The Keeping Quilt
Quilting Across the Curriculum
TeachNet Unit
Lesson 6 Design An Edible Quilt Square
Instructional Objectives: Students will:
Design a quilt square using edible materials.
Describe and compare the attributes of plane and solid geometric figures and use their understanding to show relationships and solve problems.
Identify, describe, and classify polygons (including pentagons, hexagons, and octagons).
Identify attributes of triangles (e.g., two equal sides for the isosceles triangle, three equal sides for the equilateral triangle, right angle for the right triangle).
Identify attributes of quadrilaterals (e.g., parallel sides for the parallelogram, right angles for the rectangle, equal sides and right angles for the square).
Time Required: 50 minutes
Advance Preparation: Gather all materials ahead of time. You may want to call parent volunteers to help pass out supplies and help with clean up.
Materials: digital camera, raisins, peanut butter, cream cheese, marshmallow cream, jellies, dried fruit, candy sprinkles, bread slices with the crust removed, software to create a web page or text document.
Vocabulary: template, quilt square, triangle, rectangle, square
Activity: Make Edible Quilt Squares
Students will use the edible materials to create a quilt square. See the Edible Quilt Activity
Take photographs of individual quilt squares. Then make a web page or text document to display your class quilt squares. Use the table function to easily insert your digital photographs into a quilt shaped design. Add the appropriate number of rows and columns for your photographs. Insert your photos and they will look like a quilt.
Extension:
Have students participate in the Interactive Cyberquilt Project. This is a virtual quilt where kids can draw a design and e-mail it to be put into a quilt by Mr. Patch.
http://smfc.k12.ca.us/technology/mrpatch/index.html
Students can also make a Nine Patch Quilt Cake. Directions are given at:
http://homebaking.org/familyfun/second_grade_2003.htm
Evaluation:
Students can do a self-evaluation of their quilt square. The quilt squares can be eaten when all of them have been photographed.
See a Virtual Edible Quilt Student work sample.