QUILTING AND COMBINATIONS

Students make observations about shapes and 1-, 2-, and 3-dimensional objects. They conduct observations and make predictions regarding transformations of simple geometric shapes. They identify shapes that occur in household items.

Students 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.

Students study the process by which the colonists made fabric for clothes and quilts by looking at the trade books and bulletin board displays at the center and recording the information on their fiber investigation sheets.