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Ideas for using this trunk with different ages and with youth groups.
This trunk correlates with the 2004 Kansas Standards for History and Government; Economics and Geography in the following areas:
Kindergarten
History, Benchmark 4, Indicator 1: The student places events in sequential order.
- "How to Make a Quilt" activity.
History, Benchmark 4, Indicator 3: The student scans historic photographs to gain information.
- Adapt lessons using historic photos - Lesson 7: The Importance of Learning to Sew and Lesson 11: Cooperative Quiltmaking and Aesthetics.
History, Benchmark 4, Indicator 4: The student asks questions, shares information, and discusses ideas about the past.
- The contents of the trunk - photographs, interactives, and content material.
First Grade
History, Benchmark 2, Indicator 5: The student identifies types of shelter used by early Kansas families (e.g., dugouts, sod houses, log cabins, frame houses).
- Adapt Lesson 3: Packing the Wagon Train using photographs of soddie and dugout.
Second Grade
History, Benchmark 2, Indicator 2: The student contrasts daily life of an historic Plains Indian family, a pioneer family, and a modern family in Kansas.
- Use contents of this trunk and content information from Lesson 2: Our Patchwork Past: A Story of Quilts in Kansas History and Lessson 3: Packing the Wagon Train to talk about daily life of pioneer families.
History, Benchmark 4, Indicator 2: The student locates information using both primary and secondary sources.
- Adapt lessons and content information to use the primary sources included (historic photographs, immigrant guide excerpts, diary excerpts, Montgomery Ward Catalog pages).
Girl Scouts
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Trunk Correlation |
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Daisy Scouts |
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Life Takes Shape |
Lesson 8: Quilt Pattern Names -- Explore shapes and how they can be put together in different ways to form patterns, quilt blocks, and quilts. |
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Brownie Scouts |
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Stitch It Together |
Lesson 1: What is a Quilt?
Lesson 8: Quilt Pattern Names
Lesson 9: Quilts as Recycling
Lesson 11: Cooperative Quiltmaking and Aesthetics
Lesson 15: Sewing a Quilt Block
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Junior Scouts |
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"Doing" Hobbies
4. Hobbies in the Past |
Entire Trunk
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Yarn and Fabric Arts
9. Fabrics of the Past |
Entire Trunk
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Studio B Scouts |
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Folk Arts
Technology 1 - Make a quilt from start to finish. |
Entire Trunk
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Textile Arts
Skill Builders 5 - Quiltmaking is a craft that has a long history and is enjoying a revival.
Technology 4 - Select a craft or skill that involves textiles and find out more about production methods or tools. |
Entire Trunk
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Women Through Time
Technology 4 - Learn a skill, domestic art, or craft practiced
by women in earlier times but replaced by technology and busy
lifestyles such as quilting. |
Entire Trunk
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4-H - Fiber Arts Project: Patchwork and Quilting
Use the Kansas Women and Their Quilts traveling
resource trunk as an introduction to quilts and quiltmaking, to learn
about how quilts help to tell the story of Kansas, to explore the connection
between quilts and recycling, to examine pattern and shape through quilts,
and much more.
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