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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Walk Through the Past: A Grave Undertaking

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners explore how historians construct a story out of fragments of the past; a discussion of nineteenth century poetry and art leads students to connect art and literature to their place in time.
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Website
Other

A Guide to Needlepoint

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides you with all the knowledge, tools and techniques to do a successful needlepoint project. To find what you need to know to stitch on each type of canvas listed, click on that particular canvas.
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Website
Other

Wonderful Stitches

For Students 9th - 10th
Features many resources that provide patterns and designs for needlepoint, cross-stitch and other forms of decorative stitching. Includes numerous links to other needlework and craft sites.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Illustrated Girl's Own Treasury by H. Tuck

For Students 4th - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Illustrated Girl's Own Treasury by H. Tuck (1861), a handbook for girls including notable women of the Bible, needlework, materials, exercises, birds, and much...
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Website
Other

Southern Decorative Needlework

For Students 9th - 10th
An account by Heather Palmer of the importance of the role of needlework in the lives of southern women during the nineteenth century.
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Website
Peabody Essex Museum

Peabody Essex Museum: The Art of American Embroidery

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhibition overview about fiber arts. A selective history with representative examples of American Fiber Arts.
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Other

National Museum of Australia: Voyaging With a Needle: Embroidered Maps

For Students 9th - 10th
Hand-embroidered map samplers, the work of women needle workers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, convey what was known of the world at the time and traces the routes of explorers, such as James Cook, who were then active....
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Article
wikiHow

Wiki How: How to Satin Stitch (Damask Stitch)

For Students 3rd - 8th
The satin stitch is a type of stitching where you stitch a series of stitches side by side to decorate a fabric or attach one fabric to another.
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Graphic
Curated OER

How to Cross Stitch

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Simple written and illustrated instrctions on how to do a basic cross stitch.
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Graphic
Curated OER

How to Cross Stitch

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Simple written and illustrated instrctions on how to do a basic cross stitch.