Curated OER
SIMPLY STARS
Pupils produce quilting stars that challenge students with unusual piecing situations, and the sampler format allows quilters to create freely with unusual fabric combinations.
Curated OER
THROUGH THE GARDEN GATE
Students bring a flower picture to class. Instructor helps them choose fabrics to reflect the flowers in their picture and interpret their own garden palette and then do a collage quilt.
Curated OER
A THIMBLEBERRIES HOUSEWARMING
Students can choose from 22 projects in A Thimbleberries Housewarming utilize simple quiltmaking techniques appropriate for a single class or a short series of classes. Directions are clear and complete and contain specific fabric...
Curated OER
Mariner's Compass Quilts: New Directions
Students follow the steps of creating Mariner's Compass blocks using two different methods, freezer paper templates and paper foundations. Then they draft their own original full size block on freezer paper.
Curated OER
Story Quilts
Pupils create a classroom story quilt based on a story (or series of stories) read as a group.
PBS
Pbs: Quilts
If you've never thought of quilts as art, then you need to visit this site. These pages show quilts from across American over the last 100 years. Includes interviews with many contemporary quilters. You'll also find reports from teachers...
Other
Quilt Index: The Quilt Index
A database of images, stories, galleries, lesson plans, styles, techniques, and research about quilts, quiltmakers, and quiltmaking.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: History in Quilts
In this lesson plan, students will consider "History in Quilts." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
Text Project
Text Project: Fyi for Kids: Vol. 1, Issue 7: Quilts: Pieces of Art [Pdf]
This magazine article focuses on quilting including the history of quilting, the use of quilting for warmth in harsh weather, and quilting as an art form.
Broward Education Foundation
Broward Education Foundation: Creative Canjos [Pdf]
Creative Canjos is an interdisciplinary unit that teaches American History through Folk Art and Folk Music. The students began the project in Art class. They were introduced to American Folk Art through a teacher made iMovie. The iMovie...
Other
State Museum of Pennsylvania: Quilts
This site features historic quilts from the State Museum of Pennsylvania. Also available are links to quilting resources, a glossary of quilting terms, and tools used for quilting.
Other
The Baltimore Album Quilt Tradition
An online exhibit of quilts made in Maryland especially the "album quilt" which often contained pictorial images of urban Baltimore life. Learning activities and extra resources are included.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Nikki Giovanni
Poets.org provides a brief biographical overview of Nikki Giovanni including information on her life and links to selected poems. A column of links to additional reading information on Giovanni is also provided.
Other
International Quilt Museum
The University of Nebraska - Lincoln has created a graduate program in Textile History with an emphasis on quilt studies to nurture the appreciation of quilts as an art and for their cultural significance in history. Their International...
Library of Congress
Loc: Quilts and Quiltmaking in America 1978 1996
Quilts and Quiltmaking in America showcases folk art traditions in our country's past. You will view winning quilts from across the nation and have the opportunity to hear quilters speak about their designs.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Picturing America: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Quilts [Pdf]
Examples of quilts produced across two centuries puts particular emphasis on Crazy quilt patterning and on quilts produced by Amish quilters.
Other
Computer Art Using Ms Paint
A site by Diana Hunter, an educator in Indiana. This site uses common software in PCs to introduce the use of computers in making art. There are lessons on design, Tessellations, Butterflies, Piet Mondrian, Landscapes with Spraypaint,...
Other
Free Quilt Patterns: Homepage
This site alphabetically listed links to hundreds of sites with free quilt designs from Free Quilt Patterns.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center Real World Investigation: The Geometry of Quilts [Pdf]
Investigating designs and shapes in quilts around the world is the activity in this internet exploration. Learners will also design their own quilt on paper or on the computer. Acrobat Reader required.
Other
Shelburne Museum
Vermont's Shelburne Museum fuses history and art in a cluster of buildings housing American arts, architecture and artifacts. The fine arts collection is installed in a building that is a Greek Revival structure outside and a Park Avenue...