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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students work cooperatively to create a quilt. They choose a pattern and determine the specific skills and steps needed to produce that quilt. Labor is divided equally between group members and a quilt is created assembly line style. Students explore the differences between producers and consumers. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students examine about traditional quilting patterns, the symmetry in such patterns, and practice creating patterns of their own. They design a quilting pattern, and groupw make colorful "patches," of a pattern. They assemble the patches into a quilt. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 12th
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Students design and create their own quilt patterned after the styles of early American quilts. This helps students gain a perspective on how early Americans expressed their personal character and translated thier ideas. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students collaborate to make a replica quilt that tells about the story their teacher reads to them. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students investigate quilts as a way to record the cultural history of a particular time and place. They explore various websites, view and discuss images of quilts, identify colors, shapes, patterns, and symbols, and create a class story quilt. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students investigate the use of cloth-based art forms intended to pass down traditions and history. They research types of quilts, quilt characteristics and then identify how Freedom Quilts were historically used in the US. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 2nd
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Students examine how quilts record the cultural history of a particular place and time. They view and discuss images of quilts, identify colors, shapes, patterns, and symbols, read stories about quilts, and create a class story quilt. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 6th
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Students examine why fabric was first sewn in layers and how it was used. They identify, compare and make 3 different fabric design types which will become a basis for looking at the quilts created by African Americans. They begin the construction of their own story quilt block. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students create a quilt block, using several colors and an assortment of geometric shapes. They identify two dimensional geometric shapes and objects in everyday situations. They experiment in color mixing with various media.l Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students describe historic purposes and uses of quilts. They explain what a freedom quilt is and its impact on U.S. history. They identify elements in quilts, such as colors, shapes, patterns, and symbols. They discuss customs represented by the design and creation of quilts. Full Review »
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