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Curated OER

Painted Story Quilt

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Emmulate some of Faith Ringgolds famous painted story quilts in your classroom. Have your class choose a story or you choose one for the whole class to portray. They will select their favorite scene to paint onto their story quilt. What...
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Curated OER

Story Quilts

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students listen to Tar Beach, by Faith Ringgold, and create story quilts.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Creating a Story Quilt

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners create a quilt to represent an important event in their life. In this visual arts lesson, students research Faith Finggold and her quilts. Learners use art supplies to create their own quilt and share the symbolic meaning with...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Family and Friendship in Quilts

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Quilts, in addition to being a great thing to have to cuddle up on the couch with, have historically been used to tell stories and bring friends and families together. This lesson plan leads students through a series of activities on...
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Stories in Quilts (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson plan that uses quilts as narrative art to tell stories through pictures. Quilts can also be used to learn about historical or cultural events.
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Website
Scholastic

Scholastic: Masterpiece Lesson Faith Ringgold

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This resource features a look at Faith Ringgold's work "Tar Beach." It provides information on how this author/artist created this story quilt. Find out how you can have your students develop their own autobiographical story quilt.
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Other

Creating a Family History

For Teachers 6th - 8th
What do you know about creating a family history? This site offers a complete lesson plan for developing a sense of how your own family history fits into the bigger picture of the world's history.
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Activity
South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: Artopia: Sculpture Critic: Sunflower Quilting Bee by Faith Ringgold

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource about the story quilt Sunflower Quilting Bee by Faith Ringgold. Includes an image of the artwork, a suggested art activity in text and audio, links for more information about the artist as well as a link to "Do More", a place to...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: My Story Quilt

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will write narrative paragraphs about specific events in their lives. Then students will paint images and symbols from their paragraphs onto pieces of fabric, which will be used to make quilts.