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Worksheet
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Preschool Coloring Page - Dress

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Art and sights words are combined in this coloring worksheet featuring a drawing of a dress. Preschoolers through first graders will enjoy coloring this picture while also practicing the name for a clothing item. Simple in its design,...
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Worksheet
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Doomed to Die

For Students Pre-K - 6th
For this history worksheet, students read about dress in the 11th century. Students answer questions related to the reading. They are also asked to describe making an outfit for a visit to a palace.
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Worksheet
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Dress in the 14th Century

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this history worksheet, learners explore the clothing styles of the 14th century. Students draw a picture of a knight or a girl. They answer questions about various items of clothing.
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Worksheet
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Look at the Past

For Students 4th - 5th
In this social studies instructional activity looking at the past, students identify, list, and explain the materials that were used to build schools in the past as compared to their school today. Then they look at a photo of boys...
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Lesson Plan
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One Of A Kind

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore current fashion trends. As a class, they discuss the statements that a dress makes, brand names, and cultural trends. Fashions from other cultures are observed and discussed by students. In pairs, students create...
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Lesson Plan
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST HISTORICAL TIME PERIODS

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners make comparisons and show contrasts between two similar or dissimilar art objects. Historical time periods will be indicated by dress and inventions.
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Lesson Plan
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German Fashion Show

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Learners explore traditional and modern German clothing items. After observing German folk costumes, students match vocabulary words to the pictures. They bring clothing for a fashion show, describe the clothing and express their...
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eBook
Cornell University

Cornell University: Art, Design, and Visual Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th
Use the left-hand toolbar of this site to investigate an online textbook for the language of design. It provides visual examples and explanations of line, form, color, color psychology, texture, balance, proportion and many more...
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Unit Plan
Language Guide

Language Guide: La Ropa De Mujeres

For Students 9th - 10th
Colorful pictures come alive with audio modeling the correct Spanish pronunciation of women's clothing. When moving the mouse over the picture, pop-ups appear with the correct spelling of the vocabulary word.
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Website
Other

Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville: History of Costume

For Students 9th - 10th
Digital scans of the illustrations from a nineteenth-century publication about historic costumes constitutes a pictorial survey of changing modes of dress from ancient times to the mid-1800s. Five hundred designs in all.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Characterization Through Description

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow focuses on authors defining characters through description such as features, dress, mannerisms, emotions, and objects. It provides several examples from Bram Stoker's "Dracula."
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Graphic
Kyoto Costume Institute

Kyoto Costume Institute: Kci Digital Archives

For Students 9th - 10th
Highlights of Western styles of clothing, in timeline format, inspire us with the vastness and novelty of human creation. Examples span 250 years of changing styles in fashion, with the earliest articles dating from the eighteenth century.
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Website
Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: Folger Exhibitions: Elizabeth I, Then and Now

For Students 9th - 10th
Tour artifacts from the Folger Shakespeare Library that tell story of Elizabeth's life, times, and reign.
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Interactive
University of Manchester

Children's University of Manchester: Talking Textiles: World Costume

For Students 2nd - 4th
Interactive resource for exploring what traditional forms of dress reveal about the culture and location of the people who wear them and the climate where they live.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Silk Textile Fragment

For Students 9th - 10th
This silk textile fragment, from the Fatimid period, has designs of geometric patterns, plant elements, and benedictory inscriptions.
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Graphic
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Eternal Egypt: Piece of a Linen Textile

For Students 9th - 10th
This piece of linen textile is decorated with a single-line inscription in black Kufic script. Some parts of the inscription are lacking the embroidery.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Piece of Ottoman Textile

For Students 9th - 10th
This piece of Ottoman textile has red designs repeated on a golden yellow background. It has a round opening at the top, which gives the impression that it could be part of a garment.