Using Quilts & the Quilt Index in Teaching: Educational Rationale

Please consider reading our Educational Rationale, a letter to educators on the value of using the Quilt Index in the classroom.

Lesson Plans

Lesson Plans

This page includes quilt-related lesson plans from the Illinois State Museum, lesson plans from the Library of Congress' American Memory project, and lesson plans created especially for the Quilt Index by art education interns in a graduate course at Michigan State University.

For K-12 Teachers

Quilt Index Lesson Plan Template

A template for creating lesson plans using quilts found on the Index.

K-12 Content Standards

On the K-12 Content Standards page, you can find both national (U.S.) and state-specific content benchmarks in the visual arts and social studies. If your state's K-12 benchmarks do not appear on the page, please help us by adding them!

Textile Resources for Teachers from the Victoria & Albert Museum

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/teachers-resource-textiles/

Quilts and Literature

Quilt-related fiction for use in high school or college lit. classes.

Quilts and Mathematics

Making a Star Quilt unit
http://www.archive.org/details/modelteachin2010mont

For Social Studies Teachers

See: Bennett, Linda. "Elementary Students Quilting through Social Studies." The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2008, pp. 90-99.

Glossary of Quilt-Related Terms

From PBS. http://www.pbs.org/americaquilts/resources/glossaryA_E.html

See also PBS' The Art of Quilting website: http://www.pbs.org/americaquilts/index.html

Bibliography

See http://www.booksandoldlace.com/quilting/StateQuiltHistoryBibliography.htm for a rather comprehensive bibliography of works in quilt history.

QI Learning Games

Games and Fun Stuff

Educational games that help you and your students learn with the Quilt Index. Includes the popular Quilt Index Scavenger Hunt and Michigan Quilt Scavenger Hunt.

For Doctoral Students in Quilt Studies

Recent Dissertations in Quilt History

Dissertations on topics in quilt history submitted in the past ten years.

Comprehensive Exam Reading List in Quilt Studies

This was my comprehensive exam reading list in the field of quilt studies for the PhD in American Studies at Michigan State University in 2009. --Amanda.sikarskie 15:58, 9 August 2010 (UTC)