QUILTS

Lesson Ideas & ActivitiesK-12 Integrated Curriculum

NEH - PICTURING AMERICA (What is American about American Art?)

Terri Hodges & Dacia Trethewey

Math Using Fractions to Develop Quilt Designshttp://www.quiltingassistant.com/quiltsmathes.html

Using Proportionality to Develop Quilt Designshttp://www.quiltingassistant.com/quiltsmathms.html

Freedom Quilts (Includes math and literature)http://mathwire.com/quilts/quilts.html

Paper Quiltshttp://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=U104

Covering the Plane with Rep-Tileshttp://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L251

Patterns That Growhttp://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=U103

Creating Polynomial Quiltshttp://www.quiltingassistant.com/quiltsmathhs.html

Science / Technology Whole Cloth Unit (Discovering Science & Technology Through American

History)http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/index.html

Digital Quilt, Storytelling (Identity) Lessonhttps://c21cl.pbworks.com/w/page/12148738/NETS-S%201%20Digital%20Storytelling%20Identity%20Quilt%20Lesson%20Plan

Digital Quilts (Photo, Printing, Stitching)http://www.thedigitalquilt.com/

Genome Quilts, Beverly St. Clair (Artist inspired by Science)http://www.genomequilts.com/

Technology: Industrial Revolution, NC Cotton Mills (analyzing primary docs)

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/2713?ref=search

Science of Quilts Lessonhttp://www.cityofmesquite.com/hmi/documents/Quiltmania-Lesson-plan-science-of-quilts.pdf

Electronic Quilts that Respond to the Environment (Interesting)http://www.fashioningtech.com/profiles/blogs/electronic-quilts-that-respond

Social StudiesFreedom Quilts

http://mathwire.com/quilts/quilts.htmlFamily and Friendship Quilts

http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/family-and-friendship-quiltsMartin Luther King and Faith Ringgold- Quilts

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/printables/PArtSSLABlackHist-KingAndRinggold-QuiltDrawings-ArtRecordHistory23.htm

Variety of Lesson Plans http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~akc28/akcadw/quilt/lessons.htm

The Solidarity Quilt Art & Craft Activity http://www.lessonplans.com/ext-resource.php?l=http://www.womeninworldhistory.co

m/lesson21.htmlHistory In Quilts

http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/history-quilts#sect-introductionStory Quilts

http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit121/lesson2.htmlQuilt to Freedom

http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit63/lesson6.htmlUnderground Railroad Quilts: Fact or Fiction

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/4942

The Keeping Quilt

                                     

                 

(1988, Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0671649639. Picture Book. 32 pages. Gr K-3.)

A Russian immigrant mother and family arrive in the United States. She plans to make a quilt from a basket of old clothes, telling her daughter, "It will be like having the family in backhome Russia dance around us at night." The quilt is passed along from mother to daughter for four generations. It becomes a Sabbath tablecloth and a wedding canopy. When it becomes a blanket for new generations of children, it really tells a family's story of love, faith and endurance.

http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/alidassong.html

By Patricia Polacco

Alida’ s Song

In Alida's Song, that grandmother rescues him again. She's not working in the cookcamp now but is housekeeper and cook for two bachelor farmers (just like in LakeWoebegone). She writes asking her grandson to join her. He will, she says, be able to help with the farming.

Gunar and Olaf do well by the boy as does his grandmother, of course. It's hard work and they toil from early morning to late evening, pausing only to eat enormous and frequent meals. They do believe in fun, however, and the two men prepare a feast for the boy's grandmother complete with fiddle and spoon music afterward. She teaches the boy to dance, to trust and to love again.

In all, the book is tender and quite wonderful. The knowledge that the work is largely autobiographical lets us feel grateful that the man whose work we so admire today had such nourishment, at least for a summer.

