilts, such as colors, shapes, patterns, and symbols. Students discuss customs represented by the design and creation of quilts. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students review their reading of Chief Seattle's oration to the United States government. After hearing and reading examples of poetry related to this topic, they discuss the connections between the history and poetry. Using a quilt, they analyze it to discover how to tell a story in quilt form. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 5th
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Students create a quilt square for a class quilt using at least three, two-dimensional geometric figures. They research and write a brief description of at least two different quilt patterns that they find. Pupils discuss that quilts are not only a part of America's heritage, and relate it to math and geometry. Students are introduced to a variety of geometric figures during a unit of geometry. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students use prior knowledge about the community to create a quilt. They use complete sentences to explain their block and also use oral language skills to tell about their caption for their quilt piece. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 4th
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Students are given a piece of matieral to represent one square of a quilt. Individually, they use their own drawings and patterns to attach to the square representing their community or neighborhood. They have their teacher sew them together to make the quilt. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students explore the art of quilting and the stories that quilts can tell. They examine the fine art quilt works of Faith Ringgold. Next, they make a 12 inch by 12 inch square of colored paper on which they make a grid and arrange triangles in a polysymmetrical design. Finally, they discuss polysymmetry and the tradition of quilting in America. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 6th
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Students observe weather conditions, record them in their journals for a week, and understand how weather affects their lives. They then represent how weather affects the way they play and live on a quilt square and document their study of the weather and quilting with a documentation panel to display with the quilt Full Review »
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