Curated OER
The Fabric of Our Lives:
Learners discuss quilts within their family to reflect on their experiences. Students examine quilt sqares and sewing techniques. Learners create the quilt square in the classroom and a Hyperstudio card in the computer lab.
Curated OER
Kids Quilt Together
Students practice stenciling designs onto fabric in hoops. After the quilting is complete, they stitch lace around the hoop to make it more decrative. They share their quilt with the class and the class comments on the design.
Curated OER
The African American Experience: A Research Quilt
Learners research the contributions of African American leaders of the 1900's, They design and construct a quilt square showing the achievements of that individual.
Curated OER
Keeping Us in Stitches Activity: Appliqué Bedcover Design
High schoolers explore patriotic and classical motifs in applique design and technique. A bedcover or quilt is produced using appropriate symmetry, color,proportion and composition.
Curated OER
Ge-Oh Boy, Oh Boy
Young scholars listen to the book, Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt and discuss the art of quilting. They examine various symmetrical sewing designs, and identify reflection pieces, slides, and flips.
Curated OER
Magical Four-Patch and Nine-Patch Quilts
Students designa unique quilt with specific blocks using eleven colors. Each student selects fabric colors, creates blocks, and using strip piecing expands the blocks to make a quilt.
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...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Five Senses and Four Seasons Quilt
This lesson engages students in liistening to Gerda Muller's book, My Circle of Seasons. Students will investigate how the five seasons will help them learn aobut the five seasons. Students will write individual cinquain poems and then...
Utah Education Network
Uen: A Quilt of Many Colors
This lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Valerie Flournoy's "The Patchwork Quilt". Students will participate in making making a class quilt to signify a sense of community.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Family and Friendship in Quilts
Quilts, in addition to being a great thing to have to cuddle up on the couch with, have historically been used to tell stories and bring friends and families together. This lesson plan leads students through a series of activities on...
Other
All About Romance: Quilting: Woman's Work, Woman's Joy
A complete history of quilting including its importance in early American history. Sections describe who made the quilts, how they were made, quilting bees, and much more.
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...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Michael James
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Michael James is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his quiltmaking and his books on quiltmaking.
Other
Free Quilt Patterns: Homepage
This site alphabetically listed links to hundreds of sites with free quilt designs from Free Quilt Patterns.