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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students create a quilt square using Kid Pix software using a variety of media, techniques, and processes. Full Review »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 6th
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Students examine the different aspects of life in Colonial America. At home, they make traditional colonial recipes to share with the class. In groups, they read a book about the purpose and act of quilting and create their own quilt using fabric squares. To end the lesson, they practice dying fabric using fruits and vegetables. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students listen as the teacher reads a book about quilts, before they discuss the craftsmanship used in making quilts. They study the regions and symbols associated with their state. They make a quilt square using one of the facts by typing the fact into a word processing template. They complete a quilt square to be added a class quilt. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten
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Students discuss and describe the differences and similarities in families. After reciting finger plays about families, they draw pictures of their own families. Next, they incorporate their family pictures into a paper quilt. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students identify and define the term material culture as refering to a vast array of objects and activities that people make and do traditionally. They identify diverse crafts and decorative arts that are made and practiced indoors and outdoors throughout the seasonal round all across the state, Students also identify traditional Louisiana crafts of the past and present through research. Full Review »
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- 1st - 12th
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Students brainstorm a list of stories or items that make them proud of their heritage. Individually, they create their own quilt square design which uses a border and markers. To end the lesson, they sew the squares together and describe their own square. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 12th
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Students compare and constrast fiber arts from a variety of cultures and time periods. They draw a patchwork quilt using irregular geometric shapes and bright colors. Students display their quilts as part of an exhibit. They are told that the craft of quilting goes bact at least to ancient Egypt. Full Review »
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- 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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