Lesson Plans

The Lesson Plans section contains lesson plans built around specific quilts, groups of quilts, or collections using the Quilt Index database.

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Appalachian Quilts and Culture
Skeen, Anita; Worland, Chris

Appalachian quilts and culture is explored in this four step lesson plan.
Level: Post-Secondary (College or University)
Content Area: Art, History
Be a Quilt Detective (Keeping Us in Stitches Activity)

This lesson plan teaches students that history can be recorded in a handmade object.
Level: Elementary (Grades K-5), Middle (Grades 6-8), Secondary (High School, Grades 9-12)
Content Area: Art, History
Crazy Quilt Collage Design

Late-Victorian aesthetic is explored in this 1-2 class period lesson plan.
Level: Elementary (Grades K-5), Middle (Grades 6-8)
Content Area: Art
Design a Local Quilting Pattern

Students will create a quilting design based on local history and landmarks, thus understanding how quilters incorporated their environment into their quilt designs as they understand the process and skill of quilting.
Level: Elementary (Grades K-5), Middle (Grades 6-8)
Content Area: Art
Dye Sample Journal
Hansen, Jada

Chemistry, art, and art history topics are explored in this two class period lesson plan project.
Level: Secondary (High School, Grades 9-12)
Content Area: Art, Science
Hexagon Quilt Top Design

Hexagons are explored in this 1 class period lesson plan.
Level: Elementary (Grades K-5), Middle (Grades 6-8)
Content Area: Art, Mathematics
Keeping Us in Stitches Activity: Interviewing a Quilter
Illinois State Museum

This project will help the students understand the process of quilting and the interview process of choosing questions and summarizing answers in written form. Students will be able to formulate questions to find out information from someone about the process of quilting, based on the information in the quilt unit online, links, and resources and summarize the answers to questions of his/her interview in narrative form.
Level: Middle (Grades 6-8), Secondary (High School, Grades 9-12)
Content Area: Art, History
Download: 3-98-36-1140-ks_interview.pdf
Prairie Quilt Activity

Prairies are explored in this 2 or more class period lesson plan.
Level: Elementary (Grades K-5), Middle (Grades 6-8)
Content Area: Art
Quilt Around the World
Campiteli, Polie

Non-U.S. countries are explored in this 3 day lesson plan.
Level: Secondary (High School, Grades 9-12)
Content Area: Art
Quilt Dilations
Bates, Kristine

Mathematics is explored in this 1-2 class period lesson plan.
Level: Middle (Grades 6-8)
Content Area: Mathematics
Quilt Squares
Davis, Denise

Civics and economics are explored in this 1-2 class period lesson plan.
Level: Secondary (High School, Grades 9-12)
Content Area: Citizenship & Values, History
Quilts as Inspiration for Apparel Design
Helvenston Gray, Sally

This lesson plan explores quilts that can be influential in Apparel Design.
Level: Post-Secondary (College or University)
Content Area: Art
Social Justice Quilt
Gargano, Joel

Social Justice is explored in this lesson plan.
Level: Secondary (High School, Grades 9-12)
Content Area: Art
Texture Quilt
Bates, Amanda Sue

Paper collage is explored in this 2-3 class period lesson plan.
Level: Secondary (High School, Grades 9-12)
Content Area: Art
Whole Cloth Quilt Design

This lesson plan helps students in understanding how decorative motifs used on one type of object can be adapted for use on another object.
Level: Middle (Grades 6-8), Secondary (High School, Grades 9-12)
Content Area: Art