Adventures in Quilting
| State | WV |    |
| Status | Ready for Users | |
| Stage | Public | |
| Subject | English/Language Arts Mathematics Social Studies | |
| Author | Tammy Samples
Connie Wright Deanna Young | |
| Description | This unit will integrate fiction and nonfiction literature
regarding quilting in all lessons. Numerous hands-on mathematics activities involving tangrams, patterns and shapes will also be included. The lessons will also include family, local, state and national history issues. | |
| The 21st Century Tools | Camera
Digital Camera Computer Power Point Presentations Tape Recorder Internet Word Processing Scanner Projection Device Compass Learning IBM Basic Skills | |
| Grade Level | K 1 2 | |
| National Standards | Writing Standard 4
Gathers and uses information for research purposes Reading Level I Grade : K-2 2. Uses a variety of sources to gather information (e.g., informational books, picture charts,indexes,videos,television programs, guest speakers, Internet, own observation) 1. Uses reading skills and strategies to understand a variety of familiar literary passages and texts (e.g., fairy tales, folktales, fiction, nonfiction, legends, fables, myths, poems, nursery rhymes, picture books, predictable books) Standard 7 Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts Level I Grade : K-2 4. Relates new information to prior knowledge and experience Grades K-4 History Standards Topic 1 - Living and Working Together in Families and Communities, Now and long ago Topic 2 - The History of Students' Own State or Region Topic 3 - The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and the people from many cultures can, and Political Heritage Level 1 (Grades K-2) 1. Understands basic properties of (e.g., number of sides, corners, square corners) and similarities and differences between simple geometric shapes. 2. Understand the common of spatial sense (e.g. "inside", between", "above", "below", "behind"). 3. Understands that geometric shapes are useful for representing and descrining real world situations. | |
| Keywords | Patterns
Shapes Heritage Art Form Tangrams | |
| Lesson Plan URLs (new Window) | Overview
Lesson 1: Quilting - An Introduction Lesson 2: Tangram Lesson Lesson 3: Sewing Up Our Country's Heritage Lesson 4: Seasonal Quilts Lesson 5: Piecing Together a Classroom History | |
| English IGO or CSO | K.1, K.2, K.13, K.14, K.16, K.18, 1.1, 1.15, 1.21, 1.22, 1.23, 1.3, 1.73, 1.102, 2.223, 2.2242.204, 2.3, 2.10, 2.11, 2.19, 2.78, 2.9 | |
| Math IGO or CSO | K.12, K.13, K.15, K.16, K.17, K.20, 1.10, 1.19, 1.21, 1.27, 2.23, 2.31, 2.33, 2.36, | |
| Social Studies IGO or CSO | K.18, 1.20, 2.24, 2.25 | |