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Family and friendship 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
Provider
National Endowment for the Humanities

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In this EDSITEment lesson, students recognize how people of different cultures and time periods have used cloth-based art forms to pass down their traditions and history. Quilting continues to be largely a home-based form of art, primarily engaged in by women. This lesson will heighten students' awareness of how quilts have reflected and continue to reflect the lives of the people who create them, and of how quilts record the cultural history of a particular place and time.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Visual Arts Education (2001)

Grade 1

  • 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 5: The learner will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
    • Objective 5.03: Identify selected medium/techniques or processes used for an individual artwork.
    • Objective 5.05: Begin to realize that there have been diverse cultures in the world and each culture has produced art.
    • Objective 5.07: Discuss common themes such as families, community life, and beauty.

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.