Gary Paulsen. (Perfection Learning, 2001. ISBN 9780756908393.) Novel. 88 pages. Grades 5-8.

http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/alidassong.html

The Quilt

1944. Wartime. A six-year-old boy goes to spend the summer with his grandmother Alida in a small town near the Canadian border. With the men all gone off to fight, the women are left to run the farms. There’s plenty for the boy to do—trying to help with the chores, getting to know the dog, and the horses, cows, pigs, and chickens. But when his cousin Kristina goes into labor, he can’t do a thing. Instead, the house fills with women come to help and to wait, and to work on a quilt together. This is no common, everyday quilt, but one that contains all the stories of the boy’s family. The quilt tells the truth, past and future: of happiness, courage, and pain; of the greatest joy, and the greatest loss. And as they wait, the women share these memorable stories with the boy. http://www.randomhouse.com/features/garypaulsen/library/backintime.html

By Gary Paulsen

Literature & More Math Literature Connectionshttp://mathwire.com/literature/literature.html

Quilts Annotated Bibliography by Dr. Ava McCallhttp://www.socialstudies.esmartweb.com/HTMLbibs/Quiltsbib.htm

PBS Video: Interview with a Blind Quilterhttp://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=7lfaSmDxVZQ

Collection of Quilt Lesson Plans Across the Curriculumhttp://www.pages.drexel.edu/~akc28/akcadw/quilt/lessons.htm

Visual Art Lessons Paper Quilts, Eric Carlehttp://mms.d321.k12.id.us/webart/html/student%20work/quiltblo.htmlhttp://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/elem/Linda-Carle.htm Faith Ringgold Story Quiltshttp://www.dickblick.com/lesson-plans/painted-story-quilt/ Stamp Quilts Inspired by Faith Ringgold, Lessonhttp://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/Lotte-Stamp.htm

African American & American Folk Art: Quiltmaking–Printmaking Linoleum Reduction Print Quilt Lessonhttp://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/Kelli-lino.htm

Tessellations and M.C. Escherhttp://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/3864 Fiber Art: Molas, Cuni/Kuna (off coast of Central America)http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/Lessons/6-molplan.htm Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Quilt Collectionhttp://educators.mfa.org/galleries/slideshow/637 Fiber Art Lesson Extensionshttp://www.dickblick.com/lesson-plans/discipline/fiber-art/ Community /Collaboration Ideas

Appalachian Quilts (Appalachian Collections Room, Belk Library) Civil War Quilt (Middle School) ASU Partnership Community Tile Quilt (Duncan Hall/Education Building, Appalachian State)

Tile Quilt: ASU Partnership in EducationDUNCAN HALL, Appalachian State (representing over 120 schools) by Linda McAlister, Jill Huffman, Dacia Trethewey

Watauga High, Watauga Co.

Valle Crucis School, Watauga Co.

Sparta Elementary, Alleghany Co.

Blue Ridge Elementary, Ashe Co.

Books/Resources/Activities Quilt Math

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0439376629/quiltstudy-myths-20

Quilt Thematic Unit http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1576901165/quiltstudy-myths-20

Quilt Block History of Pioneer Days http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1562946927/quiltstudy-myths-20

SmartBoard, Quilt Activityhttp://exchange.smarttech.com/details.html?id=9f9f3c40-f23d-42ac-87c2-869f86237b7b

Thingy1 and Thingy2, Interactive Online Quilt Design Tool

http://swwd.net/thingy/thingy.html, http://swwd.net/thingy/thingy2.html

Art Lesson Examples Picturing America Prints

K-8th grades

Color Mixing Activity with “Allies Day”Grade K-1

Native Birds, Audubon’s FlamingoGrade 2-3

“Anasazi Pottery”Grade 3

Story Quilts, Faith RinggoldGrade 4

Mosaic/Crafting, “Tiffany Stained Glass”Grade 4 Collaboration

Linear Landscapes, “Yosemite Valley”Grade 5

Parodies of American Gothic, “Grant Wood”Grade 6-8

Picturing America SeminarAppalachian State University

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