A Stitch In Time

  • Guiding Questions: How do students learn from historical events and apply the insight and skills gathered to  current themes and issues?

  • Illinois Learning Standards:
    • read a wide range of print and non-print
    • conduct research on interests and issues
    • use a variety of technological and information resources to gather and synthesize information, and to create and communicate knowledge
    • use mathematics as problem solving
    • use mathematics as reasoning
    • make mathematical connections
    • explore patterns and relationships
    • study geometry
    • use maps and other geographic representations
    • explore the history of students' own state and region
    • exposure to the history of many peoples and cultures
Reading About the Undergound Railroad
Text and Explanation of "Follow the Drinking Gourd"

Threads of Freedom
The Story of Harriet Tubman

Children Making Freedom Quilts
Biography of Sojourner Truth


Music and Movies
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Oh Freedom [MOV sound file]

African American Quilting [QuickTime movie file]
Deep River [MOV sound file]

Pioneer Quilting [QuickTime movie file]
Free At Last [WAV sound file]

Modern Quilting [QuickTime movie file]



Worksheets
Slavery Quiz

Railroad Wordsearch
Steps to Make a Quilt Sampler

Train Maze


Activities
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African Quilting Traditions

A Stitch In Time (Many activities to do)
Solving the Secret Quilt Codes

 


Virtual Field Trip
Take a Trip on the Underground Railroad
 
 
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