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QUILTS. Lesson Ideas & Activities K-12 Integrated Curriculum NEH - PICTURING AMERICA (What is American about American Art?) Terri Hodges & Dacia Trethewey. Math. Using Fractions to Develop Quilt Designs http://www.quiltingassistant.com/quiltsmathes.html
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QUILTS Lesson Ideas & Activities K-12 Integrated Curriculum NEH - PICTURING AMERICA (What is American about American Art?) Terri Hodges & Dacia Trethewey
Math • Using Fractions to Develop Quilt Designs http://www.quiltingassistant.com/quiltsmathes.html • Using Proportionality to Develop Quilt Designs http://www.quiltingassistant.com/quiltsmathms.html • Freedom Quilts (Includes math and literature) http://mathwire.com/quilts/quilts.html • Paper Quilts http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=U104 • Covering the Plane with Rep-Tiles http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L251 • Patterns That Grow http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=U103 • Creating Polynomial Quilts http://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) Lesson https://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 Lesson http://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 Studies • Freedom Quilts • http://mathwire.com/quilts/quilts.html • Family and Friendship Quilts • http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/family-and-friendship-quilts • Martin 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.com/lesson21.html • History In Quilts • http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/history-quilts#sect-introduction • Story Quilts • http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit121/lesson2.html • Quilt to Freedom • http://learningtogive.org/lessons/unit63/lesson6.html • Underground Railroad Quilts: Fact or Fiction • http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/4942
The Keeping Quilt By Patricia Polacco • (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 fourgenerations. 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
Alida’ s Song Gary Paulsen. (Perfection Learning, 2001. ISBN 9780756908393.) Novel. 88 pages. Grades 5-8. 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. http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/alidassong.html
The Quilt By Gary Paulsen 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
Literature & More • Math Literature Connections http://mathwire.com/literature/literature.html • Quilts Annotated Bibliography by Dr. Ava McCall http://www.socialstudies.esmartweb.com/HTMLbibs/Quiltsbib.htm • PBS Video: Interview with a Blind Quilter http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=7lfaSmDxVZQ • Collection of Quilt Lesson Plans Across the Curriculum http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~akc28/akcadw/quilt/lessons.htm
Visual Art Lessons • Paper Quilts, Eric Carle http://mms.d321.k12.id.us/webart/html/student%20work/quiltblo.html http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/elem/Linda-Carle.htm • Faith Ringgold Story Quilts http://www.dickblick.com/lesson-plans/painted-story-quilt/ • Stamp Quilts Inspired by Faith Ringgold, Lesson http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/Lotte-Stamp.htm • African American & American Folk Art: Quiltmaking–Printmaking Linoleum Reduction Print Quilt Lesson http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/Kelli-lino.htm • Tessellations and M.C. Escher http://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 Collection http://educators.mfa.org/galleries/slideshow/637 • Fiber Art Lesson Extensions http://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 Education DUNCAN 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 Activity http://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
Mosaic/Crafting, “Tiffany Stained Glass”Grade 4 Collaboration
Picturing America SeminarAppalachian State UniversityYour Blog site: www.picturingsuccess.wordpress.com