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Thanksgiving Quilt
Second graders create individual "thankful" felt squares for use in a large classroom Thanksgiving quilt that can be put together using glue or hot glue. This great holiday lesson is based upon the book "Thanksgiving" by Miriam Nerlove.
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Quilting the Past and Present
Students construct a quilt using symbols of the past and present. In this communities lesson plan, students interview an older adult and discuss the history of their community. Students create a quilt.
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What a SHAPEly Fit!
Students identify and explore the attributes of polygons. They design and create a quilt square using polygons, and produce a class quilt.
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Time, Talent, Treasure and Economics
Young scholars 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...
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Instructor's Lesson Plan for Butterflies & Blooms
Pupils use applicable++ techniques to create a quilt with the Butterflies and Blooms design. They begin with a small project such as a sachet, selecting a section of a large design. Instructions are included for beginner as well as...
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Snuggle Up To Pattern Blocks
Learners view and discuss a video about the use of pattern block shapes to form pictures. They, in groups, form garden and quilt designs using pattern blocks and then decorate the room with their art.
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3-in-1 Color Tool
Students use a new tool to help them be more creative in designing their quilts. After watching a demonstration, they design their own color combinations and select the fabric for their quilt. They reiew the color wheel and warm and...
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Shapes and Introduction to Geometry
Students make a quilt. In this geometry lesson, students discuss patchwork quilts and learn some different geometric shapes and patterns that are commonly used. Students explore designs with triangles and squares and then make their own...
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Using Symmetry to Create a Community Quilt
Students create a class "quilt" made of paper. In this hands-on symmetry lesson, students fold paper to create symmetrical figures then work in groups to color quilt patches that will form together to make a symmetrical class quilt.
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Cesar Chavez Quilt Stories
Students create a 'quilt' to represent what they remember about Ceasar Chaves. In this reading instructional activity, students also complete descriptions of the picture that they decided to draw.
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Freedom Quilt
First graders create pieces of a classroom quilt after they explore a specific national symbol.
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Equivalent Fraction Quilts
Fifth graders practice fraction skills by making quilts using paper or cloth for the squares and rectangles. Each square of the quilt is an equivalent fraction which they design. Students can also use this activity to demonstrate how to...
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Centennial: A Patchwork Quilt of the People of Utah
Learners discuss the many cultures of the people of Utah. They create a database of the family backgrounds of students in the class. They record the major contributions of each ethnic group and display them on a quilt.
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SIMPLE FABARIC FOLDING FOR CHRISTMAS
Students explore easy techniques for creating folded shapes with Christmas-colored fabrics to make quilts, stockings, table runners, placemats, pillows, or count-down calendars
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A Fresh Twist on Fabric Folding
Students practice different ways to fold fabric. Using different types of fabrics, they create 3D fabric models to be used in quilts or clothing. They share their designs with the class and critique their classmates design.
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Paper Bag Pilgrim Dolls
Stuents create paper bag versions of "pilgrim dolls" in this excellent Art lesson for the time just before Thanksgiving break. The plan uses staples or glue to attach dolls and includes a picture diagram and two "cut-out" templates to...
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Aloha Symmetry
Learners create handcrafted paper Hawaiian quilt squares. They do this to show the concept of symmetry across two lines of reflection.
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If You Could Fly, Where Would You Go?
Students explore story quilts. In this cross curriculum literacy and art lesson, students listen to the story Tar Beachand discuss the art form of story quilts as used by Faith Ringgold. Students sketch their own "Where Would You Fly?"...
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Art -- The Secret to Freedom
Fourth graders create a coded message in a quilt. In this art lesson students demonstrate the communication used by the Underground Railroad. Students work in a group to make a quilt with a code in it.
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Follow the Drinking Gourd
Students, after assessing a valuable history lesson, create an amazing and very personalized quilt. They explore how individuals helping the slaves escape to freedom, hung a quilt on their front porch to let the slaves know that the...
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Creating Rose Windows
Students view a multimedia presentation to recognize rose windows and quilting patterns. In this rose window perimeter lesson plan, students design rose window from paper. Students review prior knowledge of lines and how they create shapes.
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Benjamin Franklin, Working for the Common Good
Young scholars examine Benjamin Franklin's community service in Philadelphia. In this American history famous heroes instructional activity, students make text-to-self-and-world connections between the Philadelphia community service...
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Making a Quilt: Multiplication
Third graders explore their multiplication skills. They will use their problem solving skills to solve an everyday math problem that requires them to multiply numbers. This lesson incorporates the use a video titled "Blossom and Snappy...
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The Fabric of History
African-American history is an integral part of what America is. Learners examine important events, read informational texts, and create quilts depicting specific eras in African-American history. Each image created for the quilt will be...
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