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1. Creek Wannabegon - Quilts by Pat Courtney - Sewing Info
Sewing Info I am not going to say how many sewing machines I own, but since I got my Pfaff, I do all my sewing on it. Mainly, I quilt and do free motion embroidery. Occasionally I might even sew something. Just to show that I can use my machine to some degree of competence, here is a snowflake I made: SNOW...

2. Puppets (Soft Sculpture) Art
Vision View the standards Return _ Unit/Lesson Plan _ Puppets (Soft Sculpture) Art Description This unit involves art, English and home economics (sewing) classes. The English classes write the dialog for multiple plays including character, props, set descriptions. The art classes design characters from the descriptions given. The art students construct the puppets from fabric with the assistance of the sewing classes. Goal/Standard/Level/Benchmark 2...

3. Fabric Collage
...essional Additional _ Resources Development Links _ _ Learning Experience/Unit _ _ Printer Friendly Version Send to a Friend _ _ Fabric Collage _ _ Learning Context/ Introduction: This experience helps students acquire the skills needed to maintain their clothing. The student will learn simple hand sewing techniques to repair clothing using various stitches and techniques for sewing a button to fabric. The students will be making a fabric collage using knowledge gained about proper use of hand stitches and application of buttons. This topic will help to develop the student's ability to utilize simple...

4. BC Education - Textile Studies: Home Economics 11 and 12
...a guest speaker to demonstrate colour draping or colour use in decorating. Then have each student plan a colour co-ordinated wardrobe or apartment. Demonstrate several techniques that add textural interest to fabric (e.g., machine and hand embroidery, appliqué, quilting, tucking, smocking, heirloom sewing). Invite students to use one or more of these techniques in their projects. Ask them to create scrapbooks illustrating the textures used in the design of items such as tuxedo shirts, lingerie, and vests. Suggest that students design personal logos, freehand or using computer software, to illustrate...

5. Understanding Fractions
...Chicago, Illinois 60615 538-7348 Objective: Students will be able to recognize and understand equal fractions in relationship to a whole unit. Materials Needed: Construction Paper (cut into strips of equal widths and lengths) Paper clips Pen (preferably black) Cookbooks (for recipes) Patterns (for sewing) Scissors Various fruits (cut into fractional parts, which may be shared with the students at the end of this activity) Recommended Strategy: Discuss with the students the fact that fractions are a part of their daily lives. Elicit from the students some of these areas. The students should tell you...

6. Barbara J. Baker - Doolittle West School
.... Baker Doolittle West School 5431 S. Dorchester Ave, 2 521 East 35th Street CHICAGO IL 60615 CHICAGO IL 60615 (773) 535-1050 Objective(s): This lesson is designed for second grade level students. Conduct simple experiments and observations and explain what was discovered. Designing a magnet from a sewing needle. Making a compass. Understanding the vocabulary terms. Materials Needed: Magnets, sewing needles, cheerios cereal, nails or screws paperclips, hair pins, sand, water, paper cups, large container, cork, contrasting paper towel to place the sand on for example, if you use white sand, use a brow...

7. American Flag
...are 50 states. Materials: visuals construction paper glue scissors Procedure: Anticipatory Set: Ask the students if they recognize the American Flag. Ask the students what the flag means to them. Tell the students that they will be learning about the American Flag and the woman who was in charge of sewing the first official American Flag. Also, tell the students that they will be making their own flags at the end of the lesson. Continuation of Lesson: Begin by teaching the meaning of the stars and stripes to the students. Explain that the stars stand for the 50 states; show a visual of the 50 states...

8. EconEdLink | NetNewsLine | The Economics of Income: If You're So Smart, Why Arent You Rich?
...s lesson is to help you explore the relationship between education and income. Income is earned from one's resources. Those resources might be natural resources (oil field, farm land), capital resources (man-made resources that are used in the production of goods and services: computers, factories, sewing machines), entrepreneurship (the ability to organize the other factors to produce goods or services or labor.) Most people earn their income by selling their labor. The lesson will focus on the following question: "Why do some people earn more income from their labor than others?" If You're So The R...

9. Quilt Block Design and Construction
Vision View the standards Return _ Unit/Lesson Plan _ Quilt Block Design and Construction Description The purpose of this lesson is to give applied and practical experiences in quilt design, introduce how color affects human emotion and advanced sewing construction techniques. The goal of this lesson is to apply previously learned math skills in fractions, introduce what affect color has on human emotions and to use these to create a crib/lap size quilt. The length of this unit would be 3 hours class instruction and 7 to 10 hours lab time Goal/Sta...

10. The Community Discovered - The Fabric of Our Lives
...ation Information Visual Arts Teacher Objectives The teacher will provide an opportunity for the students to work with an artist. The students will be making their own Read the grant quilt squares. abstract, goals, and other background Visual Arts Content Objectives information. The learner will be sewing a quilt square The learner will learn the different types of stitches and the different types of appliques. CD Eval Team Evaluation Team Instructional Outline Website Website Day 1 The teacher will provide time for the students to look at View surveys, sample quilts and sewing techniques. data, and...