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Stories in quilts

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A lesson plan for Grades K–2 Visual Arts Education

Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

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K–2
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National Endowment for the Humanities

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This lesson explores the history and culture of quilt-making. Quilts can be works of art as well as tell stories through pictures. Quilts tell stories that reflect the lives of the people who create them, and they record the cultural history of a particular place and time.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 1

  • Goal 3: The learner will organize the components of a work into a cohesive whole through knowledge of organizational principles of design and art elements.
    • Objective 3.03: Recognize that pattern is created by repetition and uses pattern in own artwork.
  • Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
    • Objective 5.01: Recognize that art from other times and cultures does not look the same.
    • Objective 5.02: Recognize that artwork from many cultures can be made of material that the student has experienced (wood, stone, paint, etc.)

Grade 2

  • Goal 3: The learner will organize the components of a work into a cohesive whole through knowledge of organizational principles of design and art elements.
  • Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
    • Objective 5.04: Become aware of the ideas of time and history (what came before and after).
    • Objective 5.07: Discuss common themes such as families, community life, and beauty.
  • Goal 6: The learner will reflect upon and assess the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others.
    • Objective 6.01: Begin to understand that the purpose for a work of art affects how a work is made.
    • Objective 6.02: Find diversity in art as a natural and positive expression of individuality.
    • Objective 6.03: Value art that does not rely on copying or tracing others' work.

Kindergarten

  • Goal 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
    • Objective 5.01: Recognize that people in many times and places have made art.
    • Objective 5.02: Recognize that art is created to fulfill personal and/or societal needs or purposes.
    • Objective 5.03: Recognize that an artwork may serve functional purposes.
    • Objective 5.04: Begin to relate to the concept of time personally ("when my grandfather was young?"), to famous people ("when George Washington was alive?"), and units of time (day, week, years).
    • Objective 5.05: Recognize that human beings create art to tell a story about their ideas and lives without words.