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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Keeping Us in Stitches Activity: Crazy-Quilt Collage Design

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students create collages using the irregular-shaped and sized pieces, decorative stitching, and applied or painted motifs that reflect the Crazy-Quilt style, and explain how and why their design fits into that style.
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Handout
Victorian Web

Brown University: The Victorian Web: The Arts in Victorian Britain

For Students 9th - 10th
University provides a comprehensive collection of Victorian art topics that are hyperlinked to further information and images. Topics include Victorian painting, sculpture, design, illustration, fashion, and dress.
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Lesson Plan
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Art to Zoo: House Keys

For Students 9th - 10th
Ideas for teaching and learning about Victorian architecture in the United States, both interiors and exteriors. Although directed to teachers, House Keys compiles much useful information of interest to anyone studying the design of...
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Website
Other

Kenneth Spencer Research Library: Great Exhibition, 1851

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibit with details of the international exhibition held in Hyde Park in 1851, the Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, a testament to industrial growth in the Victorian era